San Antonio's new American Indian Center opens Friday. A Native American leader says the center provides 'a sense of permanency.'
It took four decades to get here, yet already it looks as if AIT’s staff of 23 full-time employees and 20 contract workers will need a bigger space for all the organization's social service programs, health and wellness work, heritage and history projects, and cultural arts programming.
Mounted newspaper stories tell of AIT’s successes and struggles, especially those surrounding the controversial redevelopment of the Alamo, which Native Americans refer to as Mission Valero. On the center's walls, in its book, artifact and photo collections, and in its budding archives, visitors will see evidence that American Indians have been here longer than any other people, long before they led the famous Indian pueblos at the city’s five 18th-century Spanish colonial missions.
When Tap Pilam was founded in 1988, the younger Vasquez said, the community dreamed of a place where families could gather and nourish their culture and heritage, which had largely been erased from mainstream history.
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