A conversation with Minerva Canto, Carlos Cortés, Yi Shun Lai, Terria Smith, James Coats, and Ellen Estilai Located at Riverside Main Library (Community Room) 3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside CA Free event with free parking!
Located at Cal Poly Pomona, BSC, URSA Major. Building 35-2611A For further information, contact Erica Ben (Diné), 909-869-3593.
Salt + Spine Live: The State of California Cuisine A Conversation with Leading Cookbook Authors Join us as we bring cookbooks to life with a live recording of the award-winning Salt + Spine podcast, which features compelling cookbook authors in conversation. For this thought-provoking episode focused on the "State of California Cuisine," host Brian Hogan Stewart…
Occidental's Community Book Program Presents: Responsibility and Reciprocal Relationships with the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation, and Land Return. Join Oxy Professor of Biology Gretchen North, Celestina Castillo, Executive Director of the Center for Community Based Learning, artist and scientist Samantha Morales Johnson, Tina Calderon, Tongva Language Committee member, Bryce Lewis-Smith, Research Assistant at UW’s Center…
“Celebrating Civil Rights Heroes,” hosted by West Hollywood Poet Laureate Jen Cheng will feature Rudy Ortega Jr., Tribal President of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, as one of the speakers on the panel about Civil Rights Leaders and coalition-building. Other speakers include Shonda Buchanan (author of Black Indian), Martha Gonzalez (Quetzal), Miya Iwataki (Little…
Register Here: 01.25.24 Understanding Realities of Native Students & Families: Intro to CA Indian History (shastacoe.org) For questions, contact Cindy Hogue, (530) 605-2503, chogue@shastacoe.org
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…
Join us for our next hybrid (on campus & zoom) event on April 26th: Engaging with Our Indigenous Community. We welcome local gallerist/tv producer/art curator Ruth-Ann Thorn; USD Alumni and Area Superintendent Dr. Gabriel Nuñez-Soria; and USD Ethnic Studies lecturer Prof. Maria José Plascencia to discuss ways we can move beyond land acknowledgements and effectively…
Leading contemporary Native artists dive into their art-making & process. In this insightful panel discussion, leading contemporary Native artists dive into what drives their art-making and process. Panelists include Sterlin Harjo (creator behind the award-winning FX series Reservation Dogs), Tommy Orange (Oakland based novelists and finalized for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize) and Danielle SeeWalker (artist, writer, activists and co-founder The Red Road Project).…
Yáamay is an anthology of Indigenous poetry, artwork, and essays specific to what is now known as Southern California. Collectively, these pieces portray the multifarious effects of colonization on Indigenous people of this area, from the California Mission system, to the traumatic assimilationist policies that are still felt today. At the same time, a focus…
Join Nat at Night for a special screening of the Indigenous-led film MAATHAAW: The Fire Within Us, and hear from director and producer Andrew Pittman as he shares about the creation of this film. The Kumeyaay people are the original stewards of the land we call home today and on which this event is hosted. For millennia,…
Join artists Carson Bates, Sage LaPena, Shanti Parks, and Jacinda Tayaba-Cordova for an engaging discussion about their artwork featured in the Momím Wené | Medicine Water exhibition. Facilitated by curator, Meyo Marrufo, the artists’ conversation will be centered around the importance of water as “good medicine.” Light refreshments and a limited number of complimentary Momím…
A 2-Day Free Family Friendly Community Event, Showcasing Indigenous Comic Authors & Artists. Presented by Indigenous Futures Institute, in collaboration with Eyaay Ahuun Foundation and University of California Humanities Research Institute. Join the organization for a celebration of Indigenous sequential art! Indigi-Con features two panels of Native artists and writers, followed by a mixer with…
Inspired by the Fire Kinship exhibition, this panel will bring together Indigenous scholars, fire practitioners, and land trust leaders to discuss the role of land conservancies in the Land Back movement. The program will highlight Indigenous-led efforts to reclaim stewardship, revitalize ancestral practices, and navigate legal pathways for land return.
Join the Fowler for a special screening and conversation centered on MAATHAAW: The Fire Within Us, an Indigenous-led documentary exploring the cultural, emotional, and scientific relationships Southern California Tribes have with the gift of fire. Featured in the exhibition Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology & Art, the film highlights the enduring resilience of Indigenous…
Learn about Morongo’s history during a Discussion on Cultural Sovereignty this Friday from 3-5pm at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center.
✨Join California Native Vote Project and The Chapter House in partnership with the Social Public Art Resource Center and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery for an evening of art, movement history and Native power. 🪶🎨 At this event there will be a FREE panel discussion on Thursday, March 19 from 6:00 pm-8:00pm that highlights the American Indian…
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