Writing about Culture: Appropriate or Appropriation?

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!

2022 American Indian Film Festival

Celebrating its 47th annual November 4 - 12, 2022, the San Francisco based festival has become a trusted guide to contemporary Native American life. A reliable, celebratory and empowering event, the Festival’s array of programs – films, workshops, receptions, awards show – work to replace stereotypes with authentic representations of Native traditions, history and present-day…

Native American Youth Conference

The conference is for 6th-12th grade Native American students and will be taking place in-person at Fresno State. For more information, please call (559) 278-4430

2022 Ridgecrest Pow Wow & Petroglyph Festival

Located at Leroy Jackson Park, Ridgecrest, CA, 93555 All drums and dancers welcome. Head staff: host drum- Bear Springs; MC- Glen Begay, Navajo; arena director- Dean Webster, Ojibwe & Oneida; headman Robert Piper, Paiute; headwoman- Aurora Toledo, Paiute & Shoshone. For more information please contact Pete Whitehorse at phone 760-953-7010.

Juncus and Pine Needle Basket Class

Hosted by Barona Museum Class fee $35.00 Please call (619) 443-7003 x 219 for more information or to reserve your spot

CINC Gathering Under the Stars

Hosted by California Indian Nations College Located at UCR Palm Desert, 75080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211 For more information, please contact RMariano@CINCollege.org or (760) 834-0593

Indigenous Red Market

Located at 3050 International Blvd, Oakland CA For more information, please contact NoahG@Nativehealth.org

Walking Shield’s 10th Annual Charity Golf Tournament

All proceeds support the American Indian College Access Program Taking place at Native Oaks Golf Club, 14616 Wood Valley Road Valley Center CA For more information, please call (657) 900-2197   Not a golfer? There are other ways to participate: -        Donate merchandise or items for our silent auction or opportunity drawing -        Donate wicker baskets to…

Native Jam Night

Come out and groove as we celebrate Native Heritage Month with our Native Jam Night lineup featuring, Cahuilla Birdsingers, Mato Wayuhi, Frank Waln, and Audiopharmacy. Located at The Barn 1500 West Campus Drive Riverside, CA 92507  

Native Comedy Night at Mills College

Featuring Tai Leclaire writer & actor on Rutherford Falls; Siena East, writer on Clone High, and host Jackie Keliiaa Comedy Central and Team Coco Located at Lisser Hall, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Boulevard Oakland, CA 94613 For more information, click here

CANCELED – Joshua Tree Writers Festival

This event will be a celebration of writers, books, readers, and ideas inspired by our deserts and Joshua Tree National Park. Writers Ruth Nolan and Claire Vaye Watkins will be key note panelists along with a impressive group of writers who will read from their works. These writers include Caryn Davidson, Susan Rukeyser, Rahsaan Diaz,…

16th Annual LA Skins Fest

The prestigious LA Skins Fest ranks among the country’s best film festivals and is an annual gathering for film industry insiders, cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers, and critics. The LA Skins Fest is considered a major launching ground for Indian Country’s most talked about films. Founded in 2007, the LA Skins Fest, presented in the historic TCL…

California Truth & Healing Council Quarterly Meeting

Join the California Truth & Healing Council for its November 2022 quarterly meeting in San Bernardino/Riverside! (Hybrid) For more information and to register, click here  

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…

Cabazon XXXIX Indio Pow Wow

The 39th annual celebration includes Native American dance contests for all ages, bird singing, and drum contests. A wide variety of traditional Native American food, hand-crafted jewelry, dream catchers, and other arts and crafts will also be available. This is a drug and alcohol free event. Event Schedule Friday, Nov. 25: 5 p.m., gates open; 5 p.m.,…

2022 Los Angeles Pow Wow

Located at Yaagna Village, Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave. LA CA 90012 For more information, please email lapowwow@uaii.org

‘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,…

2022 OJJDP Tribal Youth National Conference

The conference offers opportunities for OJJDP-funded Tribal Youth Programs, Juvenile Healing to Wellness Courts, federally recognized Tribes, as well as Tribal and non-Tribal youth-serving organizations to discuss issues related to Tribal youth. The event promotes peer learning opportunities and positive youth development prevention and intervention approaches that can be implemented and sustained within Tribal communities.…

Pechanga Pow Wow

Located at Pechanga Resort Casino 45000 Pechanga Parkway Temecula CA 92589   For more information, please email powwow@pechanga.com or call (877) 711-2WIN

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