News from Native California

Reclaiming Our Stories: Live Podcast Recording
2026-06-27 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
Experience and evening of conversation, storytelling, and community as voices from the series gather to explore Indigenous histories, cultures, and futures.
Hosted and story-woven by the Honorable Victorio L. Shaw, Esq., this six-episode “Reclaiming Our Stories” series centers on Indigenous voices, leadership, and lived experiences from across California. Through conversations with tribal leaders, artists, educators, and advocates, the series explores narrative sovereignty, cultural continuity, and the power of storytelling.
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Reclaiming Our Stories invites listeners to broaden their understanding of history by engaging perspectives that are too often absent from mainstream narratives.
Featured voices in the series include Judge Abby Abinanti (Yurok), Georgiana Sanchez (Chumash, O’odham), Cristina Gonzales (Chumash), Terria Smith (Cahuilla), Cindi Alvitre (Tongva), Nicole Myers-Lim (Pomo), and Michelle Lee (Pit River, Cahuilla).

Salt + Spine Live: The State of California Cuisine
2023-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, United States
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 will be joined in conversation by three local cookbook authors: Tanya Holland, Reem Assil, and Sara Calvosa Olson. Be part of our live studio audience as we discuss their culinary and cookbook careers, the now-and-future of California cooking, and put our guests to the test in our signature game. Note: This event will be recorded and broadcast as a future episode of the Salt + Spine podcast.
Visit event website to register: Salt + Spine Live: The State of California Cuisine
Featured Speakers:
Brian Hogan Stewart is the host and creator of the award-winning cookbook podcast Salt + Spine. Brian has conducted in-depth interviews with more than 200 leading authors, chefs, and activists, including Nigella Lawson, Samin Nosrat, Jacques Pépin, Diana Henry, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Toni Tipton-Martin, Julia Turshen, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Carla Hall. His podcasting work has been recognized by the Cook Awards (via Italy’s most-read newspaper, Corriere della Sera) and the Taste Awards. Brian has been published in or quoted by The New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and, most uniquely, ESPN’s “College GameDay.” He has served as a judge for both the Good Food Awards and the International Association of Culinary Professionals’ annual awards.

Reem Assil is the author of Arabiyya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora. She is a James Beard Award Outstanding Chef nominee and the owner of Reem’s California, a nationally acclaimed bakery and restaurant with locations in Oakland and San Francisco. She was also the opening chef for Dyafa, an Arab fine-dining restaurant that was awarded a coveted Michelin Bib Gourmand in its first year. She has established herself at the intersection of food, Arab culture, and social justice. Photo by Lara Aburamadan.

Tanya Holland is the author of Tanya Holland’s California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West. She is the host of Tanya’s Kitchen Table on the Oprah Winfrey Network and the podcast Tanya’s Table. She is the author of Brown Sugar Kitchen and New Soul Cooking, was the host and soul food expert on the television series Melting Pot, and competed on the fifteenth season of Top Chef. She holds a Grande Diplôme from La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine, and is a Trustee of James Beard Foundation and Chair of Awards Committee. Photo by Aubrie Pick.
Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) is the author of “Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen”. She is a food writer and editor living in the Bay Area with her husband and two teenage sons. Her work dwells at the intersection of storytelling, Indigenous food systems, security, sovereignty, reconnection, and recipe development. Her writing has appeared in News from Native California and Edible Shasta-Butte. Visit her website at akihsara.com, and follow her on Instagram at @thefrybreadriot.

Indigenizing Education in the K-12 Classroom
2022-08-09 10:00 - 11:30 | CA
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

Place and Purpose: Live Podcast
2022-08-04 10:00 - 11:30 | CA
Greg and Obi launch their live, video-podcast from the backcountry of Sonoma Mountain produced by Wildbound Literary PR. This 12-part series will cover a vast range of topics exploring what it is to be from California. Ranging from historic policy to traditional ecological knowledge, from scientific innovation to indigenous criticism, join Greg and Obi for this first discussion and then again every month as they watch the seasons change and wrestle with themes of hope, time, and justice.
The live video-broadcast of each episode will stream on our “Place and Purpose” YouTube channel, and audio only versions will be available shortly after on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
Register at this link: https://www.placeandpurpose.live/watchlisten

Brackeen Breakdown
2022-07-22 | CA
If you want to learn more about the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act case being presented to the U.S. Supreme Court this Fall, make sure to tune in for tomorrow’s Brackeen Breakdown episode.
The next episode of the California Tribal Families Coalition’s popular web series airs tomorrow at noon.
For more information regarding the Brackeen Breakdown follow the link: http://bit.ly/ctfcbrackeen
