For the past 20 years, the American Indian Cultural Center , a nonprofit that fosters Indigenous community and culture in San Francisco, has collaborated with City Hall to plan the annual Native American Heritage Night event held in November.

But on Sept. 22, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office told the cultural center that last year was it. The cultural center will no longer lead the celebrations, a mayoral staffer told the group. Instead, the event will be planned by a dedicated committee and “co-facilitated by representatives from the Mayor’s Office and City staff.”

“The City envisions a long-term framework in which community-based organizations take the lead in organizing these events,” Moisés Garcia, the mayor’s community liaison, wrote in an email to April McGill, the executive director

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