Online Registration is Closed!
The conference is free and open to the public. There will be a small fee ($20) for the Friday night closing reception.
Conference program now available!
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"We Are Still Here: Fix the Earth People"
by Lyn Risling (Karuk, Yurok, Hupa) |
Conference Committee
Cutcha Risling Baldy, Chair Paula "Pimm" Allen Kayla Begay Adrienne Colegrove-Raymond Blair Kruezer Lonyx Landry Geneva Shaw Thank you to our sponsors
HSU: Native American Studies ITEPP HSU: Social Work Department Environmental Science & Management (HSU) Art Department (HSU) Politics (HSU) Sociology (HSU) HSU Dean of CAHSS HSU Diversity, Equity & Inclusion CSU Office of the Chancellor President Lisa Rossbacher Northern CA Tribal Chairman's Assoc. Blue Lake Rancheria Native Women's Collective Native Culture's Fund Far Western Anthropological Research Group American Indian Studies (SDSU) Lyn Risling (Artwork) |
The WiyotWe are pleased to be able to offer this conference in the traditional homelands of the Wiyot people. Wiyot ancestral territory extended from Little River near Trinidad to Bear River Ridge near Scotia, and east to Berry Summit and Chalk Mountain. It was the discovery of gold in 1849 that resulted in the attempted destruction of Wiyot people and culture. This a series of massacres the most infamous on February 26, 1860 at Tuluwat on Indian Island in Humboldt Bay. The Wiyot people had gathered at this traditional site for the annual World Renewal Ceremony, which lasted seven to ten days. Estimates of the dead ranged from 80 to 250 in that night's series of orchestrated massacres. The Wiyot people did not disappear. Wiyot people are actively recovering the old ways, including language, ceremony, and lifeways. Pieces of long forgotten native history are emerging, both from professional and archaelogical investigation and from family memories and records. Much has been lost or destroyed, however there is also much that is "coming home."
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California Indian Conference
c/o Native American Studies 1 Harpst Street Arcata, CA 95521 |