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Program Contents
List of Events
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Presentation Descriptions
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Presenter Biographies
Samoan Tattoos
11:00am-12:30pm, W-110
Brenna Chapman
Maggie Steele
5:30pm-8:00pm, W-110
11:00am-2:00pm, Quad
Thundering Moccasins
Shelly Covert
4:00pm-6:30pm, Amphitheater
Audiopharmacy Concert
7:00-9:00pm, V-229
Sage LaPena
Lindsie Bear
11:00am-12:30pm, V-229
Missions Counterstory
Vincent Medina
Carlos Geisdorff
2:00pm-4:00pm, D-12
4:00pm-6:00pm, V-229
Matthew Archer
Cutcha Risling-Baldy
Kayla Carpenter
Decolonizing Birthing
Sage LaPena
Reception
Sage LaPena
Sierra College
Tuesday, March 17
Samoan Tattoos
9:30am-11:00 am
Fireside Room
Although Florence has been physically away from her native island, she remained connected to her Samoan culture
and traditions through church and community activities. Her love and deep appreciation of her strong heritage led
her to receive the traditional Samoan tatau called the Malu. Florence will be presenting on the history and meaning
of the Samoan traditional tattoo.
Presenter: Florence Malaga Charlie (Bio on page 9)
W-110
This talk will address the ethics of appropriating imagery from indigenous cultures. We will discuss historic examples
of artistic appropriation within the Modern art movement, as well as how appropriation is born of a problematic
history of colonialism, prejudice, and continued injustice against indigenous peoples.
Presenter: Brenna Chapman (Bio on page 9)
Fireside Room
Poet, singer, medicine-woman, activist, Maggie Steele is a fear-less warrior for the peaceful empowerment of us
all. In this session she will share with us her philosophy and experiences of working to generate leadership and hope
within places of suffering and bring healing to those most in need, whether in the prisons or communities plagued
with crushing poverty. It's not just about who we help now, Maggie will help us see, but how our actions now create
or diminish opportunities in the future. Let her positive message inspire you, hopefully towards assisting in bringing
some healing to our region and the world.
Presenter: Maggie Steel (Bio on page 11)
W-110
Fireside Room
While there are public policy, grant requirements, best practice models and efforts to promote cultural competency
in the provision of services, there remains a significant gap between policy and actual accomplishment of cultural
competency throughout various systems of care, programs and services for tribal people. ITCC has developed a
cultural competency education model providing participants with insight to the various events and activities that
have impacted tribal people. The cultural competency education model incorporates information and activities that
enable the participants to gain a deeper understanding of the historical events that resulted in certain conditions
that exist in tribal communities among our tribal people today.
Presenter: Dean Hoaglin (Bio on page 10) & Paul Tupaz (Bio on page 11)
Quad
Our goal is to bring awareness and positive attention to all Native Americans through
song and dance. Thundering Moccasins would like to present Native American dancing
and singing with an educational aspect. We will be explaining the difference between
contemporary pow wow dancing to the Traditional ways of singing and dancing, mainly
focusing on California Natives. Our goal is to bring awareness and positive attention to all
Native American Tribes.
Presenter: Thundering Moccasins (Bio on page 11)
Fireside Room
Revealed are some of the lesser-known stories of the Gold Rush, as told by people living in and around the Deer
Creek Watershed in Nevada City, California. The film combines interviews & local footage with archival film & photos
to highlight the stories of the native people, the Chinese Immigrant workers, and the environment itself.
Presenter: Shelly Covert (Bio on page 10)
Audiopharmacy Concert
4:00pm-6:30pm
Amphitheater
Sierra College
Native American Herbology: Past, Present and Future
7:00pm-9:00pm
V-229
Native American herbologist, ethnobotanist and teacher Sage LaPena will discuss the crucial role of native plants in
local Native American cultures. She will address the synergy of natural and cultural systems, identify contemporary
challenges and discuss the crucial role of Native American endogenous medical knowledges within the revitalization
of Native American cultures and communities.
Presenter: Sage LaPena (Bio on page 10)
Thursday, March 19
New Native Media
9:30am-11:00am
V-229
Lindsie Bear is the editor of News From Native California, a publication with the crucial goal of amplifying the voices
of Native California. In that role she not only witnesses but participates in numerous innovative Native American
applications of new media technologies to challenge dominant narratives and promote indigenous cultural
revitalization. Come participate in this demonstration and discussion of some of these powerful and important art
forms.
Presenter: Lindsie Bear (Bio on page 9)
Missions Counterstory
11:00am-12:30pm
V-229
Fireside Room
Carlos Geisdorf is a singer and language activist, developing and implementing Miwok language revitalization programs for members of his community and beyond. In this workshop he'll help us better understand the importance
and also some of the specific strategies of indigenous language revitalization. Who knows, you might leave knowing
how to say a few words of Miwok.
Presenter: Carlos Geisdorff (Bio on page 10)
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D-12
V-229
Want to see more of your Native youth getting into college and succeeding? So do we! Please help us figure out how
to do that by coming to this community forum and letting us know how best to help your families and communities.
We're ready to make the effort. Please help point us in the right direction by sharing your ideas or concerns either
publicly or anonymously. For more information please contact Professor Matt Archer (916) 6608033 or MArcher@SierraCollege.edu.
Presenter: Matthew Archer (Bio on page 9)
Friday, March 20
diningxine:wh-mil-na:saa:n (Hupa people - with them- it stays; there is a Hupa tradition) Gender, Native American peoples and Womens Coming of Age Ceremonies
9:00am-10:00am
Fireside Room
At one time, the Hupa womens coming of age ceremony was a public celebration of a girls first menstruation which
not only demonstrated that young women were powerful members of Hupa society but that gender equality was
central to Hupa epistemologies. California's post-invasion history was genocide aimed at the total annihilation of
Native peoples and included systematic attacks on Native women and their coming of age ceremonies. As a result,
the Hupa no longer practiced their womens ceremony. Twelve years ago, a group of Hupa women came together to
bring back the ceremony as a way to strengthen their community and address issues of health, trauma and disease.
This presentation explores the cultural revitalization of the Hupa womens ceremony to demonstrate how this
revitalization articulates and supports an Indigenous decolonizing praxis by enacting Indigenous research
methodologies that center on ceremony to counteract the impact of settler colonial ideologies of gender, history,
literature and spirituality. To learn more about this project please visit: www.cutcharislingbaldy.com.
Presenter: Cutcha Risling-Baldy (Bio on page 11)
Sierra College
Flower Songs and Puberty Rites
11:00am-12:30pm
Fireside Room
In this inspiring talk we'll get a glimpse of a woman's body, of her coming of age,
from the perspective of one of our local Native American scholars, teachers and
activists. She'll help us understand the importance of local indigenous coming-ofage rituals and their crucial role for revitalizing and advancing gender equity in
Native American communities.
Presenter: Kayla Carpenter (Bio on page 9)
Decolonizing Birthing
1:30pm-3:00pm
Fireside Room
In this lecture Sage LaPena will help us see birthing in a new and Native American inspired way. She'll not only discuss the importance of indigenous birthing customs and techniques, but also help us to critically examine mainstream American approaches to birthing. Sage will help us to better understand the importance which handing birthing in a Native specific way has for empowering Native women, their families and their communities.
Presenter: Sage LaPena (Bio on page 10)
Saturday, March 21
Yomen Weda and Big Time Event
9:00am-5:00pm
Quad
The last day of our event is truly special. Sierra College is honored to host
a Yomen Weda, a Spring feast, and a Big Time, a Native Californian
celebration. Events of the day will include traditional California dance, a
cultural arts market, demonstrations, food, games, a nature walk, and
tours of the science museum. Spectators are welcome and Native
American crafts and foods will be available. During this event please ask
for permission before taking photographs.
There's so much more to Sierra College than we usually notice. Sage LaPena will take us on a learning tour of the nature paths at the Rocklin campus. It's not only that few of us walk back there to appreciate an undevelped area of
the Sierra Nevada foothills and appreciate the native plants and their numerous uses and significance. On this walk
Sage will help us see the area through the eyes of a Native American ethnobotanist, herboligist, healer and teacher
and enlighten us each step of the way.
Presenter: Sage LaPena (Bio on page 10)
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Reception
6:30pm-10:00pm
Please join us to celebrate the close of this powerful and enlightening series of events with a
reception at the Maidu Museum. Don't miss this opportunity to socialize with the many elders,
activists and scholars who blessed us and our region with their wisdom and medicine. Live music,
film screenings, hors d'oeuvres and beverages will provide additional entertainment and inspiration.
Sierra College
Presenter Biographies
Matthew Archer Professor, Sierra College
Dr. Matt Archer is a professor and chair of the Sierra College
Anthropology Department. He's been advising the Native American
Students Club for the past few years and in that time has awoken to
the critical need to address some of the specific challenges which
Native American students face both getting into and succeeding in
college. Dr. Archer has taken the lead in starting a Native American
Center at Sierra College and is passionate about delivering
programs which address the needs and interests of our local tribes
and communities. (916) 660-8033 or MArcher@SierraCollege.edu.
Brenna Chapman
Brenna Chapman has a Masters degree in Art History from UC
Davis and has been teaching at Sierra College since 2003.
Specializing in Chinese Literati painting during her studies, Brenna
has since expanded her expertise through a variety of opportunities
abroad including teaching in Florence for the Sierra College Study
Abroad program in 2007, working on Butterfield and Butterfields
Hoi An Hoard auction in Singapore, and travelling widely in Europe,
Asia, and South America. Brenna loves teaching about all types of
art, but has particular interest in the themes of visual literacy,
gender studies, postcolonialism, and the role of artistic biography in
the history of art.
Session: Artistic License or Artistic Injustice?
Kayla Carpenter
Audiopharmacy
Making music that moves the soul and stirs insight, Audiopharmacy
is a multicultural mix of
members consisting of founder Hapa (Chinese) American Teao
(producer, guitar & turntables),
Pomo Indian/African lyricist Ras Kdee (MC & keys), Pasha
Brown (MC & sampler), Italian Keepyahjoy (bass & buckets), Virgin
Islander Ras Kwome Gustave (drums & vocals) and the Native
Hummingbird, Desirae Harp (vocals). www.audiopharmacy.com
Session: Audiopharmacy Concert
Lindsie Bear
Dean Hoaglin
Carlos Geisdorff
Carlos Geisdorff is a singer and a Miwok language revitalization
activist. He is a member of the Tuolumne Band
of Me-Wuk and has worked extensively with his
community building language training programs.
More recently he has been working with the
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok to help with their
language revitalization programs.
Session: Language Revitalization Workshop
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Sierra College
Melissa Violet Leal
Maggie Steele
Maggie Steele is a distinguished professional mediator/
peacemaker. She is the founder of Seventh Generation Warriors for
Peace, an organization dedicated to violence prevention and
community wellness. Maggie specializes in working with youth to
prevent violence, gang conflict, and in promoting healing through
grass roots organizing.
Session: Creating Leadership for the 7th Generation
Thundering Moccasins
We are a dance group called Thundering Moccasins. We Dance
and Sing to help
maintain our culture,
and give strength to
those who need it.
We would like to give
you a glimpse of our
beautiful singing and
colorful dancing, in
hopes of bringing
attention to all Native
Americans. The group currently involves members of the
Potawatomi, Wintu, Pit River, Dakota, Dine, Cree, Choctaw and the
Three Affiliated Tribes.
Session: Pow-Wow Dance Demonstration and Discussion
Paul Tupaz
Cutcha Risling-Baldy Executive Director, Native Womens
Collective
Cutcha Risling Baldy is a scholar, instructor, and PhD Candidate
whose work applies Native American Studies
to feminist theory, literary theory and the
development of Indigenous methodologies.
Ms. Risling Baldy is an enrolled member of the
Hoopa Valley Tribe with ties to the Yurok and
Karuk peoples. She is a PhD Graduate Student
in Native American Studies at the University of
California Davis. She also has her M.F.A. in Fiction and Literature
from San Diego State University and her B.A. in Psychology from
Stanford University. She is the author of a popular blog that
features articles on California Indians, pop culture, representations
of Native people in mass media and self-representations of Native
peoples via social media. www.cutcharislingbaldy.com/blog
Session: Gender, Native American peoples and Womens Coming
of Age Ceremonies
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There is a $3 parking fee on campus. Permits can be purchased at the dispensers located on the parking lots.
For more information contact Matt Archer at: marcher@sierracollege.edu/ (916) 660-8033