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can reduce life expectancy by as
much as 20 years when compared
to neighborhoods across town
(tinyurl.com/yyo48mrj).
Racism has shaped Chiloquin in
very specific ways. A small, rural
town, it's the ancestral homelands
and current administrative center of the Klamath Tribes. During
the mid-20th century, the federal
government began a campaign to
terminate many Native American
Tribes in order to assimilate them
into mainstream U.S. culture and
cancel their treaty-mandated responsibilities to support tribes with
government services. Congress
terminated the Klamath Tribes in
1954, which shrunk their reservation land from 1.8 million acres of
productive timberland to almost

nothing. Losing their land base and
the government services that were
promised to them in perpetuity was
tragic; the community continues to
feel the effects today. Though the
Klamath were reinstated as a Tribe
in 1986, their reservation is now
slightly more than 300 acres. And
being a rural community, Chiloquin experiences challenges similar
to other comparable-sized communities across the country, with no
local hospital and limited access to
medical services.

Parks as a Tool
for Health Equity
Parks and green spaces provide an
opportunity to heal, and the green
schoolyard in Chiloquin is an example of how green spaces and

A view of the Klamath Basin from the
west of Chiloquin, Oregon.

public parks can be intentionally
designed to improve community
health equity. Play structures will
be designed to encourage physical
activity, helping reduce childhood
obesity and associated diseases. In
addition, the schoolyard will heavily feature natural elements like native plants, wood-based structures
and greenhouses. In general, just
being in nature offers mental health
benefits like reduced episodes of
depression and restored mental focus. Research has even shown that
exposure to nature positively affects academic outcomes in places
where students have windows that

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