• 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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