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…

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