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DESCRIPTION:The Ohlone Profiles Project is pleased to announce the upcoming Ohlone Big 
 Time Gathering in San Francisco. The Big Time, which is a traditional 
 California Indian festival, will include a dance arena, vendor booths, 
 camping, and talking circles, followed by a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz 
 Island.\n\nThe Ohlone Big Time will be held on October 12 and 13, 2013 at 
 Crissy Field in San Francisco, in the area surrounding the Crissy Field 
 Center, from 12-6pm Saturday and 12-5pm Sunday.\n\nThis is an opportunity 
 for Ohlone people, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco 
 Bay Area, to share their culture with the public in San Francisco. The Big 
 Time will showcase over a hundred dancers and singers from several 
 different Ohlone and native California tribes, and feature demonstrations 
 of traditional skills such as basket weaving. These events are free and 
 open to the public.\n\nThe event dates correspond with Indigenous 
 People’s Weekend and Fleet Week. The Parks Conservancy predicts that 
 Crissy Field will see more than 10,000 visitors that weekend. With this 
 event, Ohlone Profiles Project hopes to establish an annual Ohlone presence 
 in San Francisco. Ann Marie Sayers, Chair of Indian Canyon Nation, 
 explains, "If we do not appear in San Francisco, we will remain 
 invisible."\n\nOn October 14th, the following Monday morning, the Ohlone 
 people are collaborating with the International Indian Treaty Council to 
 host the Indigenous People's Day Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz 
 Island.\n\nEvent organizers are currently accepting applications for arts 
 and crafts booths, food vendors, and nonprofit groups.\n\nThe Big Time 
 Gathering will be co-hosted by a council of Ohlone grandmothers and the 
 Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe of Ohlone. The Ohlone Profiles Project in San 
 Francisco is producing the event.\n\n"The history books say we no longer 
 exist. But now that you have seen us dancing, you can tell them it isn't 
 true," says Chief Tony Cerda of the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe of 
 Ohlone.\n\nThe goal of the Ohlone Profiles Project is to document the 
 ongoing lives of Ohlone leaders and organizations. Most people in San 
 Francisco believe the Ohlone no longer exist. Very few realize that there 
 are nine Ohlone organizations applying for tribal recognition, several with 
 more than 500 members. The Ohlone Profiles Project exists to give as many 
 Ohlone groups as possible visibility and support.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/13/18743194.php
SUMMARY:Ohlone Big Time cultural event in San Francisco
LOCATION:Crissy Field, area surrounding Crissy Field Center
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/13/18743194.php
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