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Protecting Sacred Places: Panels on Northern California Indigenous Resistance

Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Time:
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd. Oakland, CA

Protecting Sacred Places:
A unique opportunity to learn about current struggles of Native peoples to protect sacred land in Northern California and ways that you can lend support.

Two separate events in Oakland -- see below.

FEATURED PRESENTERS

Caleen Sisk (Winnemem Wintu)
Speaking about current Winnemem struggles

Jim Brown III (Elem Pomo)
Speaking about Rattlesnake Island

Corrina Gould (Chochenyo/Karkin Ohlone)
Speaking about Brushy Peak

Wounded Knee DeOcampo (Tuolumne Miwok)
Speaking about Sogorea Te/ Glen Cove

Only at Friday June 1st event:
Morning Star Gali (Achumawi Pit River)
Speaking about Medicine Lake

TWO DATES/LOCATIONS IN OAKLAND:

Thursday, May 31st
5:30pm @ INTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
523 International Boulevard, Oakland, CA

Friday, June 1st
7:00pm @ THE HOLD-OUT
2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA

Admission $5-$20 * No one turned away for lack of funds

A program of several short videos will precede the panel discussions, including:

"A River in their Veins", on the Winnemem Wintu's Coming of Age ceremony in 2010, a tradition that could be gone forever if the sacred sites necessary for the ceremony are permanently submerged by a raise of the Shasta Dam.
Other videos TBA

For further event information contact: protectsacredland [at] yahoo.com


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