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Chicago Indian Village
AbbreviationCIV
PredecessorNative American Committee (NAC)
Formation1970; 54 years ago (1970)
FounderMichael Chosa
Founded atChicago, Illinois
Dissolved1972
Typeadvocacy organization
PurposeAffordable Housing, Native American civil rights, Native American self-determination
Location
  • Wrigleyville neighborhood, Chicago
    Belmont Harbor Nike missile site, Des Plaines, Illinois
    Big Bend Lake
    Camp Seager (Naperville, Illinois)
    others
Region
US Midwest
ServicesNative American housing advocacy
Methodsoccupation, protest
Key people
Michael Chosa, Carol Warrington

The Chicago Indian Village (CIV) was a short-lived American Indian affordable-housing protest group in and around Chicago, Illinois, in 1971–1972 that worked to raise awareness of and remedy poor living conditions for Native Americans in the Chicago area.[1]

  1. ^ LaGrand 2002, p. 230.

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