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POW WOW CALENDAR 2010

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  • 05/01/10 - 05/01/10: 35th Annual SFSU Pow-Wow. San Francisco. Jack Addams Hall in Cesar Chavez. 1600 Holloway Ave.. Headman Eddie Madril...The rest TBA. More updates coming soon! contact for more info!. Lina Trujillo. . TBA skins@sfsu.edu
  • 05/01/10 - 05/01/10: 2nd Annual American River College Powwow. Sacramento. American River College. 4700 College Oak Dr.. 10am-7pm. (in the back of campus next to play fields and creek)Free event Contest dancing Native American Food All Drums Welcome, Authentic Native American Crafts, . . 916-484-8987 or 916-484-8253.
  • 05/01/10 - 05/02/10: 25th Annual PowWow at UCLA. Los Angeles. UCLA North Athletic Field. Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza. Head Staff: Bear Springs Singers- Northern Drum, Sooner Nation- Southern Drum, David Patterson- Head Man, Tiffany Jackson-Head Woman, Victor Chavez- Arena Director, Lambert Yazzie-Head Judge, Mike Reifel- Master of Ceremonies, Jimi Castillo-Spiritual Advisor, California Golden State Gourd Society, Mountain Cahuilla Bird Singers Free Admission, Dancing and Singing Contest, Miss UCLA Pageant Encouraged to bring own canopy and chairs, absolutelty no drugs or alcohol, no overnight camping, parking $10/day. Liz Fasthorse. 310-206-7513. powwow@ucla.edu
  • 05/01/10 - 05/02/10: 26th Annual California Indian Market & Peace Powwow. San Juan Bautista. Elementary School. Elementary School Lot on The Alameda. Fine Arts & Crafts, Dancers, Drums, Native Food, Family- Oriented, Clean & Sober event.. Laynee Reyna. 831-623-4771. www.peacevision.net peacevision96@yahoo.com
  • 05/15/10 - 05/16/10: 3rd Annual All Nations Acton PowWow. Acton. KOA Campground. 7601 Soledad Canyon Road, Acton, CA 93510. Open to the Public All Drums, Dancers & Vendors Welcome Traditional Style PowWow Vendor Info. available. Debbie Rambeau. 818 365-2422. drambeau@fromearthtohand.com
  • 05/21/10 - 05/23/10: 1st Annual Memorial Powwow. Susanville. SIR GYM. 845 Juaquin Street. 1st Annual Honoring our Ancestors & Veterans Memorial Powwow. Dance Contests $ 16,500 in Prize Money Hand Drum Contest $ 1,000 in Prize Money-NO ENTRY FEE Hand Game Contest $ 2,000 Winners Take All--Entry Fee. Veterans Breakfast Saturday & Sunday. Vendor Spaces Available! 1st Come 1st Served- Daily Drum Pay $ 150 for first 5 drums. White Eagle Host Drum. Diamond Mountain Casino & Hotel Special . Donna Clark. 530-257-5449. www.sir-powwow.com information@sir-powwow.com
  • 05/29/10 - 05/30/10: Oroville Pow Wow. Oroville. Plumas Ave. School. 401 Plumas Ave.. Community contest Pow Wow with Food, Arts/Craft vendors and prize drawings.. Lucky Preston. 530-532-1611. orovillepowwow@live.com
  • 06/04/10 - 06/06/10: Standing Beart Powwow. Bakersfield. Bakersfield Collage. 1800 Panorama Drive. Native American Arts and Craft Vendors, Drumming, Dancers and Cultural Demonstrations. Eugene Albitre. 661-589-3181. standingbearpowwow@yahoo.com
  • 06/11/10 - 06/13/10: 10th Annual Table Mountain Rancheria POW WOW. Friant. Table Mountain Casino Grounds - Next to Casino. 8184 Table Mountain Road, Friant , CA 93626. MC - Tom Phillips AD's - Art Martinez and J.R. Manuel Coordinator - Eugene Newman Head Golden Age Man Dancer - Saginaw Grant $40,000 in cash prizes Specials - Drum Contest Arts and Crafts Vendors Free admission to the public All dancers and drums welcome Please bring your own chairs please no pets. . 559-822-2890 daytime, 559-284-4701 evening.
  • 06/20/10 - 06/20/10: Red Circle First Annual Father's Day Powwow. Stockton. Oak Grove Regional Park. 4520 W Eight Mile Rd 95209. Time 11:00am to 9:00pm Gourd 11:00 am Grand 12:00pm PARKING IS $5.00 All Drum & Dancers Welcome Native American Food Jewelry Art and Crafts 50/50 Raffles COMBINED DANCE CONTEST PRINCESS CONTEST. Leonard Robles. 209 663-0923. chumash1@sbcglobal.net
  • 10/02/10 - 10/03/10: Honoring Red Road Sobriety. Yountville. Yountville Veteran Home Picninc grounds. 100 California Dr. 17th Annual Pow-wow Honoring Red Road Sobriety All Drums welcome! California traditional dancers, competitions all dancers and singers welcome.Free open to the public. vendors food crafts family fun two days . Charlie Toledo. 707-256-3561. www.suscol.natveweb.org suscol@suscol.net


Bay Area Indian Calendar April 7, 2010

Thanks to American Indian Contemporary Arts for the calendar. More info is linked to the Bay Native Circle page at www.kpfa.org. To include events in the calendar send TEXT info to janeenantoine@mac.com or post on the Bay Area Native American Indian Network. The calendar is not emailed every week. If you wish to see the current calendar click here and bookmark for future reference. The link to the calendar seems to be not working right now. Hopefully that will be corrected soon. Thanks!


Bay Native Circle airs on kpfa 94.1 Wed 2 – 3 pm. Hosts rotate weekly with 1) Lakota Harden; 2) Janeen Antoine; 3) Morningstar Gali or Ras K’Dee and 4) Gregg McVicar. BNC is live at 94.1 -- and podcast, and online, everywhere, anytime at kpfa.org. Thanks to our listeners for your support! This week features Janeen Antoine with guests Jack Kohler and high school senior Janessa Starkey on her film “Behind the Door of a Secret Girl” and Titus Frenchman on the Native American Warrior Society’s Gourd Dance Benefit for Care Packages for active native military. Music by Joanne Shenandoah, gourd dance singers, and Jeremy Good Feather. Program is archived online for 2 weeks.


UPCOMING

“I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.” Wilma Mankiller. The Bay Area Indian Community mourns the passing of a beloved leader who had early ties to the Bay Area. She lived with faith and resolve in her personal and public life and was an inspiration and friend to many. Condolences are extended to her husband Charlie Soap and family.

Brian Tripp at Gallery Paule Anglim in SF, through May 1, 2010. 14 Geary Street, San Francisco. www.gallerypauleanglim.com 415.433.2710. An honored figure in his Northern California Karok community, Tripp’s drawings and small paintings in the show provide new looks at imagery familiar to the artist and Native American tradition. Motifs from basket work, arrowheads, ceremonial objects and Karok regalia created with paint, foil, glass, found objects and natural materials are invigorated with vibrant color and formal geometry. The exhibition also features some of his books and drawings that recall legendary "ledger drawings" made by Native Americans displaced from their tribes and lands who when given old accounting ledger books, kept distant images alive by drawing their past lives and native lands.

Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 - 8:30pm, Drum Class with Sam Lopez. All ages. Free and fun. Native American Health Center, 260 23rd Street, Richmond, FMI 510.232.7020

Wednesday, April 7, 7:00-9:00 pm Reimagining Queer Indigenous Bodies: A Night of Artistic Expression a program of Native American Culture Days celebrates, honors and increases visibility of the Native & Indigenous Queer & Two Spirit Communities with Cuauhtemoc Peranda, Marlon Footracer, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu and Richard Kereopa. Griffin Lounge, Memorial Union, UC Davis.

Pennie Opal Plant poetry reading, Wed April 7, 7-7:30 pm; Alameda Island Poets, 2245 Southshore Center Drive, Alameda. FMI: 522-6442 or 418-0266. Her poetry has been published in "Talking to Goddess, Powerful Voices from Many Traditions", 2009, and her poetry and art will be published in the forthcoming anthology, "Turtle Island to Abya Yala, an Anthology of Love by Native American and Latina Women", 2010 Open Mic to follow.

NiuPasifik: Urban Art from the Pacific Rim Curator Giles Peterson Talk & Reception: Thurs, Apr 8, 4-6p. Contemporary art from New Zealand and the Pacific Rim from the personal collection of curator and educator Giles Peterson including artwork from Aotearoa, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Apr 6 – Jun 13. CN Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall,One Shields Avenue, UC Davis. http://gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu, 530.752-6567

Presentation: Sacred Sites of the Bay Area.& BBQ Community Dinner, Thurs, April 8, 2010, 5:30 - 7:30 pm. IFH, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. Shellmound the Movie, documentary film by Andre' Ciedel about the destruction of the Emeryville Shellmound, one of the oldest and largest burial sites and sacred sites of the Ohlone People. Corrina Gould and Wounded Knee DeOcampo discuss the sites and ongoing work to protect and preserve what's left of the over 425 burial sites known to be in the Bay Area in 1909.

Medicine Warriors All Nations Dance Practice, Thursday, April 1, 7-9 pm, Intertribal Friendship House, Free, Everyone Welcome, 523 International Blvd. Oakland

CIBA presents Master Basketweaver Clint McKay (Pomo/Wintun/Wappo, CIBA Chair) April 9 - Lecture 7 - 8:30 pm, April 10 - Teaching 10 am - 4 pm, April 11 Teaching 9 am - noon. Ages 10+ . From a strong weaving tradition taught by his family Elders, Laura Somersal and Mabel McKay, Clint teaches the traditions of Pomo coiling, twined, open work and baby cradles. He will share his expertise in how to make traditional willow work baskets. CIBA Members: $200, non Members: $250 Includes $50 materials fee., Lecture only: $50. CIBA, 1005 Court Street, Woodland, 530.668-1332. www.ciba.org.

UC Davis Native American Culture Days hosts a Sunset Ceremony and Dinner honoring Dr. Jack Forbes. Friday, April 9, 6-8:30 pm. Professor Lehman Brightman, National President of United Native Americans Inc. will speak. Putah Creek Lodge, UC Davis.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents Independent Inuit Cinema. April 9, 11 & 17.
Igloolik is a community of 1,200 people located on a small island in the north Baffin region of the Canadian Arctic with archeological evidence of 4,000 years of continuous habitation. Throughout these millennia, with no written language, untold numbers of nomadic Inuit renewed their culture and traditional knowledge for every generation entirely through storytelling. These three brilliantly original films express the dramatic history of one of the world's oldest oral cultures from its own point of view. “Before Tomorrow” film screening with director Marie-Hélène Cousineau in person. Fri, Apr 9, 7:30 pm Before Tomorrow is set in 1840, a time when many Inuit had yet to meet white people and thus maintained their traditional way of life. It is a tender, affecting tale of a small boy and his beloved grandmother, caught between the harsh Arctic wilderness and first contact with the outside world. (2009, 93 min, digital video) Tickets: $8.00, (Small theatre, advance purchase recommended.) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St, San Francisco. www.YBCA.org, 415-978-ARTS.

The 38th Annual UC Davis Powwow, ARC Pavillion. This year's theme is Honoring Our Elders. Saturday, April 10, 9 am - 12 midnight.

Mills College Native Alliance Pow Wow, Toyon Meadow, Mills College Campus, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613 Saturday, April 10, 10 am - 6 pm. Traditional dances this year include: grass, Azteca, and hoop. Native American arts and crafts available.

Native American community supports Census 2010. Walk to the Broadway mailbox and support your count in the Census 2010. Sat, April 10, 11:30 am -1pm. Meet at the Native Wellness Center and walk with us. 260 23rd St, Richmond. Free census T-shirt, cap, etc. FMI.510.232.7020.

Managualil Taulepa , Lenca Indian Chief from the Central American Region Makes Diplomatic Visit, Saturday, April 10, 12 noon - 3 pm. Everett Middle School Auditorium 450 Church Street, San Francisco. FMI: David Escobar: 415.933-1492.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse at SF Green Festival, April 10, 2pm, Main Stage 2012: Time for Change Panel. Also Sunday, April 11, 2pm, on Main Stage Tiokasin Ghosthorse Tree Roots Consciousness. Also, on after film panel. Film: "2012: Time for Change" a radical alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee Joao Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl,” on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. Sat, April 10 at 7pm - Landmark Lumiere Theater, 1572 California Street San Francisco. Seating limited - reserve ASAP. After-Party Sun, April 11, The Sera Phi Center, 1117 Howard Street, San Francisco. Admission $10—or free with movie ticket stub. Tiokasin Ghosthorse, from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota, is host of First Voices Indigenous Radio on WBAI NY - Pacifica Radio.

Pacific Western Traders is at the “Second Saturday on Sutter Street” event in Folsom, Saturday, April 10, 4 - 9 pm, and at 305 Wool Street with exhibits: traditional Paiute basketry by Everett Pikyavit, paintings by Jack Alvarez, Frank LaPena, and Gerald Stone plus a new collection of Zuni fetish carvings.

True Color Mural Project led by Juana Alicia, Saturday, April 10, 7 pm, Casa Latina 1801 San Pablo Ave Berkeley. 510.859.9154. The Mural Project will be painting its newest mural, an amazing and colorful celebration of social justice movements, on the Inkworks Press Building in West Berkeley.

“Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner,” Sun, Apr 11, 2 pm. Winner of the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, the first feature in the Inuktitut language is an epic account of an Inuit blood feud, shot on DV in northernmost Canada. Mysterious, bawdy, emotionally intense and replete with virtuoso throat singing, this three-hour movie is engrossing from first image to last, so devoid of stereotype and cosmic in its vision it could suggest the rebirth of cinema." – The Village Voice (2001, 172 min, digital video). Tickets: $8.00, (Small theatre, advance purchase recommended.) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St, San Francisco. www.YBCA.org, 415-978-ARTS.

“ Taku Wakan, Something Sacred” Lakota language instruction with Willie Underbaggage, IFH, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. Sunday, April 11, 3-5 pm, donations requested.

Monday, April 12, 6:30-8:30 pm, Lakotia Woglaka, Learn conversational Lakota with fluent, first language native speaker William Underbaggage. IFH, 523 International Blvd. Oakland, CA. Casual healthy potluck. byod. (bring your own dishes)., $10 donation requested. Open course scheduled through May 24, 2010. fmi: janeenantoine@mac.com Willichili@hotmail.com

A special save the Date! Wednesday, April 21, 8 pm with Jeremy Goodfeather Band at the Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk Street, San Francisco.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/OPPORTUNITIES

The Endangered Language Fund funds language maintenance and linguistic field work. The language must be in danger of disappearing within a generation or two. Work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics. Grants average $2,000. Deadline April 20 with decisions end of May. Link to Complete RFP.

Call for artists. Native American Art Exhibition focusing on Artists creating contemporary artwork in the Four Corners region/states. FMI: Joe Cornett, Program Coordinator, Flagstaff Cultural Partners, jcornett@culturalpartners.org, 928.779.2300 x103.

Call for artists. Contemporary Indian Artists of the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada region for 2012. FMI: Ann M. Wolfe, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections , Nevada Museum of Art, ann.wolfe@nevadaart.org, 775.329.3333x255.

Call for musicians. Anthem Entertainment is a United States based marketing and event production agency that specializes in live entertainment and music events. After executing global projects in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Anthem is now looking for musical acts to compete for a mini-world tour set for 2010. This will include a minimum of three shows abroad in South Africa, all expenses paid (accommodations, airfare) and a daily per diem in foreign currency. The festival will take place in 50 markets throughout North America. There is NO entry fee for this competition and the festival will provide great exposure for participating acts. Events will be held in the San Francisco Memphis market and Anthem is looking for interested bands and/or artists to participate. Musicians of all genres are eligible to compete and more information on the festival will be provided to those who reply. Anthem and the IMF are also proud to announce an official partnership with a prominent South African children's charity - CHOSA (Giving Hope to the Children of South Africa)- and proceeds from the IMF will be benefiting this organization. If interested in this opportunity, please submit the name of your act, contact name & phone number, and a place where we can listen to your music. Anthem Entertainment www.anthemIMF.com. http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=103

Call for Entries. Innovations in contemporary Crafts - a juried exhibition of contemporary Crafts in the SF Bay Area. Deadline: May 15, 2010 Apply online at http://bayvan.org/rac. Open to artists residing in the SF Bay Area who work in any craft media: ceramics, wood, glass, metal, fiber, enamel, paper and jewelry. Each artist may submit up to ten (10) original works complete within the last two (2) years. Works must be available during the entire exhibition period. Entry fee: $25 for RAC members; $35 for non-members. The show will be held at the Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett, Richmond, CA 94804, June 29 – August 21, 2010. Three prizes totaling $1,000 will be awarded. Email: exhibitions@therac.org Phone: 510-620-1252.

The National Museum of the American Indian Young Native Writer’s Essay Contest (in partnership with the Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation) to "Describe a crucial issue confronting your tribal community today. Explain how you hope to help your tribal community respond to this challenge and improve its future." Five selected essayists, and the teachers that inspired their participation, win an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C. in July 2010 and a $2,500 scholarship. Deadline is May 10, 2010. FMI : http://www.nativewriters.hklaw.com/index.asp.

The 2011 Visions from the New California Awards. Six highly talented, yet under-recognized outstanding California visual artists from geographically and ethnically diverse communities will be selected to receive a one-month residency, $4,000 award, inclusion in art publication and 2012 exhibition. Coordinated by the Alliance of Artists Communities, funded by The James Irvine Foundation. App deadline May 15, 2010. FMI: http://www.visionsfromthenewcalifornia.org, Adam Short, (401) 351-4320, ashort@artistcommunities.org.

ONGOING

TV: San Jose, Channel 15, Native Voice TV, Sun 6 - 6:30 pm. Host Cihuapili. RoseAmador@aol.com

Radio:
San Francisco: "Webworks: Voices of the Native Nation" 3rd/4th Wed, 6-8 pm, KPOO 89.5 FM, with Mary Jean Robertson, nativenations@kpoo.com.
Berkeley: Bay Native Circle, Wed 2 -3 pm. kpfa.org 94.1. gregg@radiocamp.com, janeenantoine@mac.com.
Davis: “On Native Ground - Where Art Speaks!” Thurs 8:30-9:30 am with Jack Koehler and Patrice Pena, and “Sovereignty Sound” with DJ Ya-nah. Sun 3-6 am, FMI: 916.380-2818, www.kdvs.org.

Calendars:
Statewide events: News from Native California’s online and quarterly printed calendars. Submit events to nnc@heydaybooks.com. 510.549-3564, fax 510.549-1889 or News from Native California, P.O. Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709. www.heydaybooks.com.

East Bay (To Tuolumne)
Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. 510.836-1955. www.ifhurbanrez.org. Free Classes: Tues: Beading, Drum, and Aerobics. Thurs: Medicine Warriors All Nations Dance, Fri: Talking Circles, Sat: Gardening, and Parenting. Free/Donation: Mon, 6:30-8:30: Lakhotia Woglaka: Speak Lakota, 2nd/4th Sun: “Taku Wakan: Something Sacred”. Library open some Tues & Thurs. All welcome.

Gathering Tribes, 1412 Solano Ave., Albany. 510.528-9038, www.gatheringtribes.com.
Weekend presentations by Native artists from around the country.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 103 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley. 510.643-7649 or hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu. Wed - Sat 10 am - 4:30 pm, Sun. 12 - 4 pm. Free; $5 docent tours, $2 children under 18.

North Bay (To Sacramento)
California Indian Museum, 1020 O Street, Sacramento, www.parks.ca.gov. “American Masterpieces: Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry,” Through early 2010, closed Mon, Admission charge.

California Indian Museum & Cultural Center, 5250 Aero Drive, Santa Rosa, 707.579-3004, cimandcc@aol.com, www.cimcc.org. “Ishi: A California Indian Story of Dignity, Hope, Courage and Survival.”


Jesse Peter Native American Art Museum, Santa Rosa Jr. College, Bussman Hall, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.527-4479. Emphasis California cultures, artists change monthly. Mon-Fri 12-4.


Maidu Museum and Historic Site, 1960 Johnson Ranch Dr., Roseville. 916.774-5934, www.roseville.ca.us/indianmuseum. Til May 13, “Sing Me Your Story-Dance Me Home”. California Indian stories, songs and dances in poetry, baskets, photographs and more than 40 artworks by 27 contemporary Native California artists.

Marin Museum of the American Indian. 2200 Novato Blvd., Novato, 415.897-4064. “Sharing Traditions,” last Sat of month, 1 -4 pm. Tues - Sun 12 -4 pm. Free.

Mendocino County Museum. 400 E. Commercial St., Willits, 707.459-2739. Wed - Sun: 10 am - 4:30 pm. Pomo baskets and basket weavers. Free.

Northern California Flute Circle. 530.432-2716. www.naflute.com/index.html. Native American Flute concerts and workshops.

Pacific Western Traders, 305 Wool St., Folsom. 916.985-3851 Wed - Sun, 10 am - 5 pm. Native American arts, books, recordings, videos, Pendleton blankets.

Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council. Mugg’s Coffee Shop, Ferry Building, 495 Mare Island Way, Vallejo. 707.552-2562 or 707.554-6114. Call to confirm Wed 7 pm meetings.

West Bay (San Francisco Peninsula)
Mission Dolores. 3321 16th Street, San Francisco, CA. 415.621-8203. Donations. Curator Andrew A. Galvan, chochenyo@aol.com is Ohlone. Mission Dolores is the oldest intact building in the City of San Francisco and the only intact Mission Chapel in the chain of 21 established under the direction of Father Serra. It is the final resting place of some 5,000 Ohlone, Miwok, and other First Californians who built Mission Dolores. The garden contains an Ohlone Indian ethno-botanic garden and examples of Native American plants and artifacts.

Kaululehua Hawaiian Cultural Center, 423 Baden Ave, South San Francisco. info@apop.net. Hula for Kupunas (elders), Mon 9 - 10 am, Geared to seniors, open to all 18 and over. $5 class. New: Lomilomi Hawaiian Massage, portion of fee benefits center.

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford. 650-723-4177, www.museum.stanford.edu. “Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas,” diverse Native American peoples and times, Northwest Coast art, and collections of California, Southwest, and Mesoamerica. Free. Wed – Sun.

South Bay (To Santa Cruz)
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 520 S. First St., San Jose. 408.971-0323, www.sjquiltmuseum.org. “Navajo Weaving in the Present Tense: The Art of Lucy and Ellen Begay " Feb 16 - May 2. Museum/store hours Tues - Sun, 10 - 5. Admission $8; $6.50 students/seniors; free members/children. Free first Fridays.


Mexica New Year 2010 - this Sat and Sun

SNAG will be there on sat March 13th to table!

Calpulli Tonalehqueh hosts the largest Azteca Mexica New Year Ceremony & Celebration in the nation. Everyone is invited to attend on the weekend of March 13-14, 2010 in San Jose, CA @ the National Hispanic University. Their goal is to make it educational, sustainable and free of waste.

Food, Arts & Crafts Vendors, Community Resources, & Childrens Activities

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010

The National Hispanic University
14271 Story Road – San Jose, CA

Phone:
4085101377
Email:
mitlalpilli@hotmail.com

The event is FREE to the community.

Sat/Sab Mar. 13
6am-Sunrise Ceremony
10am-Ohlone Nation
10:30 am-Pomo Nation
11am-Zuni Nation
11:30-4pm- Mexica Nation
12pm-Intoca Tocaitl(Naming Ceremony)

Sun/Dom Mar. 14
10am-Opening
11am-Pow Wow Dancers
12pm Maestro Ocelocoatl
12:30pm-Xavier Quijas Yxayotl
1pm-Guest Speaker
1:30pm-Guest Speaker
1:30pm-Danza de Oaxaca
2pm-Maestro Kuauhkoatl



The 21st Annual Service Learning Conference

Ras K'dee will be presenting to adult and youth participants about his work with SNAG
on March 26th from 3:30-5:3opm.

March 24-27, 2010
San Jose, Calif.

Join us for the 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference — Inspire. Imagine. Innovate! Held March 24-27, 2010 in San Jose, Calif., this event celebrates service-learning as a force that spans cultural and national boundaries, builds communities, and strengthens young people.

The conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, thought leader series, service-learning projects, and networking, the conference engages participants in local, national, and global issues that service-learning addresses. Come explore more than 100 exhibits, and nearly 150 hands-on workshops and service-learning projects.

The 2010 conference will feature speeches by Sir Ken Robinson, an internationally recognized leader in creativity, innovation and human resources; Carol Bellamy, President and CEO of World Learning and former executive director of UNICEF; and Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Judy Bernstein, authors of They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan.

To learn more about the conference, visit the official 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference website.


33rd Annual California Conference on American Indian Education

SNAG will be tabling on March 26 and 27th. SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The 33rd Annual California Conference on American Indian Education for 2010 is being held March 25 – 27 in Santa Clara. The theme is “Saving Our Language-Saving Our Culture.” The host hotel is the Santa Clara Marriott, 2700 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, Calif.. Make reservations as early as possible by calling (408) 988-1500, and reference CCAIE. For more information contact co-chairs: Rachel McBride at (530) 895-4212, ext. 110 or rachel.4winds@sbcglobal.net; Irma Amaro at iamaro2007@hotmail.com; and Rene Samayoa at (408) 926-5247 or sjaiec@sbcglobal.net. Visit the Web site at www.cieda.org.


Walks for a Nuclear Free Future

SNAG director Ras K'dee will be speaking with March organizers and participants on Bay Native Circle 2pm-3pm - Wed, March 17th on KPFA 94.1 in the Bay Area or listen in online at KPFA.

Starting on May 3rd the United Nations will be reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. To bring the issue to the attention of the American People there are three walks that plan to arrive in NYC on May 1 and are having a rally on the 2nd. One of the walks started in Oakridge, TN weeks ago. There is one coming down from Vermont and one from Western NY. Here is the info from the 700 mile WNY walk. The map and stops along the way are on their website. People are encouraged to walk part of the way if you can't make the whole trip.

Northern Route Initiated by Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order

Western New York to the United Nations in New York City (March 7 – May 2, 2010, a total of 700 miles)
Each Step Will Be A Prayer Toward A Nuclear-Free Future
▪ ABOLITION OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS ▪ AN END TO NUCLEAR POWER ▪ We wish to call attention to the 2010 NPT Review Conference at UN in May 2010. With increased support of public opinion, our new US President will be encouraged to abolish the use of nuclear weapons.

►Western New York to NYC: West Valley Nuclear Waste Site, Six Nations Native American territories, Syracuse (National Guard base, soon to be a home to MQ-9, the first hunter-killer unmanned aerial vehicles), Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. (See reverse side for the complete itinerary and a list of supporting organizations.)

■ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
This treaty’s objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. A total of 190 parties have joined the Treaty, including the five nuclear-weapon States (US, UK, Russia, France, China). The Treaty has been reviewed at the UN every five years and the next review conference is scheduled to begin May 3, 2010.

■ Think Outside the Bomb
The nuclear fuel cycle is an inherently dangerous process that is destructive to the health, environment and economies of all peoples irrespective of political boundaries. Many of toxic and radioactive wastes, both from nuclear weapons and energy production, will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years, if not for millions of years. Despite no place or technology to isolate the waste as long as it is radioactively hazardous, the nuclear industry creates more and more.

■ Suffering of Indigenous People
The Walk will visit Six Nations of Native American territories in New York State. Historically and currently, the native communities—from uranium miners to tribal communities targeted with nuclear waste dumps—bear a disproportionate burden of risk from the nuclear fuel cycle.

■ West Valley
West Valley is a complex radioactive waste site located 30 miles south of Buffalo. The site has high-level, so-called “low- level,” transuranic and mixed (radioactive and hazardous) wastes buried, stored and leaking. Geologically the site is in a bedrock valley that is expected to erode into the Great Lakes in centuries to come, but the nuclear waste buried at the site will remain dangerously radioactive much longer than the projected erosion rate.

Please join us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety. You can support us by organizing a community potluck, a sharing circle, a visit to your mayor, a place for our walkers to sleep, or a coverage by the local media. Also please keep this walk in your thought and prayer.

Nipponzan Myohoji
PEACE WALK ROUTE (Northern Route) available here.
No Drugs, No Alcohol, No Weapons.
We will typically walk 12-18 miles per day.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jun Yasuda Nipponzan Myohoji Grafton Peace Pagoda Phone: 518-658-9301
Jules Orkin Phone: 201-566-8403 Email: julesorkin@yahoo.com
This is a part of collaborated interfaith peace walks toward NPT conference in NYC. There are two other routes: from Oak Ridge, TN (Southern Route) and from Burlington, VT (Eastern Route).
Walk for a Nuclear-Free Future 2010 Northern Route (3/7/10-5/2/10)

Supported by:
Catholic Workers; Center for Health, Environment & Justice; Citizens Campaign for the Environment; Citizens' Environmental Coalition; CODEPINK; Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR); FootPrints for Peace; Global Network Against Weapon and Nuclear Power in Space; Grandmothers for Peace; Indigenous Women’s Initiatives; Mayors for Peace; New York Regional AFSC; Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS); Pax Christi; Peace Action; Sierra Club; Syracuse Peace Counsel; Veterans for Peace; Western New York Peace Center.












See all the information on the flyer below.










































































































Red Noize, Pine Ridge, 2005















Chach Sha Bonkeh, 2004















Arizona Youth Summit, 2004


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