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Honoring Ohlone Land & Spirit

Join us for a visit to Saratoga’s Montalvo Arts Center to experience “A Path Forward: Honoring Ohlone Land & Spirit.” This brand-new work includes both actual and virtual artwork in a cutting-edge com...

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Connect the Bay: Ohlone Gathering

Every year in the East Bay, indigenous Ohlone from diverse tribal communities share their living history through music, song, dance, and stories at the Gathering of Ohlone Peoples. Together, they teac...

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Two-Spirit Powwow Trailer

San Francisco nonprofit Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) has hosted the first LGBTQ-sponsored native powwow in the country since 2012. A welcoming and inclusive event, it harkens back to...

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Berkeley Breathes Life into Native Languages

The UC Berkeley Linguistics Department has led the way in the effort to document and preserve California's native languages. The Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages is a biennial w...

I'm a Burner

Trina Cunningham, a member of the Mountain Maidu tribe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, continues the wisdom of her elders about fire by teaching a small group of non-native wild land fighters...

Connect The Bay: Clapper Stick

For this Connect the Bay segment, Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Indian Canyon Mutsun) offers a song about Hummingbird while demonstrating the indigenous California instrument, the clapper stick. She reminds vi...

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Fire Stewardship with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Short Story

Amah Mutsun Tribal Chair Val Lopez and CSU Chico's Don Hankins explain the vital potential that controlled burning has, both in terms of the health of California's wildlands and its indigenous people....

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