Conference Description:

Native Teachings
A benefit for the West Berkeley Shellmound Campaign

"Thousands of years of accumulated wisdom, practical knowledge, and beauty is in the earth beneath our feet and in the hearts and practice of Native people today. Meet some of California's most skillful Native artists and highly-regarded cultural leaders for an exploration of Native California’s deep past and living present."
-Malcolm Margolin, Director of California I CAN and Benjamin Porter, Director of Hearst Museum

Native artists and cultural leaders will share personal reflections on the value of the lessons they learned, how knowledge is conveyed, and the wisdom embedded in a variety of Native institutions, beliefs, and practices. To what degree is this knowledge transferable to mainstream America? In addition, a few non-Indians who have had long and deep engagement with Indian communities will comment on what they have learned and how it has shaped their life.

Panelists include: Jennifer Bates, Ron Goode, Frank LaPena, Malcolm Margolin, Toby McLeod, Vincent Medina, Benjamin Porter, Frank Velasquez, and Linda Yamane.

For more about the panelists and this work, visit http://www.CaliforniaICAN.org.

Presented by the California Institute for Community, Art and Nature.

Please also join us that afternoon April 7th from 2-5pm at the Berkeley Art Museum, 2155 Center Street for Invitation to a Lost World: 5000 Years of Art from the Bay Area Shellmounds. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invitation- to-a-lost-world-5000-years-of-art-from-t he-bay-area-shellmounds-tickets-44534044 526.

Category: Attractions | Talks and Lectures

Price:

Sliding scale donation $10-$30: USD 20.0

URL:

Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/214904-0?pid=154

Artists / Speakers: Jennifer Bates, Central Sierra Mewuk, helped found the California Indian Basketweavers Association, organized the Indian Market of traditional artists at Tuolume Rancheria and is a teaches traditional processes and materials for weaving and cooking., Ron Goode, tribal chair of the North Fork Mono Indians, he is a cultural leader, fine artist, storyteller, and maker of traditional arts and crafts from bows and arrows to skin tanning., Frank LaPena, renowned Wintu-Nomtipom/Tenai painter, writer, singer and ceremonial leader, founded Maidu Dancers and Traditionalists and teaches Art and Ethnic Studies at CSU Sacramento, , Malcolm Margolin, Executive Director of California ICAN, founded Heyday Books and News from Native California and wrote The Ohlone Way. He is editing the West Berkeley Shellmound (Spring 2019) with the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Archaeological Research Facility, Indian People Organizing for Change and others., Vincent Medina is an Ohlone whose ancestry is East Bay, fluent speaker of Chochenyo (Berkeley’s original language), storyteller and leader in the revival and adaptation of traditional practices for the 21st century., Benjamin W. Porter is Director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the University of California, Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies Department., Fred Velasquez lives in Miwok country in the Sierra foothills. He is a longtime participant in and supporter of Miwok cultural life and is a master craftsman working in stone, bone and shell., Linda Yamane, Rumsen Ohlone, is a basketweaver, Tule boat-builder, tribal historian and language advocate who has revived the Rumsian language, an original Ohlone language from the Monterey Bay.

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm