• Virtual Library Conversation

    Author Ursula Pike and Michelle LaPena in Conversation Register by clicking this link: https://sfpl-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZyeJkuqLSEKYG1yEWkbrAg    

  • Indigenizing Education in the K-12 Classroom

    Back to school webinar hosted by the Redbud Resource Group RSVP at https://www.redbudresourcegroup.org/event-details/back-to-school-native-education-event-august-9th-2022/form

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty

    Register here: https://www.redbudresourcegroup.org/event-details/understanding-and-practicing-indigenous-data-sovereignty-panel-august-10th-2022/form

  • American Indian Tourism Conference

    The Annual American Indian Tourism Conference (AITC), now celebrating its 24th anniversary, is the only national conference dedicated to growing tourism in America’s indigenous communities. Every year the conference attracts more than 300 attendees, who attend for the networking opportunities, the high-level keynote sessions, and the informative breakout sessions led by some of the leading…

  • Dr. Deborah Miranda: One Book, One University

    Hosted by The University of La Verne Located at Ann and Steve Morgan Auditorium 1950 3rd St, La Verne, CA 91750   Dr. Deborah Miranda is a Native American writer, poet, and professor. Miranda is a descendant of what are known as “Mission Indians,” indigenous peoples of many Southern California tribes who were forcibly removed…

  • Leanne Hinton’s Flutes of Fire • Culture Keeping & Language Revitalization

    Originally published in 1994, Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages, Revised and Updated is an approachable, entertaining, and informative classic on Native culture-keeping, an introduction to Native California languages that appears now in a newly expanded edition spotlighting 25 years of intervening linguistic activism keeping Indigenous voice, viewpoint, and tradition alive. Leanne will be…

  • ‘A Light to Do Shellwork By’

    Visit with Chumash poet and elder Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Learn about Georgiana's first poetry collection, 'A Light to Do Shellwork By' She’ll share her poems, her stories, her cultural memories, and her advocacy for Native languages, cultures, and sacred sites. Located at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center’s San Manuel Gathering Hall,…

  • JCGBA Lecture Series at Malki Museum

    Join the Malki Museum for our second installment of the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Lecture Series. Lectures take place bi-annually along side the publication of our Journal and highlight upcoming articles in order to bring a new voice to our journal and its contributors. The talk will discuss an example of a…

  • Speaking in Gabrielino + Patrisse Cullors

    In conjunction with the special exhibition, William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows, on view through April 9, 2023, The Broad presents an evening of programming centered on the effects of colonialism on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) literature, language, and music. Located at Oculus Hall at The Broad: 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles,…

  • California Indian Basketry Event

    Antelope Valley Indian Museum 15701 E Ave M, Lancaster, CA, United States

    Topics: Harvesting and Preparing the Plants, Weaving a Legacy, Basketry Materials, Basket Styles, Basket Types. Lucy Parker and Julia Parker - Award winning California Indian basketry artisans. Time will be reserved for answers to your questions. Lunches are provided. Signed books for all who attend at no additional cost. Space is limited to 20 participants.…

  • Voices From California Indigenous Language & Cultural revitalization: An In-Person Conversation with L. Frank and Catalina Gomes

    California Institute of Integral Studies 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Across what we now call California, Indigenous communities are fighting to protect and preserve languages, cultural practices, and ways of being. From protests to protect sacred sites, to advocacy for federal recognition and land return, the fight to tend to, relearn, and expand Indigenous cultural practices is a continuous passion-filled struggle. Join us for a…

  • San Francisco Public Library Presentation: News From Native California

    Learn about News From Native California magazine from its editor, Terria Smith. The San Francisco Public Library provides access via several databases, the online magazine platform, Flipster and in print. The current issue is on display in the 5th floor Reading Room. Presented by Terria Smith (Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla), Director of the Heyday Berkeley…

  • ThangsTaken: Rethinking Thanksgiving

    La Pena Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Our annual event challenges and reshapes the colonial “thanksgiving” narrative by celebrating native resistance through art, music, dance, ancestral knowledge, and oral storytelling. We will have a powerful lineup of cultural bearers, activists and allies advocating for land rematriation and Indigenous sovereignty locally, nationally, and globally! Please come join us. Below are the incredible speakers…

  • Informative Lecture: Unrecognized in California

    Federal Acknowledgement and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians You are invited to an informative lecture by Dr. Olivia Chilcote who will talk about her newly released book, Unrecognized in California, which tells the story of the San Luis Rey Band’s efforts to gain recognition through the Federal Acknowledgment Process. In the context…

  • K-8 Teachers’ Workshop!

    Zoom

    K-8 Educators! Hoping to integrate Indigenous perspectives into your classroom? Join Trelasa Baratta (Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians) of Redbud Resource Group for an interactive session designed to help you! Key Takeaways from this Training: Understand the purpose and practice of land acknowledgments Incorporate place-based learning rooted in local Indigenous knowledge Apply the 6 P’s of Indigenous Education to…

  • The Work of Belonging: Healing, Policy, and the Power of Native Communities

    University of Redlands Hall of Letters Room 100 150 Administration Drrive, Redlands, CA, United States

    Native Student Programs invites you to a public lecture by Virginia Hedrick (Yurok) at the University of Redlands on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025. Her talk - titled “The Work of Belonging: Healing, Policy, and the Power of Native Communities” - will focus on the intersection of public health and Native communities, as well as her…

  • 7th Annual Kevin Starr Lecture, “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873”

    University of San Francisco

    7th Annual Kevin Starr Lecture Featuring Professor Benjamin Madley and Gregg Castro A ticket is required to attend the in-person event (first come, first serve) and to view the livestream. The event is located at USF's Xavier Hall located in the Fromm Institute. Please note that the lecture/livestream start at 6:30PM and the in-person reception…

  • Sovereignty and Unacknowledged California Tribes

    San Jose State University One Washington Square, San Jose, California

    Join us for a conversation about sovereignty as it relates to California Tribes without federal recognition status. Isaac Bojorquez serves on the Native American Heritage Commission, a state agency that supports the protection of California tribal cultural resources. He is the only representative from a California tribe without federal recognition. He held several positions at…

  • “Refusing Queer Paradise”: Mãhu Pedagogies of Queer Indigenous Re-memory in Hawai’i

    UC Riverside 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA, United States

    1/26/26, 1pm-2pm Interdisciplinary Building, room 1111 Based on close readings of a queer Native Hawaiian 'zine and LGBTQ+ travel writing about Hawai'i, this talk develops the concept of "mãhu pedagogies to argue that while settler homonationalist tourism narratives enact cultural prostitution by figuring Hawai'i as a "queer paradise" absent of Native resurgence, mahu and queer…

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