Events
Tending the Land Coachella Valley
The Native American Land Conservancy (NALC) invites you to Tend the Land with us, a volunteer program that encourages community to care for the landscape through the removal of invasive vegetation, trash, and more while learning about the cultural heritage, plants and wildlife of traditional Native lands from NALC staff. January’s Tending the Land event…
New Year NDN Arts Market
Indigenous Women Rising, NDN Girls Book Club, and The Ruby are proud to present a celebration of Indigenous Women and Non-Binary arts and literature! There will be: Poetry Readings Free books by Native writers! Food Merch Special Guests! More event details: Proof of vaccination is required. Masks are encouraged. This event has a suggested donation. No one denied…
Celebrating Civil Rights Heroes
“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…
INC Powwow 2024 SAVE THE DATE!
Understanding the Realities of Native Students and Families: Introduction to California Indian History
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
Singing The Birds 2024
Singing The Birds presented by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Singing, dancing, food, vendors and exhibitors. Free admission.
Stop Oro Cruz Mining Project Kwanamii Spirit Run and Traditional Ribbon Dress Gourd & Tin Can Singing Gathering
Stand up against the Oro Cruz Mining Project and join the Quechan tribe on January 27 for a Spiritual Run and Singing Gathering! The Kwanamii Spirit Run honors the resilient pride of the Quechan People. For more information, please call (928)210-0114
Fundraiser for 2024 Peace and Dignity Journeys: Silent Auction, Music, Food and Raffles
We are excited for our first Fundraising event for the 2024 Journeys! You are all invited! Silent auction, live music, tacos, and amazing raffle items ☺️ RSVP link in bio + Venmo link for the suggested $13 donation. You are welcome to donate as much as you’d like, please use the 🏃🏽♀️ emoji.
Founder’s Exhibit Community Input
Stop by Business hours in February. Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm
26th Annual Wildhorse Powwow
Free Admission! All Drums and Dancers Welcome! February 3 -4, 2024 Saturday 11 AM - 9 PM, Grand Entry at Noon Sunday 11 AM - 6 PM, Grand Entry at Noon Head Staff MC: Arlie Neskahi (Dine) Head Man: Jacob Pratt (Dakota/Ojibway) Head Woman: Nanabah Kadenehii (Dine) Host Drum: Sorrel Rider (Siksika Nation) Alberta,…
Peace and Dignity Journeys Bay Area Presents: La Candelaria Boutique
We have another fundraising event coming up in San Pancho Come shop at our first la candelaria boutique offering gently worn tradicional and vintage clothing, accessories, books, art and more! We will have danza prayer to open up the event, DJ’s spinning vinyl, and homemade tamales with lots of love!
21st Father’s Day Pow Wow by the Sea
21st annual Imperial beach Father’s Day powwow. June 15th and 16th. Everyone Welcome. For more information please contact: grassdancer7@yahoo.com www.oneworldbridge.org Vendor Coordinator: Chuck Cadott (619) 929 2875
Inaugural Conversations: Basket Starts
A conversation about basketry with basket weavers Rose Ann Hamilton (Cahuilla), Jeanette Saubel (Agua Caliente), and Brianna Duran (Agua Caliente), and experience the new building with Agua Caliente Cultural Museum Executive Director, Steven Karr, Ph.D., to learn about the expressive architectural design and its connection to Cahuilla basketry. Short walkthroughs will take place directly before the talk, calling attention to the…
Mercedes Dorame: Where Sky Touches Water
Mercedes Dorame's exhibition, "Where Sky Touches Water” brings together a collection of new and recent work, combining photography and sculpture to explore the profound beauty of our natural world. Dorame's lens captures the vibrant tapestry of our Native ecology and its elusive peripheries, inviting reflection on the delicate balance between the familiar and what lies…
Water Ceremony
Hello BAAITS community! We are excited to keep sharing information for our week of events. Our next event will be our Water Ceremony for Uniting Resiliency. This will happen on Baker Beach, Thurs Feb 8, 1-4pm, Join us for this special Water Ceremony, lead by Two Spirit IndigeQueer community. We welcome folks from out of…
BAAITS 13th Annual Two Spirit Pow Wow
BAAITS 13th Annual Two Spirit Pow Wow! Commemorating BAAITS 25th Anniversary! Saturday February 10, 2024 Fort Mason Festival Pavillion, San Francisco
Second Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Summit & Day of Action
Alongside the Yurok Tribe, Wilton Rancheria is humbled to host the 2024 MMIP Summit and Day of Action in Sacramento next month. The purpose of the event is to bring Tribal, state, and local elected leaders and law enforcement together with families affected by the MMIP crisis to raise awareness and work together toward substantive…
Special Pop-Up Book Event with Malcolm Margolin and Deborah Miranda
Please join us for a special pop-up book event with California I CAN's own Malcolm Margolln and our spectacular guest - California Indian poet and author Deborah Miranda (Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen), author of Bad Indians (Heyday 2012), now available in a special 10th Anniversary edition. TOMORROW EVENING! Monday Feburary 12th at 6:00 PM, at the Earth Island Instiute in the David…
Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Weavers and their Legacies
More than 140 Cahuilla baskets are housed at the Benton Museum of Art, and though they are aesthetically beautiful—which is part of what makes them art—they are not merely museum “specimens.” Rather, they represent the continuous relationships that Cahuilla people have with their traditions, ancestral knowledge, lands, and one another. Many of the Cahuilla baskets…
Ipai Hellya/2Spirit & Indigiqueer Resilience
Join 'ataaxum Pomkwaan, @unitedataaxum.yc and @jreynoso25 ( @thequeersol ) at a workshop on Ipai Hellyaa, Two Spirit & IndigeQueer Resilience. "Ipai Hellyaa" (ee-pye shlah) means Moon People in the Kumeyaay language, and according to Juan Reynoso “in a modern context, it means genderqueer, gender expansive and anything that exists outside of the binary." We will be learning more about what…
Artist Talk with Gerald Clarke Jr. and Emily Clarke
Artist Talk with Gerald Clarke Jr. and Emily Clarke Thursday, February 15, 2024 | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm Artist talk with Gerald Clarke Jr. and Emily Clarke followed by a reception for Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Makers and their Legacies. Details coming soon. Gerald Clarke is an enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians and lives on the…
Original Stories: California’s First Voices
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…
41st Annual UCR Pow Wow
May 24-26, 2024 University of California Riverside. Riverside Sports Complex: 1000 W. Blaine St. Riverside, Ca, 92507 Parking in Lot 26 *Admission is Free & Open to the Public* All Dancers, Drums, and Bird Singers Welcome
4th Annual Native & Indigenous Research Symposium
The Native & Indigenous Research & Arts Symposium (NIRAS) serves as an academic space to uplift diverse Native and Indigenous research, narratives, art, issues and knowledges. We are looking for student presenters! Submit a proposal for NIRAS by Friday, February 2nd, 2024!
Save the Date! 1st Annual Southwestern College Powwow
Community Fashion Show
GET YOUR TICKETS! Seats are limited. We will have standing room but if you’d like to reserve seats, get your tix before they’re gone. We are so excited to highlight the community through this event!
2024 DOE Tribal Clean Energy Summit & Tribal Listening Session
Tribes Leading the Way in Clean Energy Approximately every two years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy along with other DOE offices convenes Tribal Leaders and energy stakeholders to exchange ideas promoting energy infrastructure development for Tribes and Tribal communities. Tribal Leaders and their subject matter experts—together with the DOE, the…
From Documentation to Revitalization: Leveraging Linguistic Research for Language Reclamation with Dr. Ray Huaute
This Monday, February 26, 2024 at 11am join us for a talk with Dr. Ray Huaute Language reclamation, as defined by Leonard (2012), is “a larger effort by a community to claim its right to speak a language and to set associated goals in response to community needs and perspectives.” This presentation examines a community-centered…
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