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DESCRIPTION:Explore the history of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and their journey to 
 restore indigenous stewardship to their ancestral lands at the Museum’s 
 November 8 Naturalist Night lecture.\n\nAbout the lecture:\nCalifornia 
 Indians have managed and sustained cultural ecosystems with traditional 
 resource and environmental management practices for centuries. Today, after 
 a period of colonial dispossession, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band is 
 fulfilling their obligation to their Creator by relearning traditional 
 ecological knowledge (TEK) and returning to their traditional territory, 
 which includes Santa Cruz and surrounding areas, to steward and care for 
 Mother Earth. Amah Mutsun Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez will discuss the 
 history of the tribe and how the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) was 
 developed as a means to assist the tribe in their efforts to gain access to 
 lands within their tribal territory. Sara French, a research associate with 
 AMLT, will give examples of how the AMLT is restoring indigenous 
 stewardship to Amah Mutsun ancestral lands using research and education, 
 conservation and restoration, and innovative partnerships in the Santa Cruz 
 mountains and beyond.\n\nThe 2018 Amah Mutsun: Then and Now program series 
 is supported by California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National 
 Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.\n\nAbout the 
 speakers:\n(1) Valentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal 
 Band and the President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust Board of Directors. 
 Chairman Lopez works tirelessly to honor his ancestors and make sure they 
 are never erased from history or forgotten. He has spoken on numerous 
 occasions on the floor of the United Nations to bring international 
 attention to the cultural and ecological restoration initiatives of his 
 tribe. He serves as a Native American Advisor to the University of 
 California, to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Phoebe 
 Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Chairman Lopez is a Mutsun singer and dancer 
 and student of the Mutsun language.\n\n(2) Sara French is the Director of 
 Programs and Development for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. She holds dual 
 degrees from UC Santa Cruz in Environmental Studies and Anthropology, and a 
 master’s degree from UC Berkeley in Range Management. She has worked with 
 the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band since 2009 on numerous ethnobotanical, 
 ecological restoration, and resource management projects. In recent years 
 she has focused her efforts on fundraising, grant writing, and developing 
 resource stewardship programs for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust. She is a 
 native plant enthusiast and is deeply committed to restoring indigenous 
 stewardship and culturally significant native plants to Amah Mutsun 
 traditional territory.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/04/18818766.php
SUMMARY:Naturalist Night: Restoring Indigenous Stewardship
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History\n1305 E Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/04/18818766.php
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