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DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Indian Resource Center, students, staff, faculty, 
 and community members for our annual powwow during Alumni Weekend.\n\nMC: 
 Earl Neconie\nHost MC: Val Lopez\nArena director: Val Shadow Hawk\nHost 
 northern drum: Drum & Feather\nHost southern drum: Turtle Nation\nHost 
 dancers: Amah Mutson Dancers\nSpecial guests: Elem Pomo Dancers\n\nAll 
 drums and dancers welcome!\n\n\nAbout the powwow\n\nPowwows are often 
 cultural touchstones for American Indian peoples living far away from home, 
 family, and community. The modern powwow was brought by American Indians to 
 cities such as Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis & St. 
 Paul, Tulsa, Austin, and many others as a way to connect to one another 
 culturally, socially, and spiritually.\n\nWith a population of just 1 
 percent of the total population of the United States, American Indians are 
 often culturally isolated and experience ongoing colonial trauma as they 
 move away from home, family, and community; powwows are a chance to be 
 around other American Indians, share cultures, songs, dances, and regalia 
 in someplace very far away from what they have known.\n\nUniversity powwows 
 also serve as an organizing principle for American Indian student 
 organizations: to connect with family and friends back home, as well as 
 make new connections with other American Indian people. Cultural isolation 
 is often cited as a reason American Indian students drop out of school and 
 return home. Providing a cultural touchstone such as a powwow brings 
 students together and provides a sense of home, of family and community, 
 and a chance to be around other American Indian students to share and 
 connect with in ways that not many non American Indian people understand. 
 The planning is extensive and requires academic, social, planning, and 
 budgetary skills—all capabilities needed by students to prepare for a 
 rigorous job market that is constantly changing.\n \n\nAbout Sophia 
 Garcia-Robles\n\nSophia touched many lives during her 27-year career at UC 
 Santa Cruz. She served as financial aid adviser, mentor, and advocate for 
 many UCSC students. Prior to joining the Financial Aid and Scholarship 
 Office staff, she was employed at Stevenson College. She also volunteered 
 for well over 10 years as a residential preceptor at Merrill College and 
 College Eight. A natural leader, Sophía was charismatic, powerful, 
 genuine, and enormously generous. She dedicated her life to the education 
 and well-being of others and to fighting hunger and poverty. At UC Santa 
 Cruz, Sophía was responsible for training staff in the Financial Aid and 
 Scholarship Office as well as for serving as an adviser for students. She 
 was involved in the Chicano/Latino and American Indian communities, she 
 served as a tireless advocate for AB 540 students, and she was a generous 
 contributor to the UC Santa Cruz Food Pantry and to the Educational 
 Opportunity Program Lending Library.\n\nThe American Indian Resource Center 
 honors Sophia's life and her commitment to higher education and social 
 justice by naming this annual event for her, an event that seeks to do what 
 she did in her life: make a difference for people in need.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/17/18735374.php
SUMMARY:2nd Annual UCSC Sophia Garcia Robles Drum Feast
LOCATION:Oakes Lower Lawn, University of California Santa 
 Cruz\n\nhttp://maps.ucsc.edu/content/443/map_detail\nhttp://www1.ucsc.edu/about/vtour/oakes_field.asp
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/17/18735374.php
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