Ignite Your Fuse Experiential Luncheon: American Indian Community Housing Organization

Fuse Duluth will host a behind-the-scenes tour of The American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) and to hear from Executive Director LeAnn Littlewolf about the mission, vision and community impact of AICHO.

Created in 1993, AICHO started in a parking lot outside a social service agency with a conversation between Native community members, who asked why our community had no resources, no community spaces and no services that met our cultural needs. AICHO was created as an Indigenous response to social conditions in Duluth, MN, powered by the urban Native American community.

Today, AICHO offers an American Indian Community Center, 44 units of permanent supportive housing, a domestic violence emergency shelter, legal advocacy, a climate and cultural resiliency initiative, social enterprise activities, youth programming and an arts and culture initiative. All of their work is anchored in their mission to honor the resiliency of Indigenous people by strengthening communities and centering Indigenous values in all aspects of their work. AICHO’s philosophy is that every American Indian person deserves to live in a non-violent and non-threatening environment and has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.