• CANCELED – 39th Annual UCR Powwow

    UC Riverside Sports Complex 1000 W. Blaine St., Riverside, CA, United States

    Traditional Native American dancers, drum groups, bird singers, and other artists will be present, and vendors will sell food, handmade Native American jewelry, arts and crafts, and other merchandise. For more info, visit https://nasp.ucr.edu/

  • Malki Museum Virtual Kéwet Birdsinging Event

    Malki Museum is set to host a Facebook Live event featuring birdsingers from across Southern California. The museum is accepting donations at the following page - http://malkimuseum.org/donations/

  • Chaw’se Day

    Chaw’se Grinding Rock State Park 14881 Pine Grove-Volcano Rd., Pine Grove, CA, United States

    The Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians invites you to attend the annual Chaw’se Day. A weekend long celebration welcoming Spring with Native American games, cuisine, dancing, crafts and much more! Admission is free and open to the public. For more info, visit https://www.jacksoncasino.com/tribal/chaw-se-day

  • CANCELED – Annual Kewet at Malki Museum

    Malki Museum 11795 Malki Rd. Morongo Reservation, Banning, CA, United States

    Dancers and singers representing several tribes from Southern California, and many vendors in the ramada booths are Native Americans from all over the southwestern states. For more info visit http://malkimuseum.org/kewet/

  • Traditional & Medicinal Uses of Native Plants

    UC San Diego Kumeyaay Garden Collective and Intertribal Resource Center are set to present a Zoom talk on Traditional & Medicinal Uses of Native Plants. The focus will be on plants in the Southern California region. Presenter: Ami Admire (Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians), Native Connections Coordinator, Indian Health Council, Inc.

  • 39th Annual Yuba-Sutter Powwow

    Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds 442 Franklin Ave, Yuba City, CA, United States

    Free Event Public Welcome All Pow Wow Drums Welcome All Pow Wow Dancers Welcome Lots of Fun Dances American Indian Craft Vendors Opportunity Drawings Fry Bread and other Food Vendors Open Gourd at Noon Grand Entry at 1pm Contest Dancing Team Dance Drum Contest Flute Contest

  • CANCELED – 2020 California Indian Basketweavers Gathering

    Mooretown Rancheria 1 Alverda Drive, Oroville, CA, United States

    A statewide gathering of weavers, museums, public land agencies, ethnobotanists, and funders. For more info, visit https://ciba.org/ Pre-registration forms will be posted during the month of March 2020

  • CSU Los Angeles Powwow

    CSU Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Powwow, oral health and wellness fair. Free parking.

  • Parallel Words

    The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival and partners are set to host "Parallel Words" on Tuesday, June 30 on Zoom. To register, visit - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O2RcA1pOTqOj4Gxt-UeAzw

  • Toppling Mission Monuments and Mythologies: A Conference

    California Indian Scholars and Allies Respond and Reflect Registration required: https://bit.ly/cmsconference Zoom meeting ID: 375 481 4783 Speakers include Deborah Miranda (Ohlone Costanoan Esselen/Chumash), Caroline Ward-Holland (Fernandino Tataviam), Yve Chavez (Tongva), Olivia Chilcote (Luiseño, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians), Val Lopez (Amah Mutsun), Renya Ramirez (Ho-Chunk/Ojibwe), Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hoopa Valley), Stan Rodriguez…

  • CANCELED – Redbird’s Children of Many Colors Powwow

    Moorpark College 7075 Campus Rd., Moorpark, CA, United States

    Native American singing, dancing, drumming, honoring ceremonies, arts, crafts and food booths, other non profit associations, tipis, story tellers, flint knapping, traditional craft demonstrations. $2 suggested donation for parking, no admission fee. 

  • Philanthropy as Decolonizing Anti-Racist Practice

    This is a pop-up webinar hosted by Old Money New System and EPIP DC as a part of our Old Money New Systems webinar series. In this online meeting we will be learning more about Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy's (Hoopa Valley Tribe) work rooting Native Indigenous Women's rituals and customs as an opportunity to lift…

  • Medicine of the People

    Native American Student Development at UC Berkeley announces its first Summer Speaker Series event with Sage LaPena. The theme for the series is Paths to Wellness. Please RSVP for event: https://tinyurl.com/Sage-LaPena-RSVP

  • 2020 Boarding School Healing Webinar Series – Part 1: Understanding and Addressing the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools Through Examining Records

    Leading in the pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma created by the US Indian Boarding School policy, NABS was created to develop and implement a national strategy that increases public awareness and cultivates healing for the profound trauma experienced by individuals, families, communities, and Tribal Nations resulting from the U.S. adoption and implementation…

  • Santa Ysabel Annual Traditional Gathering

    Santa Ysabel Reservation 100 Schoolhouse Canyon Road, Santa Ysabel, CA, United States

    Birdsinging, dancing, horseshoe tournament, vendors, and youth activities. For more info, call 760-765-0845

  • 2020 Boarding School Healing Webinar Series – Part 2: Reviewing the Records and Histories of Indian Boarding Schools in California

    This session invites a panel of California leaders, researchers, and archivists to provide context and feedback on a variety of issues related to Indian Boarding School records, including where records might be, what types of records should be searched for, and what should be done with the records. NABS will introduce finding aides, inventories, and…

  • 2020 Boarding School Healing Webinar Series – Part 3: Sharing and Contextualizing Sherman Indian Museum

    Offering valuable context for the experiences and histories of Sherman Institute, this session features the work of the Sherman Indian Museum led by curators, Lorene Sisquoc and Amanda Wixon. Though Sherman Institute was the first off-reservation boarding school in California under the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the museum exists today as a non-federally operated entity.…

  • 2020 Colfax Indian Big Time

    Bringing together the community and sharing more of the Nisenan culture with the community - food, cultural dancers, as well as craft vendors and artisans.

  • 2020 Viejas Gathering

    Viejas Gathering Grounds 1 Viejas Grade Road, Alpine, CA, United States

    Bird singing competition, peon games, vendors. For more info, call (619) 493-5719

  • 30th Annual Sycuan Powwow

    5577 Dehesa Road

    Bird singing and dancing contests, drumming and dancing. For more info, call (619) 445-6002

  • 19th annual Running is My High

    Lakeside Park 699 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    Running is My High is a large community event hosted by Native American Health Center that includes a 5k/10k run/walk around Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland and celebrates wellness, physical and mental health, nutrition, and social connection. If you are not a runner/walker, you are still welcomed to join us to enjoy traditional Native American…

    $15.00
  • Moompetam: Native American Festival

    Aquarium of the Pacific 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA, United States

    Featuring traditional cultural crafts, storytelling, educational programs, live demonstrations, music, and dance celebrating the indigenous California maritime cultures, including Tongva, Chumash, Acjachemen, Costanoan, Luiseno, and Kumeyaay. For more info, visit http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/events/info/moompetam/

  • 20th Annual California Indian Law Conference and Awards Celebration

    California Indian Law Association is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual California Indian Law Conference and Awards Celebration will be held virtually October 15-16, 2020. During this two day conference, the California Indian legal community will gather safely via video conferencing for informative panel presentations and the honoring our 2020 Outstanding Accomplishment in California Indian…

  • Mobilizing for California Water Justice

    "Water is vital to all life on earth yet often is one of our most threatened resources. In California water issues are often publicized and misinformation is rampant. Advocacy in water protection is often informative about current threats to our water-ways, but this series will be action oriented. We will explore five steps for water…

  • The University of California Land Grab: A legacy of profit from Indigenous Land – Part 2

    Part 2: From Land-grab to Land Acknowledgement and Beyond Wide-scale U.S. higher education began in 1862 when the Morrill Act provided each state with “public” lands to sell for the establishment of university endowments. The public land-grant university movement is lauded as the first major federal funding for higher education and for making liberal and…

  • 6th Annual Native Arts Expo

    Gualala Arts Center 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, CA, United States

    "Join us as we bring together native artists, traditional and contemporary, beginning to professional. From all fields of art. Writers, poets, illustrators, painters, sculptors, weavers, beaders, musicians, graphic designers and more." For more information visit: www.ericwildergraphics.com

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