13TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA INDIAN CONFERENCE

1998 PROGRAM

•••••••••••••••••••••••••• February 27-28, 1998 Seven Hills ConferenceCenter ••••••••••San Francisco•••••••••••••••• State University FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1998 SAN FRANCISCO ST ATE UNIVERSITY SPONSORS OF THE 1998 CALIFORNIA INDIAN CONFERENCE Fri 7:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Lobby CaliforniaStudies Program (Lee Davis, Director) American Indian Studies Program(Angela Gonzales, Chair) Fri 8:30-9 OPENING REMARKS Anthropology Department(Philippe Bourgois, Chair) Nob Hill Room

Moderator: Lee Davis (San Francisco State University, Director of the CaliforniaStudies Program) PatrickOrozco (Pajaro Valley Ohlone Tribe)Prayer CALIFORNIA INDIAN CONFERENCE STAFF Phil McGee (San Francisco State University, Deanof the College Including our wonderfulvolunteers who put in 50-100 hours of Ethnic Studies) Joel Kassiola (San Francisco State University, Deanof the College Lee Davis, Director of California Studies of Behavioral and SocialSciences) Kim Davis, Student Assistant Angela Gonzales(Hopi Tribe, SFSU, Chair of the American Aaron Lechuga Indian Studies Department) John Gatsis Philippe Bourgois (SFSU, Chair of theAnthropology Department) Stephanie Miller Carrie Altuvilla Fri 9-9:45 JACK NORTON. A PLENARY SESSION TO HONOR· Malaika Finkelstein Nob Hill Room JEANNETTE COSTO FOR HER 90th BIRTHDAY Melissa Gormley Tharon Weighill Moderator: Lee Davis (San Francisco State University, Director of Nannette Deetz the CaliforniaStudies Program) Jack Norton(Costo Chair, UC Riverside). Introductionof JeannetteCosto. Jack Norton(Costo Chair, UC Riverside). Re-evaluating the Gold Rush: A California Indian Perspective.

Our thanksto the dozens of wonderful studentand community volunteers! Abstract: This papercompares and contrasts the 1948 centennialand the We couldn't have done it without you. 1998 sesquicentennial in relationship to the historical accuracy andtruth of Euro-American invasion upon the CaliforniaIndian people. It particularly discusses the importanceof the California Educational System as a way to prepare our youth for more responsible relationships and the honoring of California Indian sovereignty.

Our special thanks to the officestaff of the History Department, Fri 10-12 VOICES OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH: A Dean Joel Kassiola, and Dr. Betty Parent. Nob Hill Room LEGACY OF CONFLICT, TRAUMA AND SURVIVAL Moderator: Jana Rivers Norton (Saybrook Institute) Jim Brown (Pomo. Elem Rancheria). A California Indian Perspective. Caroline Lehman (Humboldt State University). Images of Native California in Children's Literature. Syndi Ladd (Cherokee, Indian ActionCouncil). Impact of Historical Images on California Indian Children. Edward Castillo (Cahuilla, Sonoma State University, Native American Studies). A Tidal Wave of Greed and Violence: Indians and the California Gold Rush. Jana Rivers Norton(Saybrook Institute). Narratives of the Roberta Lacy (Ohlone) CaliforniaGold Rush: Suffering and Survival withinthe PatrickOrozco (Rumsien) Native Experience. Ruth Orta (Ohlone) (with video) Thomas Hunicutt (Humboldt State University). Sociological Alex Ramirez(Rumsien) Perspective. Judy Talaugan (Chumash. Indian Environmental Network). Panel Abstract:Coyote Hills RegionalPark in Freemont lies within the Contemporary Issues. Ohlone (Costanoan) language area, which extends from the placesnow Pratap Chatterjee(Project Underground). Gold, Greed,and known as San Franciscoan d Richmond south toMonterey, San Juan Genocide. Bautista and its environs, and inland toward the San LuisReservoir. Part of the East Bay Regional ParkDistrict, this marshlandpark includes a Pan I Abstract:Th panel provides an interactivedialogue between more than 2,000-year-oldvillage site. As partof its commitmentto � _ � an and part1c1pants regarding the impactof the Gold Rushupon California Indi an interpretthe rich, varied, and enduring, yet ch ging, cultures people. such the panel will discuss the historical, sociological, historiesof the firstpeople of thy land to the public, thePark District � an psycholo cal and personal r ificationsof Anglo-European incursion sponsorsa seriesof programswith Ohlone individuals, who share their � a_m knowledge about such aspects ofOhlonean cultures as family history, ont? tr�1t1onal homelandsbnnging severe disruption and destruction to native hfeways. In addition, a review of variousSesquicentennial events plantuse, and folkloreat Coyote Hills. Dawn Ashcroft(Mutsun Ohlone), scheduled throughout the state as well as publicationsregarding the Aaron Bachmann(Mutsun), Carol Bachmann (Mutsun), Theodore W. CaliforniaGold Rush, past and present,an d the portrayalof the California Bonillas (Rumsien Ohlone/Mutsun), T. Michael Bonillas (Rumsien/Mutsun),Lola Calles (Ohlone), JenniferA. Figueroa Indian �ill becompared and contrasted.The panel also presents narratives of surv1vor, perpetrator and rescuer within a lived context in order to give (Rumsien/Mutsun),Ramona Garibay(Ohlone), DesraLacy (Ohlone), _ voice to the traumasuffered by CaliforniaIndian people due to actsof RobertaLacy (Ohlone), PatrickOrozco (Rumsien), RuthOrta (Ohlone), aggressionand avarice as the onslaught of Anglo-American minersand Alex Ramirez (Rumsien),an d Beverly R. Ortiz(Program Coordinator) settlers brought hardshipan d disease to the native world. The narratives will describe this programseries and the cooperativeefforts between its an also serve to documentthe strength of the California Indiansto endure as Ohlone participants d the parkstaff to insure the continuance of such efforts to exploit native landsan d resources continue. Ohlone skills as soaproot brushmaking, cordage making, and traditional foods. Videotapesand slides will be shared. Fri 10-12 PAJARO VALLEY OHWNE PresidioRoom Fri 10-12 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE: WORKSHOP Sunset Room Moderator: Lois Robin PatrickOrozco (Pajaro Valley Ohlone Tribe)and Lois Robin. First Moderator: Kevin Sanders (BIA) Peopleof the Pajaro (interactiveCD presentation). Kevin Sanders(BIA). BIA Social Services and Child Welfare. Patrick Orozco (Pajaro Valley Ohlone) andLois Robin. SanBruno Ann Alton (Indigenous Nations Child and Family Agency). Indian Shellmound: An Update. Child Welfare Act: Essential Protection forIndian Nations. Other speakers TBA. Marilyn St. Germaine (IndigenousNations Child and Family Agency). Stories from the Heart. Fri 10-12 THE OHLONE & COYOTE HILLS REGIONAL PARK Troy Johnson (AmericanIndian Studies Program, CSU Long Richmond Room Beach). The State and the American Indian: Who Gets the Indian Child. Moderator: Bev Ortiz (Coyote Hills RegionalPark). (with video In theBest Interest of the Child. Shenandoah Films. (20 minute and slides) video) Dawn Ashcroft (Mutsun Ohlone) Aaron Bachmann (Mutsun Ohlone) Fri 12-1:30 LUNCH (Seethe Lunch List in Conference Program) Carol Bachmann (Mutsun) On Your Own Theodore W. Bonillas (Rumsien Ohlone/Mutsun) T. Michael Bonillas (Rumsien/Mutsun) Lola Calles (Ohlone) LUNCH-TIME EXHIBITS JenniferA. Figueroa (Rumsien/Mutsun) Ramona Garibay (Ohlone) Desra Lacy (Ohlone) Fri 12-1:30 CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETRY EXHIBIT 388 Science Bldg. Pete CrowheartSavala (Cheyenne Tribe, Los Padres, Los Angeles "A Tradition of Dexterity: California Indian Basketryfrom the National Forest). Mt. Pinos. H�enthal �o!lection". Exhibit in the Hohenthal Gallery, 388 Joe Talaugan (ChwnashTribe) Science Bu1ldmg, San Francisco State University Campus. Panel Abstract:There is a big need forindividuals especially Fri 12-S YOSEMITE EXHIBIT anthropologists to understandand respect the issues ofNative American Registration Lobby religionsand spirit uality. In Californiathere is a wide-held beliefthat CaliforniaIndians are no longer in existence. In reality there is a rapidly "The Southern Sierra Miwok and ConflictOver Land In growing populationof California Indian people who are singing, dancing, Yosemite." Exhibit by David Raymond (UC Santa Cruz, History and speakingtheir language.At the same time there areareas in this state that have beenregarded forthousand of years as religiously andspiritually Department) significant.

Fri 4-S:30 NATIVE WAYS OF KNOWING: CALIFORNIA FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27, 1998 Russian HilVfelegrapbHill Rooms

Fri 1:30-3:30 A TRIBUTE TO SYLVIA VANE ON HER 80TH Moderator: Ines Talamantez (Departmentof Religious Studies, UC Richmond Room BIRTHDAY: FOR HER WORK WITH BALLENA Santa Barbara) PRESS, CULTURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, Ines Talamantez (Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa AND FEDERAL RECOGNITION CASES Barbara) Sean M. Connors(Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Moderator: Paul Apodaca (UCLA, Folklore Dept) Barbara) Julie Cordero (Chumash Maritime Association) Lowell B� �CSU �yw�rd, Emeritus Anthropology Dept) Lauren Teixeira (Caltfornta Indian Storytellers Association) DennisKelley (Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Sue Lobo (Intertribal FriendshipHouse) Barbara) Paul Apodaca (UCLA. Folklore Dept) Malcolm Margolin (Heyday Books) Panel Abstract: While the vast majority ofmaterial writtenabout Native Ernest Siva (Cahuilla) Americanand Native Californialife ways and religious traditionsis Katherine Saubel(Cahuilla) developed and explained through Westernparadigms of knowledge(e.g. psychology, anthropology, sociology, ecology, structuralist, Janice Timbrook (Santa Barbara Musewnof Natural History) poststructuralist), panelistswill argue for development ofNative explanations ofNative Americanworldviews basedin Native systems of Fri 3:45-S:30 NATIVE CALIFORNIA FILMS knowledge (as opposedto rational, empirical,romantic, or postmodern Richmond Room philosophies). Whereasmodem Western ways ofknowing arebased in a companmentali:zation ofknowledge, many Native Americanways of From the Roots: California Indian Basketweavers. California knowing are based in anintegration of knowledge(integration of mind, Indian BasketweaversAssociation (28 minute video) culture, society, environment, etc.). A casewill bemade for a broader Pomo Basketweavers: A Tribute to Three Elders. Creative Light understanding ofhuman life ways groundedin native tenns and in native Productions. (60 minute video) ways ofknowing and doing. An integrated approach to interpreting Native American religious traditionsand ways ofliving will thereforebe proposed. Particular emphasis will be given to nativeorientations to the Fri 1:30-3:4S SACRED SITES: KEEPING OUR AREAS SACRED land. For instance, ifthe global environment is in the crisis state Western Russian HilVfelegrapbHill Rooms science is telling us it is in, then perhapsit might be wise to learn alternativesystems ofknowledge fromnon-western and indigenous Moderator: VincentFeliz (Seventh GenerationFund, Chwnash) peoples, rather than to depend on the rational, empirical, andromantic · Floyd Buckskin (Pit River, Wintu). Mt. Shasta, MedicineLake. systems ofknowledge which brought us to the crisis is the first place. TheodoreMartinez (Pit River, Wintu). Mt. Shasta, MedicineLake. Specific examples ofNative alternatives will bedrawn from Karukand Ruben Martinez(Pit River). Mt. Shasta, Medicine Lake. Chumash knowledge ofNonhem andCentral Coast environments. Monique Sonoquie. CambriaCoast. Panelist will discuss Chumash orientations in depth, especially in regard to Julian Lang (Wiyot, Karuk). Little Medicine Mountain. botanical and phannacological knowledgeas well as continuities in Chumash Brian Tripp (KarukTribe). LittleMedicine Mountain. cultureand traditions. We are especially interested in the vitality ofcontemporary traditions, but with anunderstandi ng ofthe historicalstruggles through which Native Californianshave had to struggle exposedto. It has a negativeeffect on their self esteem. This practice is racist and must be stopped. Fri 1:30-4 19111 AND 20111 CENTURY HISTORY: NEW VIEWS Presidio Room Fri 1:30-3:15 NATIVE CALIFORNIA FILMS Sunset Room Moderator: Angela Gonzales (Hopi Tribe, SFSU American Indian Studies Dept. Chair) Natinook: Where the Trails Return. Hoopa Tribe. (50 minute Henry Koerper(Cypress Community College). CaliforniaCaptains video) . . . at Carlisle. Our Songs Never Die. Shenandoah Films. (35 mmute 1deo) _ � Darryl Wilson (De AnzaCollege, CSU Hayward). Remove then We are These People. Shenandoah Films. (15 mmute video) Beyond West: The Pit River People Moved ontoPacific OceanReservation Ships. Fri 3:30-5:30 NUCLEAR WASTE IN NATIVE CALIFONIA: AW ARD Linda Yamane (Rumsien Ohlone). Throughthe Eyes of Isabelle Sunset Room VALLEY UPDATE Meadows--Vignettes of RumsienOhlone Culture andHistory. Virginia P. Miller(Dept. of Sociology& SocialAnthropology, Moderator: Philip M. Klasky(SFSU Geographyand Human Dalhousie University). Round Valley Reservationin the EnvironmentalStudies). 1930s. Philip M. Klasky (San Francisco State University Geography and M.A. Jaimes•Guerrerro (SFSU, Women's Studies Dept.). The Pit Human EnvironmentalStudies). River Indian Land FraudCase of the 1970s. Judy Talaugan (Chwnash,Indian EnvironmentalNetwork). Craig Glassner (Ranger, Alcatraz Island). Alcatraz is Indian Land. Ward Young. (with video) (with video)

Fri 4:lS-5:30 PEOPLE NOT MASCOTS: AWORKSHOP Fri 6:00 PERFORMANCE ART Presidio Room Nob Hill Room

Moderator: John Orendorff(Director, American Indian Education Host: Tharon Weighill (Chwnash) Commission) Joseph R. Talaugon (Committe for Native American Rights) ''The First San Franciscans: Depictions of Natin Californians John Orendorff(Director, American Indian Education in San Francisco Public Art" Commission). (with video) A Reception for this San Francisco State University Student Exhibit and Driving Tour Panel Abstract:This presentation will discuss and illustrate the strong opposition by Native Americans and others to the use of Indian mascots andnegative images of Native Americansin schoolsand sports. The use California Indian Storytellers . . of demeaning and derogatory American Indian mascotnames in schools, (from the California Indian StorytellersAss oc1atton) professional andall other sports activities evokes negative images that Darryl Wilson becomedeeply embedded in the mindsof children, depicting American Tharon Weighill Indians as uncivilized and violent savages. This practiceviolates all Kathy Martinez aspectsof thespirituality, culture and traditionsof native Americans.The ErnestSiva presenterswill show a video and overheadimages and have open discussion withthe audience. Theywill give some directionas to how the The SwordfishDancers (Chumash) communitygroups and individuals caneducate school administrators and z community to help eradicatethe useof thesetypes of mascots and naml:S. Tharon Weighill Jr. (head captain) Martha Rodr«:Maidu).The Making of the OhloneMural, Sat 8:30-12 CONTINUING STORYTELLING TRADITIONS IN A Berkeley, California. (slides) Richmond Room CONTEMPORARY WORLD Edward Castillo (Sonoma State). Discussant. Panel Abstract:Unacknowledged tribes which are engaged in the process Moderator: LaurenTeixeira (CaliforniaIndian Storytelling of applying for federal recognition mustdocument historical continuity andcultural identity using materials and formatsthat anthropologistshave Association) authored and usually controlled. Therfor, the recognition processimplies Lauren Teixeira (CaliforniaIndian St orytelling Association) that new formsof collaboration betweenanthroplogists and the leadership Darryl Wilson (California Indian Storytelling Association, of unackowledged tribesare necessary andbeneficial to advance the Achoma'wi) recognition process. This session will explore, on the one hand, the tribes' Kathy Martinez (CaliforniaIndian StorytellingAssociation, motivations for seeking sessionacknowled gment and how the tribesare Achoma'wi) identifying and understanding what they need fromanthropoligists and,on Ernest Siva (Serrano/Cahuilla) the other hand how anthropologistsunderstand the importanceof Kat High acknowledgemnet and areresponding to specifid tribal needs in the Jesse Riddell acknowledgementprocess. Julia Parker (Kashya Pomo and Coast Miwok) and Lucy Ann Parker (Kashya Pomo and Coast Miwok and Yosemite Miwok Sat 8:30-12 SPANISH, MEXICAN & RUSSIAN ERAS and Yosemite Paiute). Basketweavingand Storytelling. Mt Davidsonffwin PeaksRooms

Panel Abstract: How do we honor timeless storytelling traditionsin this Moderator: Betty Parent(SFSU American Indian Studies) modemworld? How do we keep storytelling. not just alive, but vibrant in Robert Perez(UC Riverside). Reinterpretingthe Kumeyaay the midst of increasingchallenges, while atthe same time supportingand Uprising, Mission SanDiego, 1775. protecting our stories and storytellersform exploitation? The panelwill StephenO'Neil. What's in a Tribal Name? Ambivalencefor a discussthe role of storytelling as it has beenin the past, how it evolved Mission SanJuan Capistrano Legacy. and will continueto evolve due to the changing needsof CaliforniaIndian Richard L. Carrico (San Diego State University). When Satan cultures in the present and into the future. In this process, we will discuss Stalked SanDiego: Diabolismand the MissionIndians of San how to create and develop the California Indian Storytelling Association Diego (CISA) as a means to preserve, perpetuate,enliven, and promote storytelling of the divers California tribes. Jose Rivera (UC Berkeley, Anthropology Dept.). The Moorish California Connection. Sat 8:30-12 ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND UNACKNOWLEDGED Stephen W. Silliman(UC Berkeley, Anthropology Dept.). Active, Burk Hall #1 TRIBES: AN ENCOUNTER. Not Passive: California Indiansin North Bay History. (PART l}ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PROCESS OF Betty Parent (SFSU American Indian Studies). Alaska Native FEDERAL RECOGNITION Migrationsto California. Breck Parkman (California Dept. Parks and Recreation).Fort Ross Moderator: Les Field (Anthropology Dept., University of New andthe Global Village Project. Mexico) Les Field (Anthropology Dept., University of New Mexico). Sat 8:30-9:45 NATIVE CALIFORNIA FILMS Introduction Burk Hall #210 Sonia Tamez (US Forest Service). California Indiansand the Again, a Whole Person I have Become. Shenandoah Films. (20 Forest Service: Sustaining Forest Ecosystems and minute video) Relationships. ThePath of our Elders. ShenandoahFilms. (20 minute video) John Salter(fr ibal Anthropologist, Karuk Tribe) Karuk Land Our Songs Never Die. Shenandoah Films. (35 minute video) Management: Strategies and Developments of the Past Five Years. Sat 10-12 MEMORY AND IMAGINATION: THE LEGACY OF David Raymond (UC Santa Cruz, History Department).Native Burk Hall #210 MAIDU INDIAN ARTIST FRANK DAY ARTIST, Californians, National Parks, and the Legacy of the Gold EXHIBIT, PROJECT AND LEGACY Rush. Bruce Crespin (JuanenoBand of CaliforniaMission Indians, Carey Caldwell (Chief Curator of History and Memory and Acjachemem Nation, BLM Native American Office). Sacred ImaginationPro ject Director, Oakland Museum of California) Domain: Tribal Perspectives in Land Use Management. (with Rebecca Dobkins ( Memory and Imagination Guest Curator and video) AssistantProfessor of Anthropology, Willamette University) Frank LaPena ( Memory andImagination Consultant andProf essor Sat 8:30-10:15 STUDENT PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES TO of Art andEthnic Studies andDirector of Native American THE STUDY OF CALIFORNIA INDIANS: SFSU Studies,Cal iforniaState University, Sacramento) AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES Brian Bibby (Memory andImagination Consultant and Russian HIIVfelegraphHill Rooms IndependentCultural Resource consultantscholar) Moderator: JoelyDeLaTorre (Lui seno Tribe, SFSU American Panel Abstract: Frank Day (1902-1976) was aKonkow Maidu self-taught Indian StudiesDept.) painter whose life, work, and teachings played a major role in the Kouslaa T. Kessler-Mata (Yokuts, Chumash). Techniques and revitalizationof north-central CaliforniaIndian dance and visual art in the Cultural Significance of Yurok Traditional Fishing. 1960s and 1970s. Day's art andlegacy are examinedin the exhibition and Stormy Ogden. (Kashaya Pomo and Tule River Yokuts) The catalogMemory and Imagination: TheLegacy of Maidu Indian Artist Frank Day is basedon the doctoral researchof Rebecca Dobkins(PhD, Politics of Name Changes: "What's In a Name?" UCB). The Oakland Museumorg aniz.eda nationaltour, a catalogwhic h Dan Golding (Quechan). When TheFir e Dims (video). fonnsthe first scholarly assessmentof Day's work, andan extensiveseri es Michael Ceasar (Pawnee). What We Have Always Known (video). of public and community andpublic programsat the OaklandMuseum. Thispanel will explore Day's legacy in California and contemporaryin Panel Abstract: The panel's main objective is to providethe audience with Native Americanart history. Additionally panelists will examine the current approaches and perspectivesas to how students are using potential for connections betweenmuseums and contemporary native American Indian Studies to enhance their knowledge,research, and peoplesand communities as exe mplifiedin Memory and Imagination understanding of CaliforniaIndian issues andconcern s. The panel of four outreach, artistin residence,youth interpreter, andpublic programs. undergraduate NativeAIS students will bediscussing their research in a varietyof using different methods andapproaches to understand and Sat 8:30-12 NATIVE LAND AND NATIVE CALIFORNIA explain their issues. Onestudent will be looking at traditional Yurok Sunset Room fishing, another will examinethe politicalaspects of mascotsand the processin changing thenames and imagesof derogatory items. Two films Moderator: Sonia Tam ez (US Forest Service) will also beshown. The firstfilm will take a lookseveral at issues (i.e. alcoholism,relocation) in California. A student will bepres enting a news William S. Simmons (UC Berkeley, Anthropology Dept.). Maidu magazinestyle videowhich focuses on the AmericanIndian Public Places: TheLong Ago in the Here and Now. CharterSchool . Michelle L. Stevens (Nez Perce-Colville ConfederatedTribes, UC Davis, Ecology Group). TheEff ects of Indigenous California Sat 10:30-12 CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON NATIVE Indian Management Practices on the Autecologyof White CALIFORNIA: A MEMORIAL TO KIANA Root (carex barbarae): ImplicationFor Restoration. DRESSENDORFER (1974-1997). SFSU Saul Solache (Chatsworth, CA). Shoshoni Ceremonial Water ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT STUDENT Holes: the Chatsworth Case. PAPERS. Philip M. Klasky (San FranciscoState University Geography and Russian HilVfelegraph Hill Rooms Human Environmental Studies).Environmental Percepti ons Across Cultures. Moderator: Tharon Weighill(Ch umash) Aaron Lechuga. The Brotherhood of Tomol. his wifePeggy havegiven over 26 yearsof their lives to makingPWT a vital centerfor Native artists. More thanjust a galleryPWT is a Kiana Dressendorfer (read by Anastasia Winslow). California crossroads where artists, community members, and supporters of Native Indian Policy. American art all gather. Through PWT Herb has helped bring important Sean Lee. Salinan Archaeology. recognition to Native California arts,and hasencouraged the career of Jan Henson and Ben Munoz. The Language of Race and Hatred many anartist. thisIn panel manypeople invol ved with PWT over the and its Consequences. years will reflecton the enonnous contributions Herb Puffer has made to Jacqueline Grawnan (Pomo). The Evolution of the Northern Pomo California Indianarts. Religion. Sat 4-5:30 NATIVE CALIFORNIA FILMS Sat 12-1:30 LUNCH (See theLunch List in Conference Program) Richmond Room On Your Own IndianMain stream. Shenandoah Films. (27 minute video) Singers of Two Songs. ShenandoahFilms. (25 minute video) LUNCH-TIME EXHIBIT Our Elders Speak. Now I Listen. Shenandoah Films. (20 minute video) Sat 12-1:30 CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETRY EXHIBIT 388 Science Bldg Sat 1:30-3:30 ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND UNACKNOWLEDGED TRIBES: AN ENCOUNTER (PART 2) TRIBAL NEEDS "A Traditionof Dexterity: CaliforniaIndian Basketry from the AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP Hoh enthal Collection". Exhibit in theHoh enthal Gallery,388 Mt. DavidsonffwinPeaks Rooms Science Building, San Francisco State University Campus. Moderator: Les Field (Anthropology Dept., University of New Mexico) Tharon Weighill (Anthropology Dept., San Francisco State SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1998 University, Chumash Tribe). Chumash-ness: An Ideology of Oppression. Sat 1:30-4 A TRIBUTE TO HERB PUFFER AND PACIFIC Linda Dick-Bissonette (Oakland University). Restoring Respect. Richmond Room WESTERN TRADERS Lorraine Escobar (Esselen Nation). Understanding the Composition of Costanoan People. Rosemary Cambra (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe) Craig Bates (Curator of Ethnology, Yosem ite Museum) (with Tim Campbell (Federated Coast Miwok Tribe) slides) James Collins (SUNY) Jennifer Bates (President, California Indian Basketweavers Association) Panel Abstract: The demands of academic scholarship requirethat Brian Bibby (Independent Cultural Resource consultant) anthropologists, paricularlyearly on in their carreers, produce certain CareyCald well (Chief Curatorof History, Oakland Museum of kinds of publications in accepted journals, followingcertain conventions. California) By contrast, cooaborative research betweenanthropo logistaand Dorothea Theodoratus (CSU Sacramento, EmeritaAnthropology unacknowledged tribes \:!Ill involve publication of materials in non­ Dept) conventional ways , and anovert vommitment on the partof the anthropologist totribal strategies rather thatn to currentaca demic theories Rebecca Dobkins (Asst. Prof. of Anthropology, Willamette andtrends. Sometimes, anthropologistsmay profess research interests University) that arenot priorities forthe tribes; sometimes, current anthropological Frank LaPena (Professor of Art and Ethnic Studies and Director of theories that areapparently favorable to Nati ve issues may not be Native American Studies, CaliforniaState University, perceived that way by the tribes;sometimes, anthropologists do not Sacramento) engage in the sameway they engage their academic col leagues; and, Malcolm Margolin (Publisher, News from Native California) sometimes, the way that anthropologists discuss and critique other anthropologists seems inappropriate to Native scholars. This session will Panel Abstract: Since its October I, 1971 opening, an event blessed by establish a dialogue about theseimportant and complex issues. Pomo basket weaverand dreamer Mable McKay, Pacific WesternTraders has beena vital part of the Native Californiaarts world Herb Puffer and Sat 3:45-5:30 LANGUAG E REVITALIZATION: PROGRESSIN CraigTorres {Tongva Nation, Ti-at Society) CALIFORNIA, 1997-98 Mati Waiya (Chwnash Ceremonial Leader, Executive Director Mt. Davidsonffwin Peaks Rooms Wishtoyo Fdn) Robert 'Hank' Stevens (UC Irvine, Anthropology and Social Moderators: Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley, Linguistics Dept.) Science) Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley, Linguistics Dept.). Matt Vera: In Diana Wilson{U CLA, American Indian Studies Center) Memoriwn. Phil Holmes (Cultural Anthropologist, SMMNRA) Linda Yamane (Rumsien Oh lone). New Lifefor a Lost Language. Roger Kelly (US National Park Service, Senior Regional Kenny Holbrook (Northeastern Maidu Tribeand Atsugewi Band of Archeologist) Pit River). Regeneration of Traditional Maidu Language. Pam Darty (Ranger, Satwiwa Cultural Center, SMMNRA) L. Frank Manriquez. The seduction of language Panel Abstract: Thisis a panel discussion regarding Chumash and Tongva Sat 1:30-5:30 CALIFORNIA INDIAN EDUCATION cultural geographies, knowledge and experience and the Santa Monica Sunset Room Mountains National Reaeational Area. Community-based cultural revitalil.3tion: cultural knowledge, practices, and affinities; survival and Moderator: Jim Lamenti (President, California Indian Education cultural continuity, research and development, restorationand return. Association) Cooperative ethnographic and oral historical research in contexts of Jim Lamenti (President, California Indian Education Association). diverse communities. Developing processesfor tribal historic We're All In This Together: A History of the California Indian preservation, cultural resourcemanagement, and public education. Decision-making and relations betweentribal/ community groups and Education Association (CIEA). non-tribal agencies (federal, state, local): tribal sovereignties, trust Luke Enemy Hunter (American Indian Charter School, Oakland, responsibility, human rights, religious freedom, intellectual property, CA) confidentiality. Discussions: community, agency and academic April Lea Go Forth (Resources forIndian StudentEducat ion, Inc.) representations. Native American Attitude andSelf Concept: Comparison of Students Who Attended and Did Not Attend Indian Education Sat 4-5:30 HUPA BASKETWEA VING: A LIVING ART Centers. Russian HilVfelegrapb Hill Rooms Edward Gomez (Yaqui Tribe, UC Riverside, Ethnic Studies Dept. and Palomar College, AmericanIndian Studies Dept.). Legal Moderator: Vivien Hailstone (Hoopa Tribe) Status of California Native Americans in Post-Affirmative Vivien Hailstone (HoopaTribe). Through the Eyes of a Action California. Basketweaver. (with Video: Life of a Basketweaver) Thomas Hwmicutt (Humboldt State University, SociologyDept.), Leo Carpenter (Hoopa Tribe). CaliforniaIndian Men's Basketry. Jack Nortoo (Hoopa Tribe, Costo Chair) and Jana Norton (Saybrook Institute). A Teacher's Source Book on Genocide: Sat 1:30-5:30 REDEFINING NATIVE CALIFORNIA CULTURE TheNative Experience in Northern California. Burk Hall #I Julie LaMay Abner (CSU San Bernardino, English and American Indian Studies) and Larry Sunderland (Director, Native Moderator: Michelle Hermann (SFSU American Indian Studies) American Institute). The Native American Institute. Henry Koerper(Anthropology Department, Cypress College). We are These People. Shenandoah Films. (15 minute video) Return of the Non-Return Boomerang. David Smith (Kashaya Pomo) and Shaina Jam es Thompson Sat 1:30-3:45 CHUMASH AND TONGVA PEOPLES' (Cherokee, San Francisco State University). Indigenous CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL CULTURAL Existence in a Tran scultural Society. HERITAGE AND THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS Elija VanDenBerg (Renegade Artists Present). Reaching Beyond NATIONAL RECREATION AREA {SMMNRA} the Bars: A Native Prisoners' Creative andSpiritual Program. Russian HilVfelegrapb Hill Rooms Kurt Peters(Et hnic Studies Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis). Santa Fe Indian Cam p, House 21, RichmoodCA: Moderator: Robert Hank Stevens (UC Irvine, Anthropology and Persistence of Laguna Pueblo Identity as Urban Laborers, Social Science, Keepers of the Treasure Cultural Council) 1922 - 1982. MarkAcuna (Tongva Nation DanceCapta in) Tressa Berman. (ArizooaState University West). Going Home: Stories of Return Migration. Deborah Dozier(UC Riverside). Feedingthe People: A New ABSTRACTS Definition of CaliforniaCulture. Julia Collie-Mason . Lost Children and Spirituality. Abner, Julie LaMay and Larry Sutherland. NAT AM Native American Institute: Delmar Dobecki (CSU San Marcos). TheRole of Male and Female Preserving the Cultural Continuum. in California Indian Society. The NATAM Native American Institute is a place of higher learning Jerry Duke (SFSU, Dance Dept). Dance Ethnology and Native California designed to preserve the cultural continuum of American Indians. The goal of the schoolis to immerse students in the applicablecultures and to Darby Li Po Price (UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies). California present the curriculum froma Native American perspective, as opposedto Indian Comedian Abel Silvas: Mime, Comedy, and a Euro-American one. Storytelling. (with video clips) Berman, Tressa. Going Home: Stories of Return Migration. Sat 5:30 CLOSING REMARKS Registration Lobby This paper considers reservation communities as "points of departure" from which thousands of American Indians migrated to cities such as Oakland and San Fransisco during the policy push of the 1855 Urban Lee Davis (San Francisco State University California Studies) Indian Relocation Act. These same communities can also beconstrued as (TBA) In remembrance of the massacre on Indian Island in ''points of return,"to which many transmi ants as a point along a two­ Humboldt Bay on Feb. 28, 1860. gr David Smith (Kashya way path of urban to reservation routes. Thesepa ths, while blazed by Pomo). Traditional Singing and Blessing fo the Event r individual American Indians since the early days of the U.S. Outing Programs, have been traveled in diverse ways, bothby individual . sojourners and their families, and later by their children and grandchildren who maintain ties to both urban and reservation homes. The comings and goings along these well-traveled corridors generate new sets of meanings and ways of constructing identities. I investigate some of the questions raisedby the generational movement of ''return" by exam ining life histories fromthe 1964 San Fransisco Urban Indian Project and present­ day "work histories" from a northern Plains reservation communitywhose membersmaintain work and familyties to California.

Carrico, Richard L. When Satan Stalked San Diego: Diabolism and the Mission Indians of San Diego. Between 1769 and 1835 the Kumeyaay and Luiseno Indians of San Diego County were subjectedto the attempts of Spanish Franciscansto convert them to Catholicism and to incorporate them into Spanish culture. To a large degreethe priests were affected by their strong beliefin the powers of _ Satan and in their understanding that Satan walked the New World. This beliefin diabolism had a profound effect on the priests' relationship with the Indian people. This paper will examine the philosophical and religious _ unpinning of the Catholic's belief in Satan, give examples from Spanish _ recordsof incidents where Satan was thought to have influenced the Indians, provide a glimpse at Indian reaction to Satanism, and suggest t�at diabolism assumed a role in the interplay between the European and Indian cuitures in San Diego in this time period.

Collie-Mason Julie. Lost Children and Spirituality. While �ch ing different pre-schoolsfor our younger children, many of them are basedon different religions. Don't get me wrong, I'm not condemning the education of different religions, but wondering if we should teach spirituality instead. Let's not condemn each other because we are of different faith,but let us unite for the well being ofour children. We may walk a different path up the mountain, but we will all reach the same absent in other groups whose cultural affiliation was more closely aligned mountain peak. The children of todayare e our future. Where are we with the Northwest Coast, the Southwest or Great Basin cultures. This going to lead them? Today, the father s are no longer home, more moms concept is borneout by correlating basket technique and design diversity are having to go to work to make ends meet. Families are beingpulled with location. Those groups closer to the center of Californiaculture apart by drugs, alcohol, and divorce. Suicide among the teens is the third employed a wider range of techniques and designs, and their basket forms leading cause of death today. Let's change this cycleof guilt, pain, fear were more developed than the baskets of groups on the periphery. and loneliness. Let's not deny the young people the chance to teach us adults the love that Jesus, our brother, was speaking about. Dressendorfer, Kiana. The CaliforniaInd ian Policy. Throughout the history the ruling populations have always succeed in Crespin, Bruce. Sacred Domain: Tribal Perspectives in Land Use Management increasing their power and wealth by suppressing less fortunategroups. In (film) America's past, this situation is disturbingly evident with the treatment of This 15-minute videotape provides an integrated view of American Indian Native Americans. As American settlers began to spread throughout the tribal values and ongoing fed eral agency approachesto implementing continent they facedthe problem of how to get the Indians offtheir natural ExecutiveOrder #13007, designed to protect Indian sacred sites. Key lands so that white civilization could flourish. With minimal knowledge elements of the Order are seen to bepart of a larger system that involves and a poor understanding of Indian societies and their livelihood,the new fe deral-triberela tionships and balancing disparate interests with Californiagovernment created policies that forced Indian offtheir lands, environmental harmony. Indian spokespersons offer tribal insights on enslavedthem and treated them as an inferior species. ginningBe in the preserving sacred places and traditional practices, highlightedby varied 1820s the American government used the land west of the Mississippi landscapes and tribal homelands of the westernUnit ed States. River as 'one big reservation'. The government called the area 'Indian Country' and forced the easterntribe s to relocatewith treatiesthat Dobecki, Delmar. The Role of Male and Female in CaliforniaIndia n Society. promised they would beleft alone. Theyeven passedthe Indian The stereotypical Native American Women is that of a passive, self­ Intercourse Act, which prohibited any white persons from entering 'Indian effacing hard working drudge. In truth, most Native American women had Country' without a license. This situation soon changed with the more power and prestige than women in other traditional societies. The acquisition of new land and the discovery of gold in the west. As position of CaliforniaIndi an women was a respectedone and she enjoyed a thousands of settlers pushed west in search of riches the promises and large measureof freedom and independence. The high status of California treatiesmade by the United States governmentwere soon forgotten. This women is surely due to her important role in the domestic economyas a was a pattern that would berepeated over again as the encroaching food gatherer. Hunting, the exclusively male activity, did not furnishthe governmentdevised new plans, which better suitedtheir greed. This essay major portion of the food supply. Rules governing the division of labor for will present an overview of the government policies towards Indians in obtaining food varied throughoutCalifo rnia,but were more stringent for Californiaand how they effected the native people. women than for men. On the whole, the work seems to have been fairly distributedbetween the sexes, yet there are many who feltthe women did Duke , Jerry. Dance Ethnologyand Native California. more. Data concerning therole of women is particularly meager and This paper is not specificallyabout CaliforniaIndians, but about ways to indefinite,and is, therefore, more liable to misinterpretation. I will try to study dance as an aspect of anthropological research. It will address ways explore the role of man as the warrior and hunter (taker oflife) and the to study the relationship of CaliforniaIndia n dancers to music, audience, role of women as the provider, nurturer, giver of life. nature, and the spiritual realm and will give examples of how to study the significance of dance to those cultures. What is this field of study we call Dozier, Deborah S. Feedingthe People: A New Definition of California dance ethnology? It is simply an organizedstudy of the dance of a people. Culture. It can be astudy of how to do these dances , but it is more important to The boundariesof CaliforniaIndian culture have long been confinedto the study aboutthem and the traditions from which they come. For to American political boundariesof the modernstate of California. I propose understand CaliforniaIndia n dancing is to come to a better understanding a new definition of Californiaculture as determinedby fourbasket forms of that rich culture and ultimately to a better understanding of one's own. used in food processing. Using the Culture Element Distributions by early Dancing simply cannot bestudied outside of the context in which it is Californiaanthropologists, Harrington, Ray, Voegelin, Eisenhart, Barnet done. Among CaliforniaIndia ns dancing is not merely recreation, and others, I mapped the use of the seed beater, the burden basket, the although that in itself is an important function. It is a reflection of life in mortar hopper, and the sifter. These four formswere used by all of the context. It is a vehice for spiritual activities on the larger scale of an entire cultures I classifyas Californian,and one or more of three formswere community, and may serve as a personal and private connection aperson may make with their own spirituality. The study of dancing gives one an idea of the things that are important - the socialvalues - and an idea of aesthetic ideals. Dance, music and art are universal human endeavors. attended Indian Education Centers an students Americanstudents in Some culturesdo not even recognize these as separate activities from the grades one through twelve from over twenty tribesmi grated/indigenous to usual tasks of everyday living. Dance is not simply something that is done Northern California. Independent, two-tailed t tests were used to compare after everything else has been addressed. Dance is done to participate in mean scores betweenNative American students. A two-part, dichotomous, the processof putting and keeping things in order - things that range self report surveywas used to collect data on self concept, and cultural and from the personal to the universal. So, to come to a better understanding academic attitude. Three questions concerningwritten student answers. of CaliforniaIn dian dancing is to get an insight into that way of lookingat Results revealedthat Native students who attended Indian mean cultural the world, understanding the forces of nature, and understanding the and academic attitude scores, that students who did not attend Indian universe. The study of the principles and theories of dance ethnology are EducationCenters. important to the study of any culture. Gomez, Edward. Legal status of CaliforniaNative American In Post Escobar, Lorraine. Understanding the Composition ofCostanoan People. Affirmative Action California Costanoan peoplehave historically been categorized as one group, one The recent attacks on AffirmativeAction programs in our state have had tribeof California Indians. An in-depthe lookat the fa cts reveal that this adverse affects on the Native American population. Therefor, I propose a is not the reality. Not only have these Indians suffered the sociological brief historical overview of how these "anti-minority" sentiments have changes generated by the missionization process and the neglectof the previously beenused illegally against sovereign Indian nations to further agencies responsible for them, but, they have had to laborto maintain their erode the independence oflndian people. This would beat starting point own identitybecause fothe labelingbestowed upon them by external at understanding current situation in our state. Once a brief background is agencies and institutions. Today, there are three major tribal groups set in place, then I could proceed to discuss current issues, foc using on the within the institutionally establishedcostanoan territory -- the Muweka areaof education. (i.e .. Wilson's plan to end programs involving Indian Tribe,the Amah-Mutsun Tribe, and the Esselen nation. As part of the education.) Finally, a discussion on where these issues are headingand criteria of the Federal Acknowledgement Process, thesetribes are required how to thwart them now. to deomstrate that they are each a "'distinct group of Indian people" -- a distinction not afforded them by this general categorization of Guerrero, M.A. Jaime. The Pit River Indian Land Fraud Case of the 1970's. "Costanoan." However, genealogicaland historicalresearch clearly In this paper, I will attempt to explain the link between land restoration supports that there is such a distinction. and the issues of autonomy (what some people call "sovereignty''). In "The Pit River Indian Land Fraud Case," thousands ofNative CaliforniaIndians Glassner, Ranger Craig. Alcatraz is Indian Land. were defraudedof their ancestral homelands in the 1970s as a result of this With the creation of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area by an act of injurious "settlement". My familywas involved in this case. It resulted in Congress in 1972, Alcatraz is today part of the National Park system. the theft ofthese lands as well as the "census extinction" of several Knownby the public primarily forthe 29 notorious years ( 1934-I 963) it California Mission peoples and their communities (called rancherias or served as a federal penitentiary, it was preserved as a historic site primarily reservations). There are those, therefore, who are still seeking redress to because of the military history from 1850 to 1933. Ironically neither of their grievances about the unscrupulous tactics that were used by the theseperiods stands out as the most significanthis torical event in the Commission, in their dealingswith these parties, as well as demanding island's history. In 1969 a symbolicfire beganon the Rockthat was soon their lands back in the name of American justice. Thecauses to restore to spread not only across the nation, but world wide. The 19-month lost homelands are linked with the issues over gam ing, as a lucrative occupationof Alcatrazby "Indians of All Tribes"was the beginningof the enterprise for an alternativecash economy, to assert autonomy that will RedPower movement. The demands of Alcatraz occupierswere heard in enable these groups to reclaim their lands back, as well as override their the highest offices of the nation. Ranger Craig Glassnerpresents the status as "extinct tribes"by pursuing "federal recognition." This is the case causes (and effects) ofthe 19-month occupation based on his studies, and for several Southern Californiapeop les, including the Acjachemen Nation on personal interviews with both participants of the occupation, and (formerlyknown as the Juanenos) in Orange County (San Capistrano area) government employees. to whom I am ancestrally relatedto on my mother's maternal side.

Go Forth, April Lea. Native American Attitude and Self Concept: Comparison Henson, Jan and Benjamin Munoz. The Language of Race and Hatred and its of Students Who Attended and Did Not Attend Indian Education Centers. consequences. This study set out to compare self concept mean scores, and cultural and This paper will discuss how the intrusion by the Europeans, both Spanish academic attitude mean scores, betweenNative American students who and Anglo-Saxon, exterminated the Ohlone Indians, literally and culturally, of California'sNorthern coast. The Spaniards, through the implementation of Christianity, used the missi_on �adrt:5. Bec�ms� the . Teacher's Source Bookon Genocidedocuments hi storic narratives ofhe padres saw the Indians as subhuman they fe lt Justified erad1cam tmg their Hay Fork Massacre of 1852 in Northern California. Thenarratives are customs and traditions. In addition, we will demonstrate how the Anglo­ integrated with philosophical, literary and sociological discussions of the Saxon wantedtot literally exterminate the California Indian so they could origins of genocide. Comparisons to other incidents of genocide, steal their land through the use of the press, rhetoric, in order to incite particularly the European Holocaust,are included highlighting the and hatred. We will demonstrate how the Anglo government's use ofl�ws_ characteristics or rescuers of victims and registers of oppression. Each courts through the implementation of rhetoric to complete the eradication topic is concluded with classroom activities, questions to stimulate critical of the Oh lone and steal their lands. We will show how the US system of thinking, and connections to current events innovative America. This capitalism was.implemented through the use of their Anglo-Sa_xon . presentation will summarize key elements of the source book with language and culture. Our paper will demonstrate that the mam vehicle guidelines and resources forcreat ing regional curriculums and integrating was religion, that insured the destruction of other c�ltures languages �nd studies with other traditional subject areas. Copies of the source bookwill way of life, in order to maintain the continuance of_its system. We will beavailable fora nominal fe e. employ the work of several theorist, as well � published works ?fthe White capitalists, in order to demonstrate this. We hope that this paper Johnson, Troy. The State and the American Indian: Who gets the Indian Child. will give other a betterunderst anding of the true history of the Ohlone In 1978 Congress enacted one of the most sweeping statutes in the fieldof Indians of California. Indian law, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). Twenty years later there is no officialCalifornia State agreement with tribes for the placement Hinton, Leanne. Matt Vera. in memoirs. on Indian children. Californiaserves also as an example of failure to Matt Vera, who passed away on February 12, 1998, was a young protect the Indian child in the courtroom. In January 1996 the California Yowlumne man who learned his language fluentlyas an adult. He was the 2nd District Court of Appeals in the case Bridget R. et.al. minors, ruled firstappren tice for the Master-Apprentice program who finished the three­ against Richard and Cindy Adams of Long Beach, Californiawho put their year program, the served as a mentor to other _lang�ge l�rners and a twin daughters Bridgetand Lucy up forado ption in November 1993, who trainer at Master-Apprentice workshops both m Cahforn1a and els�here changedtheir minds. The Adam's claim descent from the CaliforniaDry in the US (including a recent training seminarfor the Comanches m CreekPomo Indian tribe. According to the Court's ruling, the biological Oklahoma). In recent months,he was the headteacher for the newly parents have to have a meaningful social, cultural, or political relationship founded Wukchumne language immersion day-care center. There are with the tribein order forthe Indian Child WelfareAct to have any ted many language teachers and language l�e_rs in Californi� who bene� meaning. It is important to note that the ICWA contains no such language from this inspiration. Also a singer and spmtual ment?r, his leaders�•P or provision. Following on the heels of the Adams case, the U.S. House of went beyond language into other realms as we�I. H� will _be sorely missed, Representatives approved a bill in what many fe ar will render the Indian but his legacy will continuesto strengthen Cahforn1aIndia n languages and Child Welfare Act ineffective. The bill includes wording that states: "At cultural ways. least one of the child's biological parents is of lndian descent and at least one of the child's biological parents maintains significantsocial, cultural Holbrook, Kenny. Regeneration of Traditional Maidu L�gua�e. or political affiliation with the Indian tribeof which either parent is a The main topic, about which I would like to speak, 1s the 1mport�ce to me member. The change would allow state courts to decide when ICWA of having my people's native tongue carried on by futuregeneration s. applies to the adoption of Indian children, as well as determining what Maidu has almost vanished as a spoken language. The key element to any constitutes tribal membership by determining if children maintain a close culture is, of course, the language. Once that has died, gene�ation� t_o "social,political, or cultural" tie to the tribe. Who then "Gets the Indian come lose the sense of connection to their ancestors. There 1s a dr1vmg Child"? force within me to regenerate interest within my own family, as well as the rest of my people, not only to learnthe language, but also to understand Kessler-Mata, Kouslaa T. Techniques and Cultural Significance of Yurok our ancestors' way of life. Traditional Fishing. I have used the past fewmonths to research and write on the techniques Hunnicutt Thomas Jack Norton and Jana Norton. A Teacher's Source Book and cultural significance ofYurok traditional fishing. This has been on G�ocide: The Native Experiencein Northern California. strictly academic research done via an internship with Heyday books The history and consequences of genocidein North Ameri� are seld?':" (under Malcolm Margolin) and an independent study with Prof. De La discussed in classrooms. Despite the persistence of oppression, atroc1t1es, Torre. The paper focuses on the way fish are caught (nets, canoes, types of and racist attitudes towards Indians our children are generally leftto fish and other sea products), stored and preserved, and their uses (in discern for themselves the complexities of historic and current events. A ceremony, in the arts, and shells on clothing). There is mention of Dentalium and it's importance and use. As well, I will discuss the ways in which, for instance, a dugout canoewou ld bemade. There is inclusion of a of the weapon was to procuresmall game, and hence, the hunting tool is Yurok myth, Char-reck-quick-werroy (River of Death) which relates all of more commonly known as a "rabbit stick". Rem iniscences of Delfina Yurok life to the river. The idea for this research and reason for it, is Cuero provide ethnographic documentation that at least Diegueno boysand entirely due to Mr. Margolin and it is imperative that I acknowledge him, girls threw rabbit sticks in informal play activity. A recent resurgence of even now in a simple abstract. The paper is only part of ongoing research interest in strategy-on boomerangs has fo stered formal contests of we are doing on Coastal California Indians. accuracy, such as the First Annual (1997) Rabbit Stick Contest held at Malki Museum, Morongo Reservation. This paper offers background to Klasky, Philip M. Environmental Perceptions Across Cultures. the growing popularity of rabbit stick competitions by offering a short As with many cultures, Native American culture is embedded in the introduction to the distribution, history, functions, design, aerodynamics, landscape. Indigenous peoples' ties to the land are a result of long­ manufacture and throwing of Nonretum boomerangs. Further thoughts are standing cultural, religious and economic relationships with the offered regarding standardized rules forjudging rabbit stick com petitions. environment. Oral histories, expressed through stories and songs, animate the landscape and speak of historic travels, events, creation, and morality. Lamenti, Jim. We're All In This Together: A History of the California Indian A threat to Native American homeland is seen as a violation of sovereignty Education Association (CIEA). and an assault in their identity and survival. Ward Valley , located in The president of the CaliforniaIndian EducationAssociation will present the California'sEast Mojave Desert, is part ofthis homeland and is considered historicalbackground and foc us of the organimtion, and the established policies that serve within today's education framework. Thought provoking themes from sacred aboriginal territory by five regional Native American tribes. 1967 that remain today's problem will be open for audience discussion. This will Nonetheless, Ward Valley had been proposed as a site fora controversial lead into an awareness of advocacy that community, schools and parents must work radioactivedump. The state of Californiahas endeavored to build the together. dump on 1,000 acres of fe derally owned land. The proposal threatens contam ination of the Colorado River -- lifeblood of the reservations. A Lee, Sean. Salinan Archaeology. current fed eral environmental impact analysis has been charged with The Arroyo Laguna site may have once been a large prehistoric villiage determining the effects of the project on the physical, biological and site that contained a large amount of evidence which will greatly benefit cultural environment. Federal land use policies and processes should local Salinan and Californiaarchaeology. The emphases of the excavation recognize the importance of cultural landscapesand rejectproposals that and analysis of the Arroyo Laguna site are: (I) to determine the type and violate sovereignty, endanger the land, and limit future choices. importance of the site to ancient peoples and (2) to determine the lifestyle, subsistence and settlement of the people of this area of the central coast of Koerper, Henry. CaliforniaCapta ins at Carlisle. California.The Arroyo Laguna site is prom ising because of the amount of From the tum of the century into the 1920's, the integration of Indian surface findsincluding large quantitiesof groundstone. The groundstone athletes into modemsports increased dramatically, and in high profile frequency may indicate that this was at one time a permanent village site arenas of competition, Native Americanswere represented out of sustaining a large population of Playano Salinan people. Large amounts of proportion to their numbers in the larger population. This phenomenon groundstone indicate an emphasis on food production characteristic of was significantlythe consequence of Indian youths' exposure to publicly permanent settlement. The study of groundstone, flaked stone, and supported schools where games were regarded as one avenue fo r associated fe atures and the comparison to those artifacts of known Salin an mainstreaming native peoples. The athletic program at Carlisle Indian neighbors, may help answer the questions of the little known lfestyle, Industrial School, for instance, promoted recogn ition of a number of subsistence, and settlement patterns of the Playano Salinan. athletes, including several Californians, most notably Antonio Lubo (Cahuilla), Elmer Busch (Pomo), and Peter Calac {Luiseno). All reserved Leventhal, Alan. Shattering the Myth of the Unacknowledged Tribesof as gridiron captains under Coach "Pop" Warner, and at various times all California or TheSearch for Previous Unambiguous Federal Recognition: were teammates ofthe legendary Jim Thorpe. This remembrance of the The Muwekma Oh lone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay As a Test Case. Californiacaptains at Carlisle provides historical notes on both early Native California is one the most complex culture areas withing eh United century collegiate level footballand professional football. States. Much of the interpretive history on the native cultures have been generated from ethnohistrocial research derived first-handencounters Koerper, Henry. Return ofthe Non-Return Boomerang. between Europeans and Native Californians,post-statehood linguistice and Non-return boomerangs are curved throwing sticks, generally lenticular in et hnographic studies, archaeological investigations and more reet:nttr work cross section, which ideally fly relatively straight coursed to intercept with modem tribal groups who have managedto surveve as funct1onmg targets. throughout much of the Greater Southwest, the primary function communities. Many of these modem tribalcom munities are presently in the process of seeking formal Federal Acknowledgement by petioning the Departmentof Interior and attempting to meet the BIA's overly ( burdensome seven mandatory criteria that that groups exists as a, Indian Manriquez, L. Frank. The Seduction of Language. Tribe. Available to the approximately 40 Califuorniatribal groups are It is not uncommon for a person to start out with only a small interest in published and unpublishedanthrop ological, ethnothistorical, linguistic and their ancestral language, and a small curiosity. But your language seduces historic studies or accounts describing their tribe'sculture history in order you more and more into itself and into a different world, Word by word, it for them develop the narrative portion of their petition. One research transcends time and brings you into that other world and into a greater and domain that has not been critically tapped until recently by Native scholars, greater commitment. Finally, despite frustrations and discouragements historians or anthropologists who are working with Californiapetitioning that you meet along the way, you findyou can never leave it. tribes, are the Federal Arch ives containing the correspondences, reports and policies affecting Native CaliforniaTribes since the late nineteenth Miller, Virginia P. Round Valley Reservation in the 1930s. century. On such petitioning group going through the Federal The decadeof the 1930s was a depressed time all over North America, but Acknowledgement (F AP) process which began 18 years ago, is the especiallyso on Round Valley Reservation in NorthernCalifornia, where Muwekma Ohlone Tribeof the San Francisco Bay. On May 24, 1996, they the Indians had lost 75% of their land since receiving title to it ten years were one of only two CaliforniaTribes, who obtained a positive earlier. This paper discusses the Depression Era on the reservation, then determ ination of "previous unambiguous Federal recognition" by the considers the Federal Indian Reorganization Act of I 934 and the changes Branch of Acknowledgement and Research (BAR) and signedoff by the it brought to the Indians. The paper wi ll also comment on the work of Director of tribal SErvices in Washington, DC. This determ ination was anthropologists in Round Valley during the 1930s. predicated upon research conducted by the Muwekma Tribal Council and memberhsip, legal researcher, Allogan Slagle, tribal geneologist Lorraine Munoz , Benjamin. seeJan Henson Escobar and tribal ethnohistorian, Alan Levanthal. The implications for previous unambigous Federal recognition not only catapults these two Norton, Jack Re-evaluating the Gold Rush: A CaliforniaIndian Perspective tribescloser to their goal of being reaffirmed as acknowledgedtribes, it This paper compares and contrasts the 1948 centennial and the 1998 also shatters the established myth that the Ohlone/Costanoan tribes, and sesquicentennial in relationship to the historical accuracy and truth of specifically, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, were never fe derally recgonized. Euro-American invasion upon the CaliforniaIndian people. It particularly This presentation discusses some of thesehistoric processes andlegal discussesthe latency of the CaliforniaEducat ional System to prepare our implications. youth for more responsible relationships and the honoring of California Indian soverei gnty. Long, Alex. Surveyingand Salvaging Traditions. In 1903, two years after the founding ofthe University of California Norton, Jana R. Narrativesof the CaliforniaGold Rush: Sufferingand department of Anthropology, F.W. Putnam and Alfred Kroeber established Survival within the Native Experience an anthropological survey of Native California. Theysur vey, sponsored by The paper investigates the consequences of genocidal acts committed philanthropist Phoebe Hearst, provided the means fo r organizing the against the native peoplewith in California from a historical, department's disparate projectsunder a general plan and regional focus. sociologicaland psychological perspective. The paper aims to val idate the The purpose of the survey was to solve "the greatproblem of the narratives of genocideas lived within a context of community and culture, relationship of the numerous groupsoflndians in California, and their and voiced throughout the oral and written literature of survivor, relationship with peoples of other parts of the continent and possibly with perpetrator and rescuer as the CaliforniaGold Rush brought turmoil and certain tribes of Asia." This "great problem" reflected the aims of the trauma to the native experience. Boasnian ethnological survey tradition--the reconstruction of the history of aboriginal cultures. The Californiasurvey was part of this larger tradition. O'Neil, Stephen. What's in a Tribal Name?. The Californiasurvey also exemplifiessalvage ethnography, a discourse Traditional Native American social groups along the Californiacoast have concerned with documenting the languages and cultures of Native peoples been given tribal names based upon the Franciscan mission establishment believed to beeither rapidly dying out or losing their culture through they were associated with. These designations came about through an assimilation. This discourse--at times mislabeleda "paradigm," at others historical process acting on the population arbitrarily gathered to a conflated with survey methods--established the urgency and rationale for particular mission. As time went on, these loose designations for survey fieldwork. In this paper, I will distinguish between theethos of CaliforniaIndia n populations were borrowed by various specialists -­ salvage ethnographyand the methods of survey fieldwork, as it was linguists, ethnographers and governmentofficials -- since the 1850s, each practiced in Californiabetween 1903 and 1918. using these terms toward their own separate and specific purposes. Then Juanenos will be discussed as an example of this phenomena. Various social and linguistic groups were ''reduced" into Mission San Juan Capistrano, and as a whole were designated San Juanenos by the will reinterpret the uprising at Mission San Diego in 1775 . Using fa miliar missionaries. Despite changes in this community, the name stayed the documents I will show that Father Luis Jayme was ritually executed same. As social scientists came on the scene, each defined the aboriginal because it was suspected that he was guilty of witchcraft and not merely group differently but continued using the same name. In tum, the becausethe Kumeyaay people didn't like the Spanish. designation itself has an influence on the thinking of people concerning the nature of this Indian community both in the past and in their present Peters, Kurt M. Santa Fe Indian Camp. House 21. Richmond California: circumstances. Persistence of Laguna Pueblo Identityas Urban Laborers. 1922-1982 In the twentieth century, Native American societiesremain isolates at the Orozco, Patrick and Lois Robin. First People of the Pajaro. periphery of powerful, state-bound, social and economic entities. Their Patrick Orozco, yar-yea (headman) of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indians existence at the margins may bepartially self-imposed and maintained as and Lois Robin, multimedia artist, will talk abouttheir collaboration on an an act of resistance. Implicit within these acts of resistance however, are interactive CD, First People of the Pajaro, that tells the history of the threads of change woven from the fraying fabricof each contesting sociez Indian descendants living todayin the Watsonville area. With music, involved in cultural tension. this essay addresses the contact between 19 speech, text and graphics, the CD traces the group's earliest way of life century people ofthe Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and on e mechanized through their experience in the mission system to the present revival of tool of cultural change, the Santa Fe Railroad. the foc us of this mixed­ their culture. The presenters will explain their methods and process in mediaprese ntation centers on the Laguna participants playing out the creating the CD. This discussion will include their documentary, technical results of that contact in a setting as distant from the New Mexico and financial resources, as well as the obstacles and frustrations they homeland as Richmond, California, living among non-Native Americans encountered and the resolution of them. They will show the CD and as well as California tribes, yet persisting in their identity as pueblo people. discuss an unusual partnership that developed fordissemination the work. They hope to encourage others to tell computer stories of their people. Price, Darby Li Po. California Indian Comedian Abel Silvas: Mime, Comedy, and Storytelling. Orozco, Patrick and Lois Robin. San Bruno Shellmound: An Update. CaliforniaIndians historically used mime to communicate across many Patrick Orozco, yar-yea (headman) of the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian language groups. I analyze how contemporary Native California Indian people and Lois Robin, artist and environmentalist would like to share with comedian AbelSilvas, of Ajachamen and Spanish heritage, developed his you their vision forthe futureof the San Bruno Mountain shell mound. mime, comedy, and storytelling to encase the lives of his people in pre­ This mound, probably the largest and most intact in California, is colonial, Spanish, Mexican, and American eras in the San Diego area. threatened with development. It was once the site of a large Ohlone village Drawing upon ethnographic research and interviews, I compare and and cemetery. Nearby are many rare and endangered species. A Class I contrast how Silvas expresses California Indian heritage through mime, stream flows through it to the bay. You are invited to hear the current standup comedy, and comic storytelling character Running Grunion--hero status of the mound, the goals forprotection and the possibilities for of the Ajachamen. Issues addressed include cultural influences, visiting the site and getting involved with the project. development of stage characters, identity politics, multiethnic identity, and divergent interpretations. Perez, Robert. Reinterpreting the Kumeyaay Uprising, Mission San Diego. 1775. Raymond, David. Indian -White Conflict in Yosemite over land use and land A multitude of historians have addressed the role on Native people in the ownership history of California. Nowhereis this more true than in the field of the In 1864 the Yosemite Valley was granted by the U.S. Congress to the state Spanish era, or mission history. Despite this fact, I would argue that the of California as a park "for public use, resort and recreation ... inalienable vast majority of these historians have presented an incomplete, if not for all time." This land had been taken from the indigenous inaccurate view of Californiahis tory insofar as the Native people are Ahwahneechee Miwok thirteenyears before, through an invasion by U.S. concerned. One reason forthis is the misinterpretation of primary source troops. The Ahwahneechee later returnedto their homeland and continued documentsleft by the Spanish civil and religious authorities. Most of the to live as an Indian community there into the I 960s. After the modemhis torians in this field haveaccepted the findings of historians establishment of the park, there were two peoples, Indian and white, fromthe late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Bancroftand Bolton inhabiting and visiting the valley. Indians survived by working in the have merely expanded upon them rather than truly questioning any of their tourist industry and by subsistence food gathering. Both Indians and findings. My paper will demonstrate the value of reexamining these whites claimed historic yet irreconcilable rights to ownership and use of documents, in conjunctions with oral histories and other sources, in order the land. The Indians in Yosemite are treated as incidental victims of the to get a more complete understanding of specificevents. As a case study I white "discovery" of the valley. Yet from 1851 to the present, the Yosemite_ l�dians have repeatedly asserted their rights. They never signed a tr�� giving up Yosemite Valley. They resisted attempts by park Indians and indigenous people around the world in relation to an adm inistrators to restrict gathering of traditional food s, and have petitioned increasingly globalize economy and associated issues including what has Congress for one million dollars in compensation for the loss of their land. come to betenned "Biopiracy' and (4) our long-range goals for the land Todaythey are seeking an Indian-controlled cultural center in Yosemite ' and the Karuk people. Valley, and petitioning the Federal government for recognition as the Yosemite Indian tribe. Silliman, Stephen. Active, not Passive: California Indians in North Bay History. Rivera, Jose lgnaciao. The Moorish CaliforniaConnec tion. The period of 1830-1850 marked an important landmark in California The Moors brought Islam to Spain, and occupied it force nturies. Via Indian history as it ushered in mission secularization the zenith of Spain and Mexico, the Moors havein fluenced Californiatradition. This Mexican ranchos, the departure of Russian coastal se�lements, the United paper will review some of the Moorishcultural influences which became States immigration to and annexation of California. Though often incorporated into the California Indian colonial experience. unrecognized in traditional "histories", California Indians were active hist ricalactors n, rather than passive recipients of, the mid- 19th century. Risling, Dali. Tribal Government, Federal Indian Policy and the Advancement � ( To 1llustrate, I will concentrate on the region north of San Francisco Bay, ofTribal Sovereighty. _ foc using on the Hispanic colonial establishments at Sonoma and Petaluma. The presentation will cover issues relating to trbla sovereighty and tribal Though these locations have been considered in many historical works, �o�en:i ent. Discussion will foc us on challenges to tribal authority and � California Indian participation in and reaction to these settlements requires JUrtsd1ctton as well as ways to strengthen tribal sovereighty. Various further consideration. To begin this process, I will present new insights examples and experiences will be given. Some discussion will relate to the garnered from current archaeological excavation, under-utilized historical use of anthropology in the defense of Indian rights. The discussion will be accounts, and archived ethnographic notes. summed up by pointing out various fe deral refonn that can assist in the advancementof tribal sovereighty. Simmons, William S. Maidu Places: The Long Ago in the Here and Now. The paper will beabout the significance of pre-European locations in the Robin, Lois. see Patrick Orozco. lives of contemporary Maidu in the Susanville area -- where a modem American landscape has been superimposed on their ancestral world. Salter, John. Karuk Land Management Strategies and Developments of the Past Five Years. Solache, Saul. Aztec and Purepecha Indians/French and Portuguese: Oral For th� past several t o�sand years, the Karuk tribe has traditionally � Tradition/ Birth Certificate occupied some 1.4 mtlhon acres in northwest California. Thesesame The specialized literature presents an "outstanding void", that of the lands are currently �anaged by the U.S. Forest Service. In recent years, "specialized utilization of water" within the cultural areas of the d�e to decades of mismanagement by the agency, a series of interrelated prehistorical time. Nevertheless, the prehistoric populations located within crises have developed. The land has become subject to cycles of the Northern partof"B aj a California" and the North American West Coast catastrophic fires due to the suppression of traditional Karuk land -- Chatworth offers a valid example, and is 240 milesnorth from La management while a largely fictional "multiple-use" policy has been Rumorosa -- left evidence that a technique was developed to assure the overwhelmingly devoted to subsidized production of soft wood timber sustained flowand/or storage of water on a year-long basis. The water based firplantations. By the beginningof the present decade numerous holes are perforated in white granite at La Rumorosa and 40 miles south it species had declined to the point of threatened extinction and' ensuing is to say, close to 300 miles south from Chatsworth, where the perforati�n p�litical cris�s led to the President's Forest Plan and the choice of Option was done in sandstone. Both areas present "similar characteristics in size, ine to put �nto pl�� alternativeenvironmental policies. This paper will N_ shape, volume, and technique. And according to a Kiliwa Indian, they discuss certain trad1t10nal practices of environmental management ant the exist within their actual communities at a distance of 300-400 miles south strategies by which the Karuk Tribe has assumed an active role in the co­ of the USA/Mexican border. The Great Basin offers the possibility to management of the land. Among the points considered for this extend it to the Canadian border. presentation are the following: (1) the work of the Natural Resource Department of the Karuk Tribe dealing with issues of forest health and Stevens, Michelle L. The Effects of Indigenous California Indian tribal sovereignty in a period of changing fe deral directions and strategies; Management Practices on the Autecologyof White Root (Carex (2) the I?ythof the "expert" �nd the reality of traditional land knowledge barbarae): Implications for Restoration. and fee ling for the land; (3) links between the struggles of California The study's overall objective is to identifythe effects of CaliforniaIndia n horticultural practices on the autecologyof whit rootpopulations in low elevation riparian woodlands. Basket weaving supports the cultural and spiritual identity of Indian people. White root is one of the most important pride is shown through active participation in dance ' language and plants to California Indians for basket weaving. Traditional gathering sites storytelling. and white root populations have been seriously reduced throughout the historic range. Many basket weaverscannot obtain the materials they need Van den Berg, Elija. Reaching Beyond the Bars: A Native Prisoners' Creative due to lack of access to gathering sites. White root habitat (valley oak and Spiritual Program. riparian woodland) has been reduced to less than 5 percent of its original The topic I would like discuss is Native American prisoners in California area, and is a restoration priority. Whiteroot is an excellent indicatorof and their spiritual and creative need. I have workedfor and with Indian both cultural and ecological health. Through ethnographic interviews, artists (�ho are incarcerated), for over 4 years. I have beenstruck bythe participant observations and evaluations of material culture, I have �ysfun�tmnal �ckgroundsmany of these artists came from,resulting in documentedthe traditional uses and horticulturalmethods still utilizedor h� with unsat1sfactory_p_rospects. I realize that many aspectsplay a role rememberedby California Indians. Both field and mesocosm experiments leadmgt � t!'e poor cond1t1ons Indian people are living under, but I have simulate cultural harvesting methods to determine their effects on plant the conv1ct1on that steps are possible and should betaken to alleviate these growth and morphology. This data will contribute to developing a �ditions. It is f� this reason,that I tookthe initiative to start a charity, sustainable use modelof tendedwhite rootbeds, evaluating biomass m t�e fir�t place directedat establishing creativeand spiritual programs for lnd an risoners . The purpose of this charity is: Prevention-- support exploitation per use area. This prototype will demonstrate the importance � p . of traditional indigenous white root tending practices to restorationand du!1�g 1�carcerahonby means of enabling self-expression through art, conservation fromboth a scientificand cultural perspective. spmtuahty and study of heritage, support afterrelease to retain assertive and balanced personality, and to bring in Native spirituality for the Tamez, Sonia. California Indians and the Forest Service: Sustaining Forest incarcerated. I am convinced that the actions of this charity will not only Ecosystemsand Relationships. beof benefit in terms of prevention of and rehabilitation during and after The Forest Service is consulting with tribal governments and traditional incarceration, which will work out less expensive in tax dollars fo r the practitioners in order to address agency responsibilities and to better community as a whole. It is my firm conviction that the total American manage fo rest ecosystems. Recentpolitical developments have placed community could bebeneficially affected through the opening of new roads more emphasis on government-to government relationships. Concurrently, fo r an inter-ethnic exchange of cultural, religious, and social expressions. relationships have expanded with bothgovern ment and traditional leaders Also, the fact thatinstead of perpetualcrime, a lot of the Native prisoners regarding management of lands now managed by the forest service. Many are rehabilitated this way is in the interestof the total community. traditional tribal leaders have knowledge and continuedinterests in these forest landscapes. Access to and use of certain plants, animals, and Wilson, Darryl. Remove Them Beyond the West. locations are critical to the cultural, economic, and political survival of This is a fragment ofthe history of my Native people, the /ss (Achomawi) tribal communities. Restoration and maintenance of fo rest landscapes are and Aw'te (Atsugewi) of California, containing in-depth research into also dependent on indigenous knowledge. This paper examines legal military records, newspapers and other documentsof "gold rush" developments and how an agencyis meeting the legal and cultural that are California. Achomawi and Atsugewi are academicidentifi cations for my part of forestecosystem management. Specific examples illustrate how tribes;Pit River Tribeis the title for political purposes. This study is based traditional forest management is beingreintroduced in certainlocations, in on an original narrative of Niee Denice, a person born on Lost Creek in collaboration with tribal leaders. the Hat Creek/Pit River area of northeastern Californiain 1855. Niee Denice was later named Sampson Ulysses Grant by Basque ranchers who Thompson, Shaina James and David Smith. Indigenous Existence in a took him in during his flight fromco nfinementat the Round Valley Transcultural Society. Reservation. Sampson Grant's story begins as a child. His familywas This paper is one in a series discussing the problems and possibilities rounded up as part of a continual effort by the military and the vigilante encountered by Indigenous people in today's society. The authors attempt "Guards" throughout Californiato erase the Native people fromthe earth. to deconstructthe image of the Post-ModernNative American. Examined Another reason was to open the land to settlement, and to eliminate any are the marginalization of Indigenous peoples and their subsequentfight resistance to boththe search fo r gold and claiming ofland by for personal recognition. The viewpoints given are through the voice of an EuroAmericansas they migrated from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Indigenous female graduate student and a Kashaya Pomo Cultural The Pit River people were marched to Fort Reading (Redding) in the Consultant. Discussed are the fragmentation of Indigenous students while Sacramento Valley, then south to Sacramento where they were put aboard balancing betweentwo worlds. Issuesof identity, transculturalism and ship. The people were then marched to Round Valley Reservation. spirituality are addressed. A reconstruction of tribal identity and cultural Sampson Grant gave the original narrative to his daughter, Lela Grant, in the Itsat-wi language. She, in tum, translated the narrative into English for her children. I am working with Reitha B. Amen, Lela's daughter, to bring this history to the surfaceand in order to preserve it for the LUNCH PLACES generations that follow. INWALKING DISTANCE OF THE CONFERENCE CENTER Zft&llt's Survey 1998: SanF ranciscoBay Area Restaurants is a comprehensivelist of SF Yamane, Linda. Throughthe Eyes of IsabelleMeadows--Vignettes of Rumsien restaurants. It is fo r sale in the Registration Areaof the Conference Center. Ohlone Culture & History. Through narrative, song and native language, the audience will learna bit ON SFSU CAMPUS aboutIsabel le Meadows, infonnantto J.P. Harrington, and get a glimpse of Rumsien Ohlone culture and history. Born on the day the Americanflag t. City Eats Cafeteria (located at Conference Center) was raised over Monterey'sCustom House, Isabelle Meadows witnessed FRI: 7:15-9:30am, l 1-2pm, 4-7pm. SAT: 7:30am-lpm, 4:30-6:30pm radically changing times for Monterey's Indian people. Through the 2. The Pub (locatedat Conference Center) recollectionsof her mother and grandparents (all born and raised in the FRI: I I-2pm, 4:30-1 lpm. SAT: Closed 3. Taco Bell (in entranceof Mary Park Residential Housing) Cannel mission), the collective body of cultural knowledge shared within FRI: until 2pm. SAT: Closed her community, and the experiences of her own long life, Isabelle's 4. The Student Union hasmany good places to eat. knowledge spanned a remarkable breadth of time and events. She shared FRI: open all day. SAT: Few open much of this throughout her years of workwith Harrington, making it • Asia Express (Chinese food ) possible for thoseof todayto learnfrom the past. •Natural Sensations (Smoothies, Sandwiches) •Italian Creations (Pizza) Yamane, Linda. New Life for a Lost Language. •New York Minute (Sandwiches) How doesone go aboutlearning a language that has all but vanished? The •The Pub (Sandwiches, Beer) •Gold Coast Creations (Mexican, Salads and Grilled Foods) presenterwill chronicle the processesthat ledon the path to finding and reviving her ancestral Rumsien Ohlone language. With no living speakers STONESTOWNSHOPPING CENTER (5 minute walk from the Conference Center) to learn from, she turnedthe to past, tapping into ''voices" preserved on paper decades earlier. Finding little in the way of organized language At the Main Entrance of Stonestown Shopping Center materials, she has had to start from scratch, starting from a simple •Olive Garden (Italian food ) 661-6770 foundation of vocabulary and building upon it to beginreconstruct ing •Chevy's (Mexican food ) 665-8705 pronunciation and grammar. Theresult has been an important understanding. We don't needjust another way of sayingthe samethings. la the Food Court insideof Stonestown Shopping Center •CaliforniaCrisp (Salads, Soups andSandwiches) 564-4254 Rather, language is a key to culture, with the power to connectus through • Center Court Cafe (Coffee/Pastries) 566-091 1 time and open the world of the past. •Great Steak & Fry Co. 564- 0535 •Hot Dog ona Stick (800) 321 -8400 •Panda Express (Chinese) 665-9700 •sharro (Pizza/Pasta) 735-9919 •Sorabol Korean Cuisine 753-5959 •sundaes Yogurt Plus 753-5521 •Surf City Squeeze(Juice Bar) 759-0780 •Tortola (Mexican) 566-4336 •yes Burgers & Malts 759-6328