Original Stories: California’s First Voices

The Maidu Museum is proud to present the next Night Out at the Museum program: a panel conversation between four contributors of Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance on February 17. This new book is a powerful collection that details how California’s Indigenous communities are resisting the legacies of forcible loss of land, violence, and genocide. Contributors speak on a variety of issues that affect Native California communities today while also offering urgent wisdom. The panelists include Terria Smith (Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla), Rose Soza War Soldier (Mountain Maidu/Cahuilla/Luiseño), Viola Le Beau  (Hammawi Band of the Pit River Nation; Cahuilla/Maidu/Cheyenne River Sioux descendent), and Michelle LaPena (Pit River Tribe).

After the panel conversation, there will be a book signing. Books will be available to purchase at the event. Light refreshments will be served after the program as well.

This is a free event. This program is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Inspire! Grant for Small Museums. This program is in partnership with Heyday Books.