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DESCRIPTION:Dancing with Sea, Land, and Fire: Monterey Bay Native Land Management & 
 Food Security\n\nSaturday January 21, 2023 from 9 AM - 12:30 PM\n\nChoice 
 of in-person tickets or Zoom, go here: 
 https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lpmYv-H0RRWl21-yZrZ3Mw\n\nWe are 
 excited to share with you a hybrid in-person being held at the Seymour 
 Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz, and also online via Zoom. \n\nThis 
 conference summarizes the last 10 years’ eco-archaeological research in 
 collaboration with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band (AMTB), the researchers 
 including members of the AMTB and Amah Mutsun Land Trust. \n\nThe focus 
 will be on food plants and animals, and the evidence for management of the 
 land \nand sea shore by Native people\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n1.     Alec Apodaca 
 is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley and received his B.A. at UC Santa Cruz 
 and M.A. at UC Berkeley. He conducted an award-winning senior thesis under 
 Dr. Tsim Schneider (UC Santa Cruz) on the archaeology of indigenous 
 shellfishing practices in Tomales Bay. Before joining the graduate program 
 at UC Berkeley, he worked on the central coast as an Environmental Planner 
 for the California Department of Transportation and has over five years of 
 experience in Cultural Resource Management. His dissertation research 
 focused on shellfish use by central coastal Native ancestors. His research 
 interests center on historical fire ecology, coastal landscape management, 
 foodways, and ecological restoration.\n\n2.     Rob Q. Cuthrell has worked 
 with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for over a decade to conduct research on 
 the long-term history of indigenous land and resource stewardship. Rob's 
 research integrates archaeology and historical ecology to explore how 
 Native people used prescribed burning to maintain open and productive 
 landscapes on the Central California Coast. Rob received his PhD in 
 Anthropology from UC Berkeley.\n\n3.     Rick Flores is a Horticulturist 
 and Steward of the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program (AMRP) at the UC Santa 
 Cruz Arboretum. He has worked at the Arboretum for over 20 years and holds 
 both a B.A. and M.A. in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. His 
 specialization is California native plants, but he currently works in other 
 gardens as well, helping to maintain displays of extraordinary plants. As 
 Steward of the AMRP, Rick fosters the relationship between the Amah Mutsun 
 Tribal Band and the Arboretum, oversees educational programming, and helps 
 develop displays of culturally important native plants. Rick also assists 
 with fundraising and grant writing. Rick enjoys hiking, backpacking, 
 fishing, mountain biking, bird watching, and just generally being outdoors, 
 in addition to spending time with family and friends.\n\n4.     Diane 
 Gifford-Gonzalez is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and 
 former Curator of the Monterey Bay Archaeology Archives at the University 
 of California, Santa Cruz. Her specialization is zooarchaeology, and she 
 has done archaeological fieldwork and analyzed fauna in Kenya, Tanzania, 
 and coastal California. Her recent research has focused on culinary 
 processing as the link between food-getting activities and nutrition, 
 gender and food, and how archaeological fauna can aid in studying 
 indigenous landscape management. She has worked as a zooarchaeologist with 
 the project led by Dr. Kent Lightfoot and the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band since 
 2006.\n\n5.     Mike Grone is the Santa Cruz District State Archaeologist 
 for California Department of State Parks. His UC Berkeley research focused 
 on indigenous shoreline stewardship practices on the Santa Cruz coast, in 
 collaboration with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. This research program takes 
 a long-term view regarding indigenous use and management of shellfish and 
 seaweed through community-engaged archaeology, historical ecology, 
 zooarchaeology, ethnography, and Native oral traditions. His 
 interdisciplinary, community-based approach aims to enhance our 
 understanding of the people and processes that have interacted with and 
 shaped our beloved coastlines for thousands of years.\n\n6.     Mark D. 
 Hylkema is former Santa Cruz District Archaeologist for California State 
 Parks. His long and ongoing career has focussed on the central coast, 
 especially southern San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties and adjacent regions 
 of the southern San Francisco Bay, and is remarkable for its early and 
 significant outreach to tribes. He has also taught a range of courses in 
 community colleges in the South Bay. His fieldwork, publications, and 
 outreach as a Parks representative laid the groundwork for much of the work 
 presented here today.\n\n7.     Kent Lightfoot is Professor and Class of 
 1960 Chair in Undergraduate Education in the Anthropology Department and 
 Curator of North American Archaeology in the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of 
 Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the 
 Berkeley faculty in 1987. He received his BA from Stanford University and 
 his PhD from Arizona State University. He has done archaeological work in 
 New England, the American Southwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific Coast 
 of North America. His recent investigations have focused on the archaeology 
 of colonialism, the shell mounds of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and 
 indigenous landscape management practices along the central coast of 
 California. His many publications include California Indians and their 
 Environments: An Introduction (with Otis Parrish) and Indians, 
 Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the 
 California Frontiers\n\n8.     Valentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah 
 Mutsun Tribal Band, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as 
 Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the indigenous descendants 
 forcibly taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. He is a Native 
 American Adviser to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the 
 Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Chairman Lopez is also the President 
 of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust, which was established in 2012. The Amah 
 Mutsun are very active in land conservation and protection efforts within 
 their traditional tribal territory.\n\n9.     Tsim D. Schneider is a 
 citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and an Associate 
 Professor. Dr. Schneider's current archaeological and historical research 
 examines Indigenous responses to colonialism in the San Francisco Bay 
 region of California and has been published by American Indian Quarterly, 
 American Anthropologist, and American Antiquity. His 2021 book The 
 Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous 
 Hinterlands in Colonial California, sets a benchmark for restorative 
 indigenous archaeology of colonial Native histories.\n\n10.  Alexii Sigona 
 is a member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and is currently a PhD student 
 in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC 
 Berkeley. Alexii is particularly interested in how Indigenous Peoples’ 
 engagement in land stewardship practices can be integral for cultural 
 revitalization. Furthermore, he believes that by fulfilling land 
 stewardship obligations, Indigenous communities can work to heal themselves 
 as well as our environment. In the summer, Alexii serves as a Native Land 
 Steward for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/17/18853845.php
SUMMARY:Dancing with Sea, Land, & Fire: Monterey Bay Native Land Management and Food Security
LOCATION:Seymour Marine Discovery Center\n100 McAllister Way\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060 
 \n\nOr join online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/17/18853845.php
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