Tule Elk Park

Thursday, May 3/

3:30-5:00/

Aurora Mamea and Istuye Montez (Blackfeet)

Jingle Dress Exhibition Dancing Style,

Dolores Park Launch

Saturday, May 5/

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe

Ed Castillo,

Andrew Brother Elk/NACC & NPC

Education, History, Political Focus

Visitacion Valley Greenway (Hans Schiller Plaza)

Saturday, May 5/

Anno Elkhart(Sami)and Loren Nakai (Dine)

Dance and Singing,

Sami and Dine (Navajo) songs and drumming

Jingle Dress Dance & Fancy Shawl Exhibition

Holly Park

Sunday May 6/

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Tuesday May 15/

Bocana and Holly Park Circle

Both dates: Eileen Boughton (Pomo) & Val Shadowhawk (Cree/Blackfoot/Choctaw/Missouria)

May 6: Walter "OGI" Johnson(Potawatomi/Ho-chunk)

Wally: Stories and historical background of the Native American flute. Wally has an exte4nsive collection of flutes and stories to match. And its attributes to the various tribes from North American to Central American (Mayan/Aztec)

Eileen Boughton - Pomo Pnaci culture and exhibition dance styles

Glen Park

Saturday May 12/

CIBA (Californian Indian Basketweavers Assoc.) -

Kathy Wallace (Karuk/Yurok,Mohawk)

Kimberly Stevenot

CIBA will offer a Basketweaving Demonstration - An impressive display of various labeled basket & materials - representing a variety of California tribes, a video of Vivian Hailstone(highly respected weaver) and be available to answer questions and speak on how styles have changed among tribes.

Brooks Park

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Saturday May 12/

Sage LaPenya(Nomtipom/Tunai Wintu )

Sage will be speaking about native plants and their traditional uses. She will also discuss her role in planning, propagating and installing a basketweaver's garden of Native plants in Sebastopol, CA as well as her personal cultural history of apprenticeship with elders - teaching and understanding of the traditional ways of California Native peoples.

Buena Vista Park

Monday May 14/

Ben Cunninham (Moutain Madiu)

Kimberly Cunningham(Tslagi,)

Clarence Hostler (Hupa-Yurok-Karuk)

Ben - An overview of traditional elderberry flutes and cane whistles – their making and usage within California and by its Native peoples.

Kimberly – will present a history of Northern Mewuk peoples and culture that also exhibits her storytelling/folklore knowledge and traditions.

Heron’s Head Park

Tuesday May 15/

Lucy & Julia Parker (Coast Mewuk -mother/daughter)

Shell work, acorn preparation, traditional uses of plants

Muwekma Ohlone Pocket Park

Saturday May 19

Tulare St.(near Third and Cesar Chavez)

(3.4 megs Quicktime)

Shadowlight Productions

(880 K Quicktime)

Shola Giles(Catawba, Cherokee& African American )

Monique: <Monique will premier her sort oral history documentary film : "The Beginning of Chumash" with computer art and talk about the process of creating this film featuring several Chumash elders – narrating and singing their oral histories and traditions. This film also keeps alive the Chumash creation stories and language.

Shadowlight Productions - we will show shorts of Shadowlight Productions Project :Tales from Native California featuring Clarence Hostler & Charlie Thom - a preview of same film showing at Koret/SF Library on May 15^th

Shola Giles - we will show Gile's( recent U.C. Berkeley Native graduate) award winning film short (Berkeley Film Festival) on Indigenous women & Bay Area Native Community/Powwow circuit.

Strybing Arboretum

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Saturday, May 20/

Sage La Penya (Nomtipom/Tunai Wintu)

Walter "OGI" Johnson (Potawatami/Ho-chunk)

Wally: At Strybing Arboretum, Wally will demonstrate a two hour workshop on how a flute is made from raw cane, through heat treating processes to the final product with a short lecture and performance. Wally will be telling stories as he constructs the flute on how the flute can heal through its music.

Sage: Native Plants -trained at the feet of such elders as Mabel MacKay(Pomo/Wintun) & Julia Parker; gatherer, medicine-maker, dancer & weaver LaPena will share her extensive knowledge of Native plants (ethnobotany) and their traditional uses in her culture - "The roots of our culture are contained in the roots of the plants"

Koret

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Tuesday, May 15

Setup: 4:oo pm

Doors Open : 5:30 pm

Event :6:00 - 7:30 pm

News from Native California's Malcolm Margolin/MC

Charlie Thom & Clarence Hostler - narrating & hosting film and Q&A

Maide flutist - Ben Cunningham

A Mid-month celebration of our total Collaborative: "Weaving with Roots" to honor Native California - featuring Native prayer, film, stories, song & narrative

3^rd Annual

Native Contemporary

Arts Day

Sunday,

June 3rd

Yerba Buena Gardens

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - 3^rd & Mission

A Free family event

Native Music, Dance, Art, Craft workshops

Medicine Warrior Dancers

California Traditional Pomo Dancers

Native Flute Player - Wally Ogi Johnson