Resource Library Bundle

Native California

Teachings, stories, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, panels, discussions, and more

Featured Teacher: Sage LaPena

Nourishing the Spirit in Native California
on The Native Seed Pod

Audio: 49 min
Coast Miwok territory - Novato, California, Turtle Island

Dive deep into agroecology and the Native plant wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge keeper and medical herbalist Sage LaPena (Nomtipom Wintu).

Nourishing the Spirit in Native California - Spring Planting full workshop video

Video: 1 hr, 15 min
Coast Miwok territory - Novato, California, Turtle Island
April 22, 2018

Teachings by: Sage LaPena, Rose Imai and Ben Shleffar

Full-length workshop - Spring Planting event of The Cultural Conservancy, hosted by the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden at the College of Marin

Featured Community: Ohlone

#CafeOhlone: Language, Food, Community

Audio: 52 min
Ohlone territory - Lisjan, Berkeley, California, Turtle Island

Sit down with California Native chefs and educators Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone) and Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone) and hear about their journey revitalizing Ohlone languages and foods in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area community and across the globe. Tucked into the quiet corner of a busy Berkeley bookstore we joined Vince and Louis at the site of their “permanent pop-up” restaurant, Café Ohlone.

Produced by The Cultural Conservancy

mak-'amham Ohlone Harvest Feast

Video: 10 min
Coast Miwok territory - Novato, California, Turtle Island

Featuring Ohlone chefs Vincent Medina (Chochenyo Ohlone) and Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone).

Produced by: The Cultural Conservancy
Hosted by the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden at the College of Marin Indian Valley Campus in Novato California

Original Stakeholders of the Presidio: The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe (1996)

Article: 2 pages

Muwekma Ohlone territory - San Francisco, California, Turtle Island

Author: Melissa K. Nelson

The 50th from the Perspective of this Place:
A Workshop on Land Acknowledgment

Video: 39 min
Ohlone Territory, San Francisco, California, Turtle Island
Red Tawks Series
October 9, 2019

Featuring:

Corrina Gould (Confederated Villages of Lisjan)
Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Coastanoan Ohlone/Chumash)
Gregg Castro (t'rowt'raahl Salinan/rumsien Ohlone)
La Nada War Jack (Bannock Nation)
Joanne Barker (Lenape), Professor and Chair of American Indian Studies

Produced by:

American Indian Studies College of Ethnic Studies San Francisco State University
The Cultural Conservancy

Featured Partnership: California Consortium of Urban Indian Health

Youth Gathering of Native Americans

Video: 10 min
Chumash territory - Santa Barbara, California, Turtle Island

Coordinated by American Indian Health & Services in the Chumash community

Co-produced with the California Consortium of Urban Indian Health

Additional Native California Resources

Rekindling Native California Ecologies - Part 1

Audio: 49 min
Coast Miwok territory - Novato, California, Turtle Island

Listen in as Melissa Nelson catches up with knowledge-keeper Edward Redbird Willie (Pomo, Wintu, Paiute, Wailaki) on the beautiful back acres where we farm with our partner, Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden in Novato, California. Redbird walks us gently through the changes to this land, the importance of certain plants and animals to the first peoples of this area, and the realities, responsibilities, and roles immigrants to California must take on to be in good relation with Native California.