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It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, President Series #271, & part of an EdUp Tribal Colleges & Universities (TCUs) Mini Series, YOUR guests are ⁠Dr. Celeste R. Townsend⁠, President, California Indian Nations College, & Manoj Patil, President, ⁠Little Priest Tribal College⁠ YOUR hosts are ⁠Dr. Erica J Moore⁠, Vice President for Indigenous Institutional Transformation, & ⁠Amber Morseau⁠⁠, Indigenous Institutional Transformation Specialist, ⁠American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)⁠ Listen in to #EdUp! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR #EdUp Team - ⁠Elvin Freytes⁠ & ⁠Dr. Joe Sallustio⁠ ● Join YOUR #EdUp community at ⁠The EdUp Experience⁠! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edup/message

Amy is joined by Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy to discuss her book We Are Dancing For You as well as the violent legacy of settler colonialism in California and how Indigenous women are reclaiming their traditions.Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. Her research is focused on Indigenous feminisms, California Indians and decolonization. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from the University of California, Davis and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Literary Research from San Diego State University. She also has her B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University. She has published in the Ecological Processes Journal, the Wicazo Sa Review, and the Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society journal. She has also published creative writing in the As/Us journal and News from Native California. She is also the author of a popular blog that explores issues of social justice, history and California Indian politics and culture.

When Joe Sanchez was 8 years old, his grandmother asked him to make a promise to never forget his California Indian heritage. She was determined to see the culture live on, after watching her brothers deny their Coast Miwok ancestry, a matter of economic survival in early 20th century California. Today, at 75, Sanchez is making good on that promise in a more ambitious way than he ever imagined: He's bought back a piece of his ancestral homeland. Reporter: Vanessa Rancaño 

Oakland's Wahpepah's Kitchen Reclaims Native Dishes Crystal Wahpepah wanted to be a chef since she was 7 years old. Like her grandfather and mother, Wahpepah is a registered member of the Kickapoo tribe of Oklahoma. She remembers learning to make fry bread with her aunty and grandmother — and picking berries with her grandfather on the Hoopa Reservation where she spent time as a child. But while growing up on Ohlone land in Oakland, Wahpepah was struck by the Bay Area's lack of Native restaurants, despite the region's large Indigenous population and palette for diverse cuisine. So she decided to change that. It wasn't just a matter of culinary representation, it was a matter of reclaiming Native food sovereignty. KQED's Bianca Taylor brings us her story as part of our ongoing series Flavor Profile, which features folks who started successful food businesses during the pandemic. Round Valley Residents Hope Pedestrian Path Saves Lives Round Valley is located in one of the farthest reaches of Eastern Mendocino County. At its center sits the small town of Covelo, a remote community way up in the hills, with Highway 162 running through the middle of town. There's no public transportation here, so locals, many of them members of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, have to walk on the highway, which has almost no shoulder. Residents have been hit and killed over the years, so the community has been pushing authorities for more than a decade to build a pedestrian path. Reporter Eileen Russell lives near Covalo and tells us what's held the project up for so long. Coast Miwok Group Buys Marin Property, a Piece of Their Ancestral Land When Joe Sanchez was 8 years old, his grandmother asked him to make a promise to never forget his California Indian heritage. He's spent his life living up to that charge, studying the history of his people and volunteering in the community. In July, he and the Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin purchased a 26-acre piece of land in the rural Marin County community of Nicasio, once Coast Miwok territory. It's believed to be the first modern “Land Back” effort in Marin County, part of a growing movement across California to get land back to the original indigenous people who lived on it. KQED's Vanessa Rancaño reports.

Rebecca Tortes (Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Assiniboine Sioux) has worked with California tribal populations for over 20 years and recently served as the executive director for the California Indian Basketweavers' Association (CIBA), a statewide nonprofit working to preserve, promote, and perpetuate California Indian basketweaving traditions.Before joining CIBA, she worked as a tribal administrator, development manager, grant writer, and community liaison for many California-based tribes and tribal nonprofits. In addition, Rebecca has worked as a private consultant to several California tribal communities in developing, funding, and evaluating programs that support California Indigenous control and protection of traditional food systems, water, languages, traditional ecological knowledge, and land.Rebecca received her Bachelor of Arts in human development and psychology and her master's degree in public administration from California State University, San Bernardino, and earned a certificate in professional advancement in philanthropy from La Sierra University.Chapters is a multi-part series concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations—including civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices that are perpetrated on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.This project was made possible with support from Chapman University and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Guest: Rebecca TortesHosts: Jon-Barrett IngelsProduced by: Past Forward

Two Japanese professors, Dr. Kumiko Noguchi and Dr. Yuka Mizutani, share insights from their experiences and work with Native American and Indigenous communities, which underscore the significance of Native American Studies in Japan and throughout the world. Noguchi is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Meiji Gakuin University. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis under the Fulbright Graduate Studies Scholarship Program. Her research interests include Native American Critical Theory, California Indian history, Tribal Sovereignty, Community Development, and Indigenous Movement.  Mizutani is a professor at the Center for Global Education and Discovery, and the Graduate Program of International Cooperation Studies, at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She holds a Ph.D. in Area Studies from Sophia University. As a doctoral student with the JSPS fellowship, she worked on her research at the Department of Ethnic Studies of the University of California, Berkeley. Mizutani was also a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Department of American Studies of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her current research interests include Indigenous people's experiences at geographical margins of the U.S. territory, the representation of Indigenous perspectives in museums and public spaces, and the relationship between Indigenous peoples and research institutions.  Recommended Sources:Publications of Kumiko Noguchi, including Indian and Gaming: American Light and Shadow (Tokyo: Chikuma Publication, 2019); A California Indian History the 'Invisibles' to a Federally Recognized Tribes (Tokyo: Sairyusha Publication, 2015); and “Keeping the Indian Tribal Community Together: Nation Building and Cultural Sovereignty in the Indian Casino Era,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies, no. 31 (2020), 133-156. Esther Avila, "Researching the Tule River Tribe," The Porterville Recorder, November 10, 2011.Rick Elkins, "Tule Tribe history in Japanese," The Porterville Recorder, September 16, 2015.Yuka Mizutani's award-winning book (selected for the Award for Budding Scholar of the Japan Consortium for Area Studies), Integration of the Pascua Yaqui into the United States: Border Crossing and the Federal Recognition (Hokkaido University Press, 2012). Also see Mizutani, "Promotion of Gastronomic Traditions in the Sonoran Desert and Changes in the Representation of the US-Mexico Borderlands," The Japanese Journal of American Studies, no. 33 (2022). Mizutani's recent interviews in English for ʻŌlelo Community Media in Hawaiʻi: http://olelo.granicus.com/player/clip/85731https://olelo.granicus.com/player/clip/85723Shozo Ssaito (斎藤省三), アメリカ先住民 アリゾナ・フェニックス・インディアン学校 (世界人権問題叢書) | Jr.トレナート ロバート.A., Trennert,Robert A.,Jr., 省三, 斎藤 |本 | 通販 | Amazon 

Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for this exclusive interview regarding Amah Mutsun Nation history, culture, traditions, traditional ecological knowledge, California Indian histories, the ongoing work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/) to heal Mother Earth within their traditional territories and protect the sacred site: Today on American Indian Airwaves, we got to the traditional lands of the Amah Muston Nation in Santa Clara County, CA where since 2015, the Nation and community member continue fighting to protect Juristac, which lies at the heart of the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun Nation, which Amah Mutsun ancestors lived and held sacred ceremonies at this location in the southern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, above the confluence of the Pajaro and San Benito rivers. Moreover, Juristac is colonially known as the Sargent Ranch and is under threat from the proposed Sargent Quarry that will impact 320 acres of traditional lands. The plan includes a 14-acre processing plant, three 200-foot-deep open pit quarry sites, a 1.6-mile-long conveyor belt, and a 30-foot-wide access road. An estimated 40 million tons of sand and gravel aggregate would be produced over the life of the mine, primarily for use in local road building and general construction. Sargent Ranch is owned by an investor group, Debt Acquisition Company of America (DACA) (https://daca4.com/), and based in San Diego, CA, is behind the proposed 320-acre open pit sand and gravel mining operation on the property. Presently, the Santa Clara County supports the project. Our guest for today, in this two-part interview, is Valentin Lopez, from the Amah Mutsun Nation and he is the Chairperson of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. He joins today to us today to discuss recent action by the Santa Clara County announcing a six-week extension of the public comment period on the draft Environmental Impact Report to comment deadline is November 7, 2022. For Protect Juristic information, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/ American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Tuesdays 11am-12pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org.

Defending land rights and preserving tribal culture is difficult for North American tribes, especially for those that do not have sovereign nation-to-nation status with the federal government. The lack of recognition of a tribe's nationhood as a self-governing entity (as defined by the U.S. Constitution) has been explicitly used as a tool to continue to prevent Native peoples from living on the most desirable lands or protecting sacred lands that have been stolen.  We talk about these issues with Corrina Gould, a celebrated leader and activist of the First Peoples of the Bay Area from the Lisjan/Ohlone tribe of Northern California. She also co-founded the grassroots organization “Indian People Organizing for Change”, which works to defend and preserve sacred Ohlone shell mounds formed over generations. Featuring Corrina Gould (Lisjan/Ohlone) is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, as well as the Co-Director for The Sogorea Te' Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area that works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Born and raised in her ancestral homeland, the territory of Huchiun, she is the mother of three and grandmother of four. Corrina has worked on preserving and protecting the sacred burial sites of her ancestors throughout the Bay Area for decades.  Resources California Indian Genocide and Resilience | 2017 Bioneers panel in which four California Indian leaders share the stories of kidnappings, mass murders, and slavery that took place under Spanish, Mexican and American colonizations — and how today's generation is dealing with the contemporary implications.  This is an episode of Indigeneity Conversations, a podcast series that features deep and engaging conversations with Native culture bearers, scholars, movement leaders, and non-Native allies on the most important issues and solutions in Indian Country. Bringing Indigenous voices to global conversations. Visit the Indigeneity Conversations homepage to learn more.  

Isabelle Legeron travels to California, a part of the world whose soil holds a complex history. She meets the indigenous Californians reviving ancestral methods of tending to the land, and the soil scientists exploring the impact of colonisation and agriculture on the soil of the Golden State. With indigenous Californian land steward Redbird (Pomo/Paiute/Wailaki/Wintu), director of the California Indian museum Nicole Lim (Pomo), indigenous ecologist Dr Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian), indigenous educator Sara Moncada (Yaqui/Irish), professor Paul Starrs (USA) and soil scientists Suzanne Pierre (India/Haiti/USA), Kenzo Esquivel (Japanese/Mexican/USA) and Yvonne Socolar (USA). Presenter: Isabelle Legeron Producer: Sasha Edye-Lindner/ Kate Bland A Cast Iron production for BBC World Service

A recent DNA analysis has found that the federally unrecognized Muwekma Ohlone Tribe has been in the Bay Area for at least 2,000 years. The evidence bolsters the tribe's decades-long case to reinstate their federal recognition which they lost, along with dozens of other California Indian tribes, in the 1920s. Tribal leaders say recognition is a necessary first step for the Muwekma Ohlone to establish a reservation. But tribal law experts say the process for gaining federal recognition is complicated and political. We'll talk about why some tribes are– or are not – recognized, what federal recognition means for them, and the current efforts from tribes such as the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe to gain recognition.

California Indians have survived some of the most extreme acts of genocide committed against Native Americans. Prior to the ongoing genocide under Spanish and American colonizations, California Indians were the most linguistically diverse and population dense First Peoples in the United States. We discuss this brutal history and survivance with Corrina Gould, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust. She is from the Lisjan/Ohlone tribe of Northern California. We talk about the importance of addressing that historical trauma, which caused deep wounds that still affect Indigenous Peoples today.   For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/california-genocide-and-resilience-with-corrina-gould/ Corrina Gould (Lisjan/Ohlone) is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, as well as the Co-Director for The Sogorea Te' Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area that works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Born and raised in her ancestral homeland, the territory of Huchiun, she is the mother of three and grandmother of four. Corrina has worked on preserving and protecting the sacred burial sites of her ancestors throughout the Bay Area for decades. This is an episode of Indigeneity Conversations, a podcast series that features deep and engaging conversations with Native culture bearers, scholars, movement leaders, and non-Native allies on the most important issues and solutions in Indian Country. Bringing Indigenous voices to global conversations. This episode's artwork features photography by Cara Romero, Co-Director of the Bioneers Indigeneity Program as well as an award winning contemporary fine art photographer. Mer Young creates the series artwork. Resources: California Indian Genocide and Resilience | 2017 Bioneers panel in which four California Indian leaders share the stories of kidnappings, mass murders, and slavery that took place under Spanish, Mexican and American colonizations — and how today's generation is dealing with the contemporary implications. Credits: Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Co-Hosts and Producers: Cara Romero and Alexis Bunten Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch Associate Producer and Program Engineer: Emily Harris Consulting Producer: Teo Grossman Studio Engineers: Brandon Pinard and Theo Badashi Tech Support: Tyson Russell

(Topic begins at 0:26:09 mark): Phil Galfond's "Run It Once Poker" site to close January 3, attempts to move to US market.... (2:07:23): Dan Bilzerian appears on Doug Polk's show for contentious interview.... (3:33:54): Nicholas Palma accusing Tim Reilly of using fake vax card for WSOP, and Negreanu now put out a $10k challenge over the matter.... (4:23:59): Flashback #1 - Druff attempted to attempt the "New Years Rockin Eve" party in the 2000s, and learned a secret about the broadcast.... (4:38:06): Flashback #2 - Huge investment firm Fidelity accidentally posted ad seen by millions in 1990 with Druff's phone number instead of theirs. What happened next?.... (4:59:30): Casino advantage player claims he was force-checked-out of MGM Springfield while gone, and $20,900 stolen from his room safe.... (5:19:04): Pokershares, the Mike McDonald site where you can bet on the results of poker pros, has shut down.... (5:36:30): Controversy hits "SlotLady", a popular female slot-playing YouTuber.... (6:57:10): Fedor Holz makes allegation of online poker collusion against Brazilian poker group.... (7:24:24): California Indian tribes and poker rooms battling each other again regarding future of gambling in state.... (7:43:56): Omicron rips through US at record infection levels, but what danger are we really in?.... khalwat co-hosts, tradershky also joins. Calls from desertrunner and 'Carmine' during the show.

(Topic begins at 0:26:09 mark): Phil Galfond's "Run It Once Poker" site to close January 3, attempts to move to US market.... (2:07:23): Dan Bilzerian appears on Doug Polk's show for contentious interview.... (3:33:54): Nicholas Palma accusing Tim Reilly of using fake vax card for WSOP, and Negreanu now put out a $10k challenge over the matter.... (4:23:59): Flashback #1 - Druff attempted to attempt the "New Years Rockin Eve" party in the 2000s, and learned a secret about the broadcast.... (4:38:06): Flashback #2 - Huge investment firm Fidelity accidentally posted ad seen by millions in 1990 with Druff's phone number instead of theirs. What happened next?.... (4:59:30): Casino advantage player claims he was force-checked-out of MGM Springfield while gone, and $20,900 stolen from his room safe.... (5:19:04): Pokershares, the Mike McDonald site where you can bet on the results of poker pros, has shut down.... (5:36:30): Controversy hits "SlotLady", a popular female slot-playing YouTuber.... (6:57:10): Fedor Holz makes allegation of online poker collusion against Brazilian poker group.... (7:24:24): California Indian tribes and poker rooms battling each other again regarding future of gambling in state.... (7:43:56): Omicron rips through US at record infection levels, but what danger are we really in?.... khalwat co-hosts, tradershky also joins. Calls from desertrunner and 'Carmine' during the show.

This short film showcases two community-engaged graduate student research projects related to California Indian baskets. Learning about basket traditions from local Yokuts basket weavers connects to an exploration of how 3D digitization of baskets can assist with cultural revitalization. These projects were funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Series: "Critically Human" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37331]

This short film showcases two community-engaged graduate student research projects related to California Indian baskets. Learning about basket traditions from local Yokuts basket weavers connects to an exploration of how 3D digitization of baskets can assist with cultural revitalization. These projects were funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Series: "Critically Human" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37331]

This short film showcases two community-engaged graduate student research projects related to California Indian baskets. Learning about basket traditions from local Yokuts basket weavers connects to an exploration of how 3D digitization of baskets can assist with cultural revitalization. These projects were funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Series: "Critically Human" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37331]

Dr. Renya Ramirez is a professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently co-principle investigator on a one million dollar critical mission studies grant from the UC office of the President. Their work, in collaboration with California Indian people is to tell the story of the California Missions from the native perspective.  SHARE. SUBSCRIBE. REVIEW!!!  

After smelling smoke from his sit spot in San Francisco, and the subsequent clean air as fall progressed, Razi remembers childhood visits to California Indian acorn grinding rocks. This episode recounts his research into the Traditional Ecological Knowledge and land management practices of California Indians that stewarded oak trees and their acorn crops. Music credits: 1. Soundscape Premium - Nature and birds 1 by MINOR2GO 2. Armando by LiddellC Relevant articles used for research: Frederica Bowcutt "Tanoak Landscapes: Tending a Native American Nut Tree," Madroño 60(2), 64-86, (1 April 2013). https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-60.2.64 Anderson, K. M., & Moratto, M. J. (1996). Native American Land-Use Practices and Ecological Impacts (Vol. 2, pp. 187-206) (United States, USGS). Davis, California: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources. https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-43/VOL_II/VII_C09.PDF Anderson, K. M. (2007). Indigenous Uses, Management, and Restoration of Oaks of the Far Western United States (Vol. Technical note No.2) (United States, USDA, NRCS). Davis, California: National Plant Center.https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/OpenNonWebContent.aspx?content=25907.wba

Wherever you are in this hemisphere, you are on Native land.  Never forget, that before the Spanish arrived in California, for thousands of years, from sea to shining sea, this was indian country, with more than 300,000 Natives living here, representing more than 100 tribes, each with its individual traditions and cultures, most completely lost by the arrival of settlers. Write that down, and burn it into your brain.   “The history of genocide casts a shadow over California. It hovers over the land of the endless summer, over Disneyland, over the surfers, the Beach Boys, the palm trees, the Hollywood Sign … and yet, there is also a story of California Indian resistance and survival that is miraculous.”  This was said by my hero, Benjamin Madley, he is an associate professor of history at UCLA and has been on a more than decade-long odyssey to document and reveal the existence of this government-sponsored genocide. The Youreka Podcast Network is literally days away from launch. You will be able to download a free app, and have all of the Network podcasts at your fingertips! Including my new shows, Here Lies, an audio tour of historic cemeteries, Rustic Rituals, affirmations and meditations for country folk, Queens of the Mines Two and MORE! Find us on Libsyn and instagram now to keep up @yourekapodcasts. That is YOUREKA, because this network is yours.  https://sarahannegraham.com

Wherever you are in this hemisphere, you are on Native land.  Never forget, that before the Spanish arrived in California, for thousands of years, from sea to shining sea, this was indian country, with more than 300,000 Natives living here, representing more than 100 tribes, each with its individual traditions and cultures, most completely lost by the arrival of settlers. Write that down, and burn it into your brain.   “The history of genocide casts a shadow over California. It hovers over the land of the endless summer, over Disneyland, over the surfers, the Beach Boys, the palm trees, the Hollywood Sign … and yet, there is also a story of California Indian resistance and survival that is miraculous.”  This was said by my hero, Benjamin Madley, he is an associate professor of history at UCLA and has been on a more than decade-long odyssey to document and reveal the existence of this government-sponsored genocide. The Youreka Podcast Network is literally days away from launch. You will be able to download a free app, and have all of the Network podcasts at your fingertips! Including my new shows, Here Lies, an audio tour of historic cemeteries, Rustic Rituals, affirmations and meditations for country folk, Queens of the Mines Two and MORE! Find us on Libsyn and instagram now to keep up @yourekapodcasts. That is YOUREKA, because this network is yours.     

Wherever you are in this hemisphere, you are on Native land.  Never forget, that before the Spanish arrived in California, for thousands of years, from sea to shining sea, this was indian country, with more than 300,000 Natives living here, representing more than 100 tribes, each with its individual traditions and cultures, most completely lost by the arrival of settlers. Write that down, and burn it into your brain. Never forget that the Russians, European-American colonists, and  Spanish missionaries' arrival on the Pacific coastline forever changed the native people’s way of life. The first known interaction with the Natives  in California was in the Monterey area in 1602, when Sebastián de Vizcaíno’s Spanish expedition was searching for a safe harbor for their  ships.  Well over 100 years then passed with little attention paid to Alta California. Then, Gaspar de Portola’s expedition of Spanish missionaries arrived in the Monterey area in 1769 and Spain began colonizing. Erasing the identities of the California indigenous people who entered the mission, in exchange, they were given a wool shirt with long sleeves called a cotón, and a wool blanket. The women were also given a wool petticoat and men received a breechclout to cover their groin area. They were then forcibly baptized into the Catholic faith, and thrown into labor camps that were filthy and disease ridden. The San Rafael Mission was established where Luis Arguello, later the first provisional governor of California and his band of Spanish soldiers led expeditions, removing Pomo people from their lands, bringing them to the new mission.  Five years down the road, California became part of the Mexican Republic, and the Mexican government gave out large tracts of Pomo land to its settlers, the  foreigner/white colonists brought deadly disease and epidemic. In one instance, a Russian ship brought a case of smallpox, the indigenous people did not have immunity to such diseases, the tribe populations heavily decreased, and the  bones of thousands “ left unburied, bleached the hills” of Sonoma and Napa counties. As all this happened, the domestic stock animals brought by the foreigners consumed all of the native foods and damaged the gathering areas while they grazed. Foods the locals depended on for survival. Stream channels were disturbed and often  re-routed, land was blasted away and huge amounts of soil entered streams and rivers, destroying the habitat of fish and other aquatic species that once were food for the indigenous people.Ten years later there was  a massive malaria outbreak, and the following year the missions were authorized by the crown to “convert” the Natives in a ten-year period. They had until 1844. They were to surrender their control over the mission’s livestock, fields, orchards and buildings to the Indians in 1844. The padres never achieved their goal and the lands and wealth were then stolen from the Natives. The California Mission System was not the romanticized fantasy we were fed in fourth grade. Debunked. Unpack that. Accept it.  “The history of genocide casts a shadow over California. It hovers over the land of the endless summer, over Disneyland, over the surfers, the Beach Boys, the palm trees, the Hollywood Sign … and yet, there is also a story of California Indian resistance and survival that is miraculous.”  This was said by my hero, Benjamin Madley, he is an associate professor of history at UCLA and has been on a more than decade-long odyssey to document and reveal the existence of this government-sponsored genocide. Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. This is the final Chapter of Season One, and this is Part One of three in the chapter,  Today, we will meet the Queen of Preservation. I am Andrea Anderson, This is a true story from America’s Largest Migration, The Gold Rush. This is Queens of the Mines. The preceding program features stories that contain adult content including violence which may be disturbing to some listeners, or secondhand listeners. So, discretion is advised.

A conversation with world's only Michelin 2 Star Indian Chef - Srijith Gopinathan.Srijith is Executive Chef at Taj Campton in San Francisco and is co-owner of a new California Indian restaurant - Ettan in downtown Palo Alto in broader San Francisco Bay Area.In an engaging chat, Srijith answer many questions includingWhat does it mean by Cal Indian Cuisine?Comparing Indian cuisine vs French CuisineIndian cuisine and flavor theory rulesCan Michelin system truly judge Indian cuisine?Experimental or Authentic Indian cuisine?Top Indian Restaurants in United StatesTop 5 Indian restaurants in the world.

(Topic begins at 0:08:30 mark): onestep calls in asking for funding for unspecified trips. (0:16:10): Ken Strauss, who showed his penis at the 2019 WSOP, given probation for last year's meltdown..... (0:39:17): Mike Matusow has meltdown on Twitch, then Twitter after getting slow-rolled by wsop.com player.... (1:04:08): Daniel Negreanu flips out on Twitch when he experiences connection issues on WSOP.com.... (1:08:58): Brandon joins as co-host and we discuss Phil Ivey and the Borgata sage finally ending.... (1:53:03): WSOP.com manager Danielle Barille getting more active on Twitter, finally responds to Druff.... (2:17:28): Ron McMillen, born in 1949, wins online bracelet event.... (2:22:08): Ryan Depaulo wins online bracelet from a Whole Foods parking lot in New Jersey.... (2:25:39): Who is foul-mouthed wsop.com player "Texasmolly"?.... (2:56:27): What happened to David "The Maven" Chicotsky?.... (3:28:09): Degenerate obtains $9 million worth of fraudulent "Paycheck Protection Program" loans so he could shoot it off in casinos.... (3:41:23): Bank of America shuts down Daniel Negreanu's business account.... (3:50:12): Nick Schulman accused of problem gambling in WSOP.com e-mail.... (4:07:40): Palazzo in Las Vegas closing hotel Monday through Thursday, until further notice.... (4:12:26): Commerce, other card rooms want California Indian casinos also shut down.... (4:32:54): California rolling back reopening in the face of high new COVID-19 case numbers.... (4:48:34): Florida sees a record 15,000 new cases in a day, but is it really worse than New York was in April?.... (4:54:17): It is possible immunity from COVID-19 may only last for a few months.... (5:02:48): Israeli firm claims it has developed major treatment to "neutralize" COVID-19 infection.... (5:19:08): Are llamas the potential answer to a COVID-19 treatment?.... (5:37:59): Man arrested at Hard Rock Lake Tahoe for refusing to leave after refusing to wear a mask.... (5:43:57): Opinion: Cancel culture really is an assault on free speech.... Co-hosting by tradershky and Brandon "Drexel" Gerson.

(Topic begins at 0:08:30 mark): onestep calls in asking for funding for unspecified trips. (0:16:10): Ken Strauss, who showed his penis at the 2019 WSOP, given probation for last year's meltdown..... (0:39:17): Mike Matusow has meltdown on Twitch, then Twitter after getting slow-rolled by wsop.com player.... (1:04:08): Daniel Negreanu flips out on Twitch when he experiences connection issues on WSOP.com.... (1:08:58): Brandon joins as co-host and we discuss Phil Ivey and the Borgata sage finally ending.... (1:53:03): WSOP.com manager Danielle Barille getting more active on Twitter, finally responds to Druff.... (2:17:28): Ron McMillen, born in 1949, wins online bracelet event.... (2:22:08): Ryan Depaulo wins online bracelet from a Whole Foods parking lot in New Jersey.... (2:25:39): Who is foul-mouthed wsop.com player "Texasmolly"?.... (2:56:27): What happened to David "The Maven" Chicotsky?.... (3:28:09): Degenerate obtains $9 million worth of fraudulent "Paycheck Protection Program" loans so he could shoot it off in casinos.... (3:41:23): Bank of America shuts down Daniel Negreanu's business account.... (3:50:12): Nick Schulman accused of problem gambling in WSOP.com e-mail.... (4:07:40): Palazzo in Las Vegas closing hotel Monday through Thursday, until further notice.... (4:12:26): Commerce, other card rooms want California Indian casinos also shut down.... (4:32:54): California rolling back reopening in the face of high new COVID-19 case numbers.... (4:48:34): Florida sees a record 15,000 new cases in a day, but is it really worse than New York was in April?.... (4:54:17): It is possible immunity from COVID-19 may only last for a few months.... (5:02:48): Israeli firm claims it has developed major treatment to "neutralize" COVID-19 infection.... (5:19:08): Are llamas the potential answer to a COVID-19 treatment?.... (5:37:59): Man arrested at Hard Rock Lake Tahoe for refusing to leave after refusing to wear a mask.... (5:43:57): Opinion: Cancel culture really is an assault on free speech.... Co-hosting by tradershky and Brandon "Drexel" Gerson.

Acorn Bites is so much more than a product. The Tribal Youth Ambassadors are proud to represent the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Santa Rosa, California. They are Pomo and Miwok youth who advocate for our tribal communities and cultures through our many educational projects and public presentations on California Indian history, cultures, and contemporary life. Join Electa Hare-Redcorn as she leads a fulfilling conversation with Nicole (Nikki) Lim the Director of the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center. 

(Topic begins at 0:24:31 mark): California Indian casinos attacking Commerce and other casinos on two fronts -- but who is in the right?.... (1:08:39 mark): Peter Jepsen ("Zupp") convicted of trojan-related cheating over 6-year span.... (1:24:05 mark): Unregulated, non-government companies are stalking your every move through your cell phone, and it's legal.... (2:14:04 mark): Ignition skims money from Druff's cashout.... (2:42:18 mark): Bovada/Ignition removes brings back deleted cash games, then removes them again.... (2:53:48 mark): Joe Biden expresses support for online poker, but what does that mean?.... (3:14:51 mark): WSOP announces dates for 2020 series.... (3:40:58 mark): Michigan legalizes online poker, sportsbetting.... (3:56:35 mark): Druff in the middle of a dispute involving former Playboy Playmate and actor Scott Schwartz.... (4:26:51 mark): Major bust of Canadian sportsbetting ring involves Hells Angels & Mafia.... (4:37:49 mark): Global Poker Awards to make tweak in order to prevent previous controversy from reoccurring.... (4:43:31 mark): Update: Tahoe video poker is still a good option for earning Caesars Diamond & Seven Stars.... (5:00:52 mark): Diamond members will lose free access to Las Vegas Caesars properties spas in 2020.... (5:10:29 mark): Hard Rock Atlantic City disappointed with early returns.... (5:27:45 mark): Vegas area restaurant serves cannabis-infused meal. tradershky co-hosts.

(Topic begins at 0:24:31 mark): California Indian casinos attacking Commerce and other casinos on two fronts -- but who is in the right?.... (1:08:39 mark): Peter Jepsen ("Zupp") convicted of trojan-related cheating over 6-year span.... (1:24:05 mark): Unregulated, non-government companies are stalking your every move through your cell phone, and it's legal.... (2:14:04 mark): Ignition skims money from Druff's cashout.... (2:42:18 mark): Bovada/Ignition removes brings back deleted cash games, then removes them again.... (2:53:48 mark): Joe Biden expresses support for online poker, but what does that mean?.... (3:14:51 mark): WSOP announces dates for 2020 series.... (3:40:58 mark): Michigan legalizes online poker, sportsbetting.... (3:56:35 mark): Druff in the middle of a dispute involving former Playboy Playmate and actor Scott Schwartz.... (4:26:51 mark): Major bust of Canadian sportsbetting ring involves Hells Angels & Mafia.... (4:37:49 mark): Global Poker Awards to make tweak in order to prevent previous controversy from reoccurring.... (4:43:31 mark): Update: Tahoe video poker is still a good option for earning Caesars Diamond & Seven Stars.... (5:00:52 mark): Diamond members will lose free access to Las Vegas Caesars properties spas in 2020.... (5:10:29 mark): Hard Rock Atlantic City disappointed with early returns.... (5:27:45 mark): Vegas area restaurant serves cannabis-infused meal. tradershky co-hosts.

Dr. Joely Proudfit has traveled from tribal poverty to become a three-time tenured Cal State University professor and was a member of President Obama’s National Advisory Council on Indian Education. She is a leading advocate for Native American education, sovereignty, cultural preservation, and ecological stewardship on behalf of California's largest-in-the-nation American Indian population.

“Protecting a Sacred Site: Juristac, California Indigenous Histories, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Historical Trauma & Healing” Part 1:___________________________________ Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Nation, is Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Nation, one of three historic California Indigenous Nations that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts (http://amahmutsun.org/governance/tribal-council) and he joins us for this exclusive interview regarding Amah Mutsun Nation history, culture, traditions, traditional ecological knowledge, California Indian histories, the ongoing work of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/) to heal Mother Earth within their traditional territories and protect the sacred site: Juristac (Huris-tak), which lies at the heart of the ancestral lands of the Amah Mutsun Nation. For thousands of years, our Mutsun ancestors lived and held sacred ceremonies at this location in the southern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, above the confluence of the Pajaro and San Benito rivers. Juristac, colonially known as the Sargent Ranch, is under threat from the proposed Sargent Quarry that will impact 320 acres of traditional lands. The plan includes a 14-acre processing plant, three 200-foot deep open pit quarry sites, a 1.6-mile long conveyor belt, and a 30-foot wide access road. An estimated 40 million tons of sand and gravel aggregate would be produced over the life of the mine, primarily for use in local road building and general construction. The cultural landscape encompassing Juristac is known today as the Sargent Ranch. An investor group, Debt Acquisition Company of America (DACA) (https://daca4.com/), based in San Diego, CA purchased the land at a bankruptcy auction and is currently seeking to develop a 320-acre open pit sand and gravel mining operation on the property. For Protect Juristic, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/ To sign the petition opposing the Sargent Quarry Project, visit here: http://www.protectjuristac.org/petition/ American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/

The Big Time provides an opportunity to share California Indian traditions, cultures, and history with HSU students, staff and faculty, as well as the community at large. This year, the event coincides with the 50th anniversary of the The Indian Tribal & Educational Personnel Program (ITEPP). KHSU's Megan Martin spoke with students and staff from ITEPP about the upcoming event and the origins and importance of ITEPP itself.

Dive deep into agroecology and the Native plant wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Keeper and medical herbalist Sage LaPena (Noptipom Wintu). This episode is unique in that it is based on a public lecture and hands-on teachings of Sage LaPena earlier this year. We learn about the sacred Oak and Peppernut trees of the North Coast landscape along with many of the cultural foods, medicines and craft plants native to the woodlands, grasslands, and riparian ecosystems of Coast Miwok territory. Sage eloquently shares ethnobotanical knowledge about trees, shrubs, grasses, and underground rooted plant parts such as mahogany, manzanita, elderberry, soap root, and Calechortus, among others. Sage reveals the life cycles and unique characteristics of these beautiful Native plant relatives, along with the high-TEK tools used to gather with, such as digging sticks and baskets. Additionally, we learn about traditional fire management and cultural burning and California Indian tribes historical and contemporary use of fire as a land-care practice. Sage's teachings demonstrate the power of applied Indigenous environmental education, the importance of Native peoples as agroecologists and biocultural restorationists, and the spiritual ecology of relationships between human, plant, and planetary health.

For many indigenous people living in the US today, the past had been cut off from them. We Are Birds Director Albert Chacon discovered this history through the tradition of birdsinging – bird songs are the oral tradition of passing down the family’s story through song and dance. The old rituals designed to keep history and spirit of the family and tribe alive. “Ay, every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new –“ – Rudolfo Anaya As Chacon discovered the traditions, he began talking with other birdsingers and discovered others in the same situation. There men and women were also finding out about their history through this tradition and building new ways to (re)create ritual and community meaning. We Are Birds is the result of interviews at powwows and other events on Southern California reservations. Here is our conversation with Chacon and several birdsingers in this documentary and you can watch the film on Vimeo or visit it’s Facebook page.   Host Jonathan Schwartz is joined by: Albert Chacon (Writer, Director, Editor) Derek Duro (Head Birdsinger, Dancer) Frankie Morreo (Birdsinger, Dancer) Joanelle Romero (Founder, CEO Red Nation Celebration Inst, Red Nation Film Festival) Chris Finley (USC Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity)   This podcast is part of a series on Indigenous films in partnership with the Red Nation Celebration Institute, and the Red Nation Film Festival. It is brought to you by Price Video Services and USC Bedrosian Center, and continues ongoing efforts to bring policy and its impact into the public discourse. Sound supervision by the Brothers Hedden. Find more at www.usc.edu/ppr

This program was conducted in both Spanish and English. Join us for an evening celebrating indigenous poetry from the United States and Mexico with three major poets—Natalie Diaz (member of the Mojave and Pima Indian tribes, winner of the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, language activist and educator), Layli Long Soldier (an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, and artist whose debut poetry collection WHEREAS is short-listed for the National Book Award), and Natalia Toledo (a Mexican poet and translator who writes in Spanish and Zapotec and won the Nezhualcóyotl Prize, Mexico’s highest honor for indigenous-language literature). Each poet will read from their distinctive work that moves across many languages and lands, exploring what it means to be an indigenous woman writer in today’s world. This special program will also feature a performance by Cahuilla Bird singing master Michael Mirelez and company, who are part of a long, inter-generational tradition of culture bearers within the local California Indian community. Simultaneous interpretation was provided by Antena Los Ángeles. This program was produced as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.  

Poet and wilderness writer Andrew Schelling talks about his new biography Tracks Along the Left Coast (Counterpoint), which tells the story of Jaime De Angulo (1887-1950): Big Sur bohemian, California Indian anthropologist, and great Coyote poet.  

The oldest & largest Ohlone village on SF Bay is the proposed site for a five-story West Berkeley apartment and retail complex. Ohlone descendants and Berkeley residents are calling instead for a two-acre memorial park honoring Ohlone history and culture.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness, a weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area in Harris. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today I'm interviewing Corina Google lead organizer and cofounder of Indian people organizing for change. And Chris Oaks, native American activists and Oakland resident. They'll be talking about their innovative quest to stop development on the west Berkeley Shell Mountain alone, the village side [00:00:30] and the birthplace of human settlement on the San Francisco Bay. Come to the program, Chris and Terrina. Uh, you guys have been very involved recently, Speaker 2:the shell mound Aloni village site controversy. And I want to talk about your innovative solutions to your opposition to the development there. What's going on over there? Well, thank you for having us on. We've been working on the shell mound issue I guess since about March of last year [00:01:00] when the developer first took it to the zoning board and there was a few of us, a handful of us that showed up to that first initial meeting in March and the opposition already to the plan. So the plan is to develop the fourth streets. It's 1904th street. What's Bangor's parking lot, right? Spangler is parking lot right across the street. And you know, a lot of people say, well, why? You know, it's not even there anymore, but the [inaudible] is way deeper inside of there and it's way bigger [00:01:30] than um, this bangers parking lot. That's 2.2 acres. It actually goes, um, to second and Hearst. Speaker 2:It goes under the railroad tracks under trued and white Anders bangers and out underneath the overpass. So as a huge area of my ancestors, it's over 5,700 years old. It is the first place that people ever lived in the entire bay. It is the oldest of 425 plus shell mounds or burial sites of my ancestors that once rank [00:02:00] the entire bay area. So many have been covered up. Emeryville is a, was a big shell. Male Emeryville was the largest of the 425. It was over 60 feet high and 350 feet in diameter. Um, it was both the uh, west Berkeley showmen and the memory real Shama was on a 1852 coast survey map. So coming into the bay you could use them as points of reference. So these um, shell mounds were really instrumental for us also as Aloni people to be able [00:02:30] to see out our relatives that were around the bay to have ceremony on top of them to be able to light fire so people can send signals to one another about different things. Speaker 2:So these were, I'm absolutely are monuments to the ancestors but are also sacred sites to the alone of people that exist here in the bay area today. Okay. So you're talking about the unique and significant points about this, the earliest settlement on the bay ceremonial side, a burial ground, and you mentioned some other things. You say that [00:03:00] it's listed on the national registry of historic sites now it qualifies. It is a landmark in the city of Berkeley and it's also a state historic landmark and it qualifies for a national historic landmark. And the development is going to be what, what is it that they're proposing? They're proposing a five story mixed use building with parking, housing, restaurants and stores. It's a pretty big structure compared to what's there right now. Yeah, it's [00:03:30] the local businesses and residents think about this development Speaker 3:at the public comment period. Um, one of the main developers for fourth street came by and he actually has hired an attorney who testified as well. Um, because they are against the development for a variety of reasons. One of which is that parking in that area as anybody knows who goes down there, it's horrible. But then the other one is it's just completely out of size for the area. So they brought up a bunch of concerns about the height of other buildings around it cause [00:04:00] it's going to be a few stories taller than any other building near there, chewed in white. They also came to the last zoning board public comment and they were also concerned about congestion and traffic in the area, which is also something that the zoning board members pretty much unanimously in their comments had mentioned was going to be one of the major issues to this project. Purely from a city planning perspective. The area pretty much has been overdeveloped and so there isn't enough parking. Traffic is horrible and the intersections there are bad [00:04:30] and they're just going to get worse and there's real no remedy for it because it's a kind of secluded little pocket of a neighborhood. Speaker 2:So the draft environmental impact report came out during the holiday season and what happens with a lot of drafty IRAs that come out around the holiday season is that people in the general public don't know about them and don't have time or energy to actually submit comments to the draft EIR. So we were able to actually do a lot of work. There's a committee of us that have been working together closely meeting [00:05:00] on a weekly basis, trying to figure out how to get the word out and to get people to come to the meetings. So they've been having public commenting both at the Zoning Adjustment Board and at the landmarks preservation commission. We've been able to successfully get lots of people to both of those meetings. The last public commenting period at the landmarks preservation commission at the north Berkeley Senior Center. And so getting folks to come out there and speak in opposition and to show people have come out with signs and um, have [00:05:30] stood there in the background and if stayed until one 30, two o'clock in the morning to give public testimony about why they're in opposition to this site has been really great to get public backing of for us to oppose this particular site. Speaker 2:So we've been working on it I guess since they, they released it in November, they gave it to extensions. Um, the last extension they gave we'll go until February 9th. What are you recommending since today is the deadline? What time is the, is the last time can comment and how do they go about doing that? 5:00 PM [00:06:00] is the end of the commenting period and if you don't have time to get it in the mail today, you can go onto the west Berkeley show Mt. Facebook page or the Indian people organizing for change website. You can find and download a copy of the letters that have been pre created that have bullet points of different issues that are in the EIR that we'd like for people to comment too, and you can send that to Shannon Allen at city planning and Berkeley. What [00:06:30] are your major challenges for this project? Speaker 2:I guess the major challenges have been educating people about this place because when you look at the, at Berkeley itself, Berkeley is a small city that's grown over the last 150 so years, but they don't have a lot of history around show mounts. There's some stuff about Aloni people in the past. They see I have a park there underneath the overpass. There's pictures of Baloney people dressed in regalia in the past and stuff, but I think that that's [00:07:00] the problem is that we're always viewed as somebody from the past, right. So to realize that Aloni people still exist here in our own territory. To bring people together to talk about what that looks like, to reimagine the bay area, to bring folks together on a loony territory with Aloni presence. Still here is something that's been a little challenging, but I think that because we've done the work over the last 20 years that it hasn't been as challenging as it could have been at school. Speaker 2:Children learn about the settlements. It's required [00:07:30] in the state of California. I think one of the most important things for just like barrier residents in general is that this is the first place that human beings ever lived on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. This is a place that we, as everybody who lives currently in the bay area, it should be a place that they're proud of. This is a place that's going to turn into another building. We have enough buildings around. We don't have sites like this. This is the first one. It's the oldest one. It also happens to be a burial ground where thousands and thousands of people were buried for over 5,000 years. [00:08:00] It should be a a historic landmark for the bay area. Everybody should know about it. What are you proposing instead? We're proposing we're working with a group that's going to create a plan that's an alternative plan. Speaker 2:That's one of the problems with the draftee I are that there is no alternative plan except to say that we could make it a smaller building maybe and so that's just not okay to demolish something. This sacred, this beautiful, this, this meaningful, illogical side with the museum over it. [00:08:30] It should have something there that instead of just a plaque saying that allone people were here at one time and we wiped them out and they're not here anymore. Cause that's basically what we get. We need to show folks that this is a living culture. People have been coming to the shell mound. My still take my family there. We still prayed there and recently we've taken people there and had interfaith prayer circles. They're over 200 people come every time to pray there together that this is a place that is supposed to be saved. This is a sacred place. Speaker 2:It's a place [00:09:00] that that shouldn't be destroyed. And so what we're doing is we're looking at how can we show this in a way that people can understand all of these other monuments that have been destroyed. Nobody can really wrap their head around what a shell man looks like. [inaudible] isn't there something from the 18 hundreds that I've seen pictures. There are maps that are, that were created. There are pictures of remanence of the shell man, both in Berkeley, west Berkeley and uh, Emeryville. And these [00:09:30] mounds are created by thousands of years of people living in the same place. So it's not like we are wandering around that we had these settlements that were, that people lived at. We were fishermen, so we lived on the water. The Bay actually came up closer. So imagine going into this space and keeping it green. Imagine opening up the Strawberry Creek where my, my ancestors lived next to so that people could see it again today. Imagine having our, uh, uh, structured there in Arbor where we had our ceremonial dances at and having [00:10:00] a mound built there and having structures of what the houses looked like so that children, not only from Berkeley but all over the bay area could come here and actually see that as you said, they, they have to study this stuff. The train tracks are right there and can bring people here to Berkeley. So Speaker 4:proposed a plan for something like that? Speaker 2:Yes. So we have had the archeologists, there's some archeologists that have been involved. Uh, not so much in the planning of the, of what we're envisioning. We have some folks that do landscape architecture [00:10:30] that are actually creating plans for us right now. We are hoping to submit that um, we'll be submitting that along with our comments for the draft EIR. Those things will happen so that zoning board could actually see that this could actually be something different. We either open it up to green space and we say as the city of Berkeley that this is what needs to happen. That we don't need any more buildings down there that we actually are going to respect the Aloni people in the culture and that it's an ongoing thing and yes, we want to help the Aloni people to actually [00:11:00] share their culture and beliefs here in the bay area and at the, and at the very least, leave it alone and leave it as a parking area not to build on it ever. Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness weekly public affairs show on k a l expertly celebrating bay area innovators. Today I'm interviewing Corina Ghoul and Chris oaks about the Berkeley Shell Mound Aloni village site. [00:11:30] You were the main figure, one of the main figures in a film. Speaker 4:Great documentary beyond recognition. And in that film you created a land trust to solve a similar issue. Can you talk about what that was and I understand also that you are trying to create a land trust here. Sure. Speaker 2:Michelle Steinberg created the film beyond recognition because we were also involved in takeover of our re reoccupying, one of our sacred sites that had two shell mounds on it and [inaudible] Tay [00:12:00] where Glen Cove Leho is right now in 2011, hundreds of people came out and supported us in protecting that sacred site at that including Chris who was on our legal team at the time. We stood there for 109 days taking over that space again and praying and hoping that it would be protected for all eternity. And for the most part that that's what really happened. There was a federally recognized tribe that is from farther up north. Um, it's not their territory, but they stepped in and created a cultural [00:12:30] easement with the park district and the city, which is the first that's ever happened to cultural easement, allows those three entities to have the same rights on that piece of land. Speaker 2:So it will be protected. It would not have happened had we not been there for 109 days, pushing the envelope to make sure that something came through and happened. What we realized while we were there. If we had had a land trust at the time, we could have created that cultural easement ourselves. And so Beth Rose Middleton, who was a professor at UC Berkeley, wrote land for [00:13:00] trust, actually invited me to a native American meeting for native people that had land trusts. And I couldn't understand at the time why I was going to the meeting until I got them begin to hear their stories. And I said, wait a minute, we should do that. So we have decided, a group of us came together and we're creating the first urban native women land trust ever created because Aloni people's land is all urban now just about. Um, but also it's all native indigenous women's Land Trust, not just Aloni land trust because so many native [00:13:30] women have been brought into the bay area on relocation measures during the fifties and sixties has raised their children here. Speaker 2:Their children have children now. And so it's really about giving a place, a space and we're really having to buy our own land back. And that's what the land trust is about. So right now we have done the articles of incorporation. We're working on kind of completing the nonprofit status so that we can go forward and begin to raise money to actually do the purchasing of our land, but land is expensive. Here in the bay area, [00:14:00] the 2.2 acres of land that's across from spankers is going for $17 million. My ancestors, the first place that they ever lived, the first place that Aloni babies were born in this area. The first place of laughter is going for $17 million and if they put this building on top of that, that means that there is not going to be a place that my grandchildren who are laughing and being born on our land can go and pray with their ancestors. Speaker 2:I think that society has come a bit farther than that, [00:14:30] that we can actually say we can actually share this with the first people that tended to this land. What needs to happen before you get your nonprofit status? What remains to be done? We are in the midst. We have our bylaws that were just completed. We are vetting it through the lawyer and the last paperwork needs to be submitted and then it's all good. We actually have a website that's online right now. It's called a Segora Tay Land Trust. You'd better spell that. Yeah. Www dot [inaudible] [00:15:00] s o g o r e a t e hyphen land trust.org and folks can go on it could learn about history in the bay area, can learn about why we created the land trust. There's also something on there called the Sh. Let me tax and Sh Leumi in Aloni language though, Aloni language from this area [inaudible] it means a gift and so it allows people to go on there and to actually help us in finding ways to raise money if they're a renter or an owner, how many bedrooms [00:15:30] they have, how much land tax they could actually pay to help us to begin that process of purchasing land back. Speaker 2:So it's a way for people to be involved. I encourage people in the [inaudible] Speaker 4:and to see that great documentary that you feature so prominently in. Yes, which is called beyond recognition. Definitely check that out. It's a good one. I wanted to ask you if you felt like standing rock and all the historic precedent that said, although right now it might be under siege with our, our new president, but do you feel that that has invigorated [00:16:00] this cause? Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say that I'm, in the last 20 years we've been working on [inaudible] issues in the bay area. We've done walks to show mounds, we've done the occupation, we go to the Emeryville on the day after Thanksgiving for the last 19 years asking people to come and help us give out information to ask people not to shop there. And I think that when people began to see standing rock and social media has been such a great wonder and helping people to see this, see what was happening out there and to actually [00:16:30] follow along. So many people, activists from the bay area have gone out to standing rock. And one of the beautiful things that has happened was that the elders out in standing rock actually gave a directive to young people that were coming out there. And going back home was to get involved with your own local issues. This is our standing rock right now in the bay area. This is our front line. And so young people, allies and accomplices have come together, have helped us to try to figure out how they could do work to help us [00:17:00] to get fundraisers for the lawyer that we've had to hire, have done fundraisers to get information out, have created events pages so that folks will know about it. So it's been a wonderful coupling of between us. Speaker 4:Yeah, it's not over yet. Of course. It's not over yet. It has really kind of lit some fires I think. Yeah, it's been great. You've been at this for 20 some years. How did you Speaker 2:no, you were Aloni how did this all come about? Right. I grew up in the bay area, went to, uh, went to public [00:17:30] schools. My mom always told us that we were Aloni we, she knew that we came from mission San Jose. That's where we were enslaved at. My great grandfather, Jose Guzman was the last one of the last speakers of the [inaudible] language. Can you speak? No, I can't speak it. I can say a few words inside of [inaudible]. My daughter, um, it was her dream since she was about 14 to begin the language and she's starting to do that now and she's teaching my grandchildren as well. So it's a wonderful thing that that's, and it's my hope that I will [00:18:00] learn enough so that I can pray in my own language. So we've always known who we are, but it's not that long ago that California Indians, it was against the law for them to even be here. Speaker 2:It wasn't that long ago that California Indian kids were taken out of their homes and put into boarding schools like my mom and my aunties and uncles. So it was very scary boarding one of the boarding schools. And so for us it's been a real, it's a resilience, a way for people to say Aloni people are bringing back language and [00:18:30] culture and dance and song because our ancestors put those things away though because our ancestors gave those things to people to hold onto until we were able to grab them again until it was an, it was safe for us to come out. And I think that that's really important that Nels Nelson, for whatever reason, created this map with 425 shell mounds way before I was here in 1909 he wrote that map down. But today we were able to use that in order to find out where all of our sites were. Speaker 2:[00:19:00] JP Harrington recorded my great grandfather on wax cylinder and it's in the Smithsonian so we could reclaim our language again. So there's these people that put these things away for us because our ancestors whispered in their ear and told them to do that so that we could come back again and share this with our children and our grandchildren. So it's our responsibility. We are the stewards of this land. We were put here because this was the place we were supposed to take care of in this part of the world, and so I really believe that that's our, [00:19:30] that's what we're supposed to do. Bringing back language and song and all of that is part of the dream part of that, about the importance of that language and culture and why is this important? It's important for the healing of this land. It's important for the healing of the people that live on this land, not just the loaning people. Speaker 2:When you say healing village, are you talking about environmental degradation? I'm talking about racism. I'm talking about the slavery. I'm talking about environmental, I'm talking about the invisibility of Aloni people. I'm talking about all of the [00:20:00] horrific things of the happened since the genocide that was created on this land that needs to be taken care of. I'm talking about the thousands of ancestral remains at UC Berkeley that need to be put back into the ground. I'm talking about all of those kinds of things that need to be fixed here so that we could all become more human with each other. Again, it starts here. It starts with US fixing it with the first people of this land. There was at one point the United States government [00:20:30] had a government to government relationship with, with our tribe. And then there was a point in history where the person that was in charge of the bureau of Indian affairs wrote something that basically got rid of us. He wrote a line that said for all intensive purposes, no money was needed in order to purchase Speaker 3:land for the homeless Indians in the area. Now that takes an act of Congress to actually wipe out a tribe and that never happened, but there has not been any government to government relationships [00:21:00] since then. So it's really difficult to talk to the general public about these kinds of things because the general public doesn't even learn what sovereignty means, what an Indian tribe and federal recognition means in high school. And most kids, like we talk about a kids learn about Aloni people in third and fourth grade, but they learn about us in the past like we don't exist anymore. Well, you have the Indians around here used to do this and they used to do that, but what about the Indian people here today that drive cars and have cell phones and go to Raiders Games? It's always about [00:21:30] the Indians that were dressed up in feathers a long time ago and people didn't dress in feathers everyday. Speaker 3:Those were regalia that we use for certain ceremony, so we have to break those ideas in people's mind, but we also have to do a better job educating people that go to public schools about what does this, what is the responsibility of the federal government to the nations. Many different nations, hundreds of different nations that lived here in the, in the United States before it was the United States and we do a really bad [00:22:00] job in the education system doing that. Part of the history of how Indian tribes were recognized by the federal government comes from the fact that we have a several hundred year history of being Indian people in the United States. One of the issues that we get, especially out in California, is that the westward expansion in the United States followed several hundred years of congress changing their minds. So under the Supreme Court decision of John Marshall, the, he said that Indian nations were what they call domestic dependent nations, which means they're under [00:22:30] federal government control just legally. Speaker 3:And so part of that was that George Washington and the Delaware people, they were talking in the late 17 hundreds and as they traveled west, as the, as United States grew, they had different policies and different agreements with all of the Indian tribes going one by one. We've got about 430 recognized Indian tribes. Each one had their own agreements. And part of that was reflected in what year it was. Who is in Congress? Who was president? Was it, um, Andrew Jackson [00:23:00] who is known as the Indian killer or was it president Washington who in fact was fighting for independence from a foreign nation and all the way until the war of 1812 Indians were a strong part of the United States military or the British military or the French military. Depending on who they were aligned with. So a lot of the east coast tribes have a completely different history because they were actually allies of these emerging governments. Speaker 3:And then when you get past the Mississippi, you had the policies of a few hundred years of Indian [00:23:30] wars, which is why, for instance, the Lakota people and the boots Apache people in Geronimo and sitting bull. And you get these Indian leaders for about a hundred years that were known for the Indian wars because that's when the west was expanding rapidly and they were killing Indians to do it. But the little known American history that we don't know as much is what happened when not the Mexican or the Spanish government got to California, but was when the United States government got to California. So we're talking in the 1850s so that was, [00:24:00] you know, 150 years of Indian policy that had been used by the United States and by Congress. And so you had a completely different idea of how to deal with Indian people by the time you got here. So what happened was that they were keen to recognize as many tribes as possible on the east coast because they were allies. Speaker 3:They were keen to run through all the tribes in the middle of America, from North Dakota, all the way down to Texas and all the way out to Colorado. And by the time they got here, they were purely motivated [00:24:30] by taking the land and they saw the Indian people as a burden on the west coast and California specifically because it was one of the last states. This is where Congress made it a policy to not recognize the tribes in California because they saw them as a burden because of 150 years of us policy with Indian tribe. Chris, what is your background here? What are you doing in this movement? My mom is from England and my father's from the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma. The reason we're the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma's, [00:25:00] cause Andrew Jackson relocated us in the 1830s from the state of Mississippi, which is our actual true home. Speaker 3:That's where our origin stories come from. The Choctaw people were pivotal in fighting in the war of 1812 against other Indian nations. For instance, to Coosa, uh, who is like a famous Indian leader who was very anti-American because he was on the British side. My tribe fought for the, for the United States. We were part of the war of 1812 where a large part of the victory of the war of 18, 12. The reason that we don't have any reservation in the state of Oklahoma [00:25:30] is because we picked the wrong side of the war for the civil war. So that's just a little brief history of how our tribe has been affected over in the state of Mississippi, in Oklahoma, by United States policy, United States Indian policy has changed depending on who's president, who's in Congress, what were were fighting. And where we are. Part of me here is that my dad, his family was born in Oklahoma since it became a state. Speaker 3:My great-great-grandmother arrived in Oklahoma the day it became a state as a settler. She was on the Non Indian [00:26:00] side and my dad's family has been born in the state of Oklahoma since we were relocated there in the 1830s he moved out here because of the air force. My granddad was relocated here as part of the air force. They came to California. So the reason why, for instance, inter-tribal friendship houses, the oldest Pan Indian meeting center in the United States, which is right here in Oakland on the west coast, is because Indians have been relocated to California specifically to the industrial areas like Oakland, [00:26:30] Los Angeles, which is where some of the largest Indian populations are in the United States is because of relocation. Sometimes that happened from what they call the relocation programs to the United States. Sometimes it comes because Indians have overwhelmingly been some of the most active volunteers for the United States military. Speaker 3:Uh, my dad went to cal Berkeley and so that's how my family got here. He actually wanted to fly my mom to Oklahoma to have me and my brother born there because we were the, the first generations [00:27:00] not born in Oklahoma since we were relocated there as a tribe. I went to school at California State University, East Bay and created a degree in American Indian pre-law because I knew that Indian law was what I wanted to do with my life. I remember ever since I was a kid, I would learn about the Indian policy. I would learn about sacred sites and it was something that would oftentimes have moved me to tears. And I knew it was something that I was passionate about. And when I started getting involved with Karena, one of the first sacred sites that I really sat down and worked for was in Cigar Tay, which was in Vallejo in 2011. Speaker 3:[00:27:30] And ever since then, it's been kind of hard to, to not follow my responsibilities, uh, to not follow the privileges that I've been given in this life, whether it be economic privileges of where I was born, but also my history of how my people got here to California, whether it be the Indian side or the English side, taking a step back from the Indian ancestry. For me, just as somebody who was born in Oakland, we need to look around and see the sacred sites that are around us. We need to know the history people lived here for [00:28:00] thousands of years before us and they're still here. And so part of that is acknowledging sacred sites and is knowing where these places are and what they mean. Our generation, I feel overwhelmingly has realized we're now coming to grips with our colonized history as colonizers, as people who participated in the colonization of North America and who also participated in the colonization of California. And we're realizing that we're on stolen land and some people call it guilt. That's one way of thinking about it, but it's [00:28:30] that we have to be more conscious. We have to think and we have to respect the people who are here now and the people here before us. And when you think about how long Berkeley has been a city compared to the 5,700 years that the west Berkeley Shell mound has been there, it's just a drop in the bucket. Speaker 2:So anyone listening today, I'm going to encourage people to go onto the Facebook page, west Berkeley show mouth, um, and to download the letters and to email it and to Shannon Allen's at the city planning, but not only for them to do it. I need them to get [00:29:00] five to 10 people, other people to do it. So if you're sitting at your office, you're listening to this, you have your coworkers, you have your mom, your dad, whoever it is that you know that's close to you and say, this is the right thing to do. As citizens of Berkeley, as citizens in the United States, that the Aloni people deserve to have this place saved. And that we can also ask the zoning board to actually change the zoning of that particular site, even though it's private property to make it a place that's actually open [00:29:30] space. If you want to make that a comment, ask the zoning board to make it a place that doesn't ever get built upon, that it stays open space and that they could rezone that particular lot to do. Just that. Speaker 1:Stop what you're doing. Grab a pen, get involved. I appreciate your energy today, so thank you Trina. Google. Thank you, Chris. Thank you so much. Thank you. You've been listening to method to the madness. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. [00:30:00] Tune in again next Friday at noon. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After a remarkable 40-year career, publisher Malcolm Margolin is retiring from Heyday Books in Berkeley. He joins the show to talk about the liberation of being unimportant, why you build a roundhouse to fall apart, the "dress code" necessary to make things palatable to a mainstream audience, the craziest golf foursome ever, the two-week-plus run of LSD that may have changed his life, his efforts to chronicle California Indian culture, his next act(s), and more! More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal  

Ken Scalir and Rawwolf call in near the beginning of the show. Sheldon Adelson's Sands Corporation seems to be having a problem controlling underage gaming at their own properties. Phil Ivey keeps losing money, while his wife has remarried to a venture capitalist. California Indian tribes slam Pokerstars in attempt to keep them out of CA legalized gambling market. Druff gives his full WSOP schedule and info regarding buying a piece. Pokerhost leaves Merge to join the Equity Poker Network. Russian finds software bug & saves Pokerstars $50-100k, but is unhappy with how they rewarded him. Editorial: What is a scam? Druff takes a few questions from the chat room.

Ken Scalir and Rawwolf call in near the beginning of the show. Sheldon Adelson's Sands Corporation seems to be having a problem controlling underage gaming at their own properties. Phil Ivey keeps losing money, while his wife has remarried to a venture capitalist. California Indian tribes slam Pokerstars in attempt to keep them out of CA legalized gambling market. Druff gives his full WSOP schedule and info regarding buying a piece. Pokerhost leaves Merge to join the Equity Poker Network. Russian finds software bug & saves Pokerstars $50-100k, but is unhappy with how they rewarded him. Editorial: What is a scam? Druff takes a few questions from the chat room.

Malcolm Margolin 30 Years of Publishing California Culture Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in this quirky, funny, and poignant conversation with Malcolm Margolin, who is celebrating 30 years of publishing through his small, Berkeley-based indy press, Heyday Books. One of numerous thriving presses in Berkeley, Heyday had its beginnings in the tumult of the 1960s. It has not only survived but become a much lauded publisher of some of the best books on California history and culture. Margolin is also a naturalist and inveterate hiker. Malcolm Margolin Malcolm is the founder of Heyday Books, established in 1974. The mission of Heyday Books is to deepen people’s appreciation and understanding of California’s cultural, natural, historic, literary, and artistic resources. Malcolm’s vision has led the press to be especially active in publishing works by and about the California Indian community. Heyday has published more than thirty books on California Indians and since 1987 has been distributing News from Native California, a quarterly magazine devoted to California Indian culture and history. Many of the existing tribes indigenous to the state of California were nearly wiped out, due to disease, enslavement, and institutionalized genocide. In his role as publisher, Malcolm has supported the revitalization of Native language, dance, basketweaving, storytelling, and religious practice. He is the author of four books, the best known of them being The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Still cloudy and drizzling; talk to Meggin twice; she is really depressed in Boston; need to go shopping; broccoli bits; California Indian poetry; Casey frustrated by people; the GPs are leaving him their house.

L. Frank Manriquez is a Tongva/Ajachmem artist and cultural activist who is interviewing California Indian families, prompting a flood of memories with old family photographs. Their stories will become part of a new textbook for California public schools. We'll also learn about the 9th Annual Indian Canyon Storytelling and Arts Festival this Saturday — presented by the Indian Canyon Nation of Costanoan People. And the Bay Area Indian Calendar. Produced by Janeen Antoine and Gregg McVicar. The host is Corina Gould (Ohlone). The post Bay Native Circle – July 21, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

Our first guest, Dan Kinsley, presents a new approach to journalism, based on blockchain technology. His organization, the Civil Media Company, employs blockchain to raise funds for online-journalism enterprises, and also to empower those enterprises to collectively enforce high standards of reporting. In the second half of the program, independent journalist Peter Byrne explains a recently-exposed scandal in which a powerful Democratic political consultant and a US Senator's son schemed to enrich themselves at the expense of a California Indian tribe. Notes: Dan Kinsley is a cofounder of the Civil Media Company, civil.co It helps support nearly 20 online news organizations, some state- or city-focused, others with national or international scope. Peter Byrne is a seasoned investigative reporter who has written for a wide array of newspapers and magazines; he's covered topics from science and medicine to terrorism to government corruption.