Lorraine Davis shares her message to enhance Native Americans’ capability to improve life for themselves and their families through cultural preservation and social-economic education and supportive services.
When Lorraine Davis, a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota, moved to the Bismarck metro area from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux reservation over 15 years ago, she came as a single parent without a college degree, and with addiction and economic challenges in search of a better life for herself and her son.
Today, as an urban Indian leader, advocate for Native American needs and an educator of cultural competency, she initiated the 2016 Proclamation of First Nations Day for the city of Bismarck, which holds the largest urban Native American population in ND. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Native American Development Center, a 501c3 nonprofit corporation launched in January of 2014 to better serve Native Americans in North Dakota. She wants to enhance Native Americans’ capability to improve life for themselves and their families through cultural preservation and social-economic education and supportive services.
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