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Celebrate Kumeyaay New Year!
San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park 15808 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA, United StatesMoompetam American Indian Festival
Aquarium of the Pacific 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA, United StatesIn celebration of the local American Indian cultures, the Aquarium of the Pacific will host its twentieth annual Moompetam American Indian Festival. You are invited to join the Aquarium of the Pacific for its twentieth annual Moompetam American Indian Festival. This celebration features traditional cultural craft demonstrations, storytelling, music, and dance. The festival celebrates indigenous…
Tule Boat Build
Kumeyaay Community College 910 Willow Glen Dr., El Cajon, CA, United StatesLearn to build a boat made out of Tule reed with Dr. Stan Rodriguez. A Family Friendly Event. The boats will be taken out on the ocean during KHPC's Ha'sill mataayum gathering.
California Native American Day
SDSU Manchester Hall/Native Resource Center Centennial Plaza, San Diego, CaliforniaThe center will be celebrating California Native Day on Friday, September 27th! From 12pm-1pm they'll be unveiling the third Living Land Acknowledgement statue. Project artist Johnny Bear Contreras will be joining to share more insight about the art pieces! There will be a dessert reception to follow at the NRC after the unveiling.
California Native American Day Performance
Oceanside Civic Center 300 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CaliforniaJoin the music groups to acknowledge California Native American Day 2024 at the Civic Center Courtyard. Native flute music will be performed 3-4pm by the Spiritual Wind duo featuring Mel Vernon, Captain of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, and Faustino Fredericks, a Luiseño flutist. Native blues music will be performed 4:15-5pm by…
Quiet Quail Books Storytelling
Viva la Boba 455 W. 4TH ST, SAN BERNARDINO, CaliforniaJoin the bookstore on Indigenous People’s Day this Monday Oct. 14th @ 6 pm at @vivalaboba in San Bernardino!!! There will be a reading of three children’s books by various Indigenous authors and illustrators! Including @_native_hummingbird new release this year! This will be Quiet Quail’s first story time and a beautiful sharing of some amazing…
Kumeyaay Canoe (Tule Boats) Workshop
Birch Aquarium 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, CaliforniaSaturday, Nov 23, 2024 – Indigenous Sustainable Design Forum & Kumeyaay Canoe (Tule Boats) Workshop Join the forum at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for an immersive workshop exploring the intersection of ocean sustainability and Indigenous knowledge. Build a full-sized tule reed boat with the opportunity to ride it, and engage in…
$10
Roots of Resilience Uniting Payómkawichum, Kumeyaay and Ñuu Savi Communities
Buena Vista Audubon Nature Center 2202 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside, CaliforniaOn December 14th, come to the Vista Audubon Society Wetlands Reserve, Payómkawichum territory, to experience “Returning to Our Homelands.” This project works to re-connect Indigenous young people and their families to their original Payόmkawichum homelands and territories, and is brought about through collaboration of ‘ataaxum Pomkwaan, BVAS, and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission…
Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art
Fowler Museum at UCLA 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesExhibit Runs: January 12 – July 13, 2025 @The Fowler Musuem at UCLA Mark you calendars for the upcoming exhibit Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art. It introduces fire as a generative element that connects us to our past and offers a collective path toward a sustainable future. The show presents a living…
2025 Youth & Social Pow Wow
Miramar College - Hourglass Community Field 10440 Black Mountain Rd, San Diego, CaliforniaOpen to the Community! Join for a day of Native American Traditional Drumming, Dancing, Food Vendors, Arts & Craft Vendors, and more! Schedule: 10 am Bird Singing; 11 am Open Gourd Dancing; 12 pm Grand Entry; 1-8 pm Inter-Tribal Dancing For more information, contact: carlatourville@yahoo.com
MAATHAAW: The Fire Within Us – Panel discussion and trailer screening
San Diego Natural History Museum 1788 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United StatesJoin 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,…
$23
Somos Aire Performance
Arthur Wagner Theater 2980 Theatre District Dr, San Diego, CaliforniaJoin the organization April 5th at The Arthur Wagner Theater at UC San Diego! In this borderlands steampunk fairytale, a young Latina woman returns to her hometown of San Ysidro in search of a cure that will save her sister and her community. Exploring issues of environmental justice and air quality, “Somos Aire” is a…
53rd Annual San Diego State University Powwow
Ellen Ochoa Pavillion 115 West Commons, Campanile Dr, San Diego, CaliforniaSaturday, April 12, 2025 SDSU Main Campus - TBD 11 a.m. - Gourd Dance Noon - Grand Entry 1 - 6 p.m. - Dance Exhibitions & Honorings 6 p.m. - Bird Singing 8 p.m. - Approximate End The pow wow includes dance contests, cultural displays, arts and craft booths, food vendors, and various informational booths. …
Balboa Park Powwow – Save the Date!
Balboa Park President's Way & Park Blvd, San Diego, CA, United StatesThe Annual Balboa Park Powwow will take place May 10-11, 2025, from 10 am 6 pm both days. As always, the event will be located at Park Boulevard and Presidents Way in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. As a Native American, you and your family are eligible to have a vendor’s booth at this event and the…
UC San Diego 13th Annual Powwow
UCSD Price Center Price Center, La Jolla, CaliforniaSave the Date for UCSD’s 13th Annual Powwow on Sunday May 18th, 2025! Vendors, deadline to apply is Friday April 4th. Link to apply is here: https://tinyurl.com/ucsdpowwowvendor2025 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/UCSD_ITRC Any questions can be directed to powwow@ucsd.edu
Moompetam American Indian Festival
Aquarium of the Pacific 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA, United StatesThe Aquarium of the Pacific invites you to its twenty-first annual Moompetam American Indian Festival. Moompetam (pronounced \’mohm peh tahm), meaning “People of the Ocean,” is derived from the word for ‘saltwater’ in the Tongva language. For the California Indigenous coastal peoples, the ocean has always been a sacred entity. The festival celebrates Indigenous California…
$34.95
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