Soroptimist House, California State University Long Beach
Friday, November 2, 2012 – Symposium
9:00-10:00 a.m Registration (free, donations accepted)
10:00 Welcome
-- Cindi Alvitre (Tongva),
Ernest Siva
(Serrano/Cahuilla), CISA Board Chair
Louie Robles (Acjachemen) - Master of Ceremonies
10:15
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The Life Work and Collective Song of Sam Kaha`i Ka'ai
10:30 Sam
Ka’ai (Hawaiian), Opening Speaker
11:00 Water
Forum: Kealoha Blake (Hawaiian), moderator
Cindi Alvitre (Tongva), Darryl B. Wilson
(Iss/At’we),
Brian Tripp (Karuk), Ernest Siva
(Serrano/Cahuilla),
Angela Mooney D' Arcey (Acjachemen)
11:45 Speaker
- Mahina Rapa Tuki - The Welling Being of Our Peoples
12:15
Announcements
12:30-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15 Speaker
- China Leipakumakaniokalani Ching – Indigenous Peoples’
Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative
1:45 Panel: Canoe Cultures and the Conditions of
our Waterways and Our Relationship to the Rivers, Oceans and Living Creatures
of the Water- Marcus Lopez (Chumash), facilitator, Rico Miranda (Ohlone),
Elaine Grinnell (S'Klallam), Woody Morrison (Haida), Takirirangi Smith (Maori), Sam Kaai (Hawaiian)
2:30 Break
2:45
Brian Tripp (Karuk), The Salmon Story
3:30
Community Dialogue
4:00 Closing Song by Brian Tripp (Karuk)Saturday, November 3, 2012 - Storytelling Festival
12:30 pm Registration
1 pm Welcome
1:15 Darryl
Babe Wilson , Ph.D. (Iss/At’we)
1:45 Brian
Tripp (Karuk)
2:15 Elaine
Grinnell (S'Klallam)
2:45 Woody
Morrison (Haida)
3:15 – Break
3:30 Takirirangi Smith (Maori)
4:00 Mahina
Rapu Tuki (Rapanui)
4:30 Rico
Miranda (Ohlone), Closing Song
Biographies of Presenters
California
Darryl Babe Wilson (Iss/A’te) Ph.D. is
founder of CISA and a member of the Pit River tribes of Northeastern
California, he holds a doctorate in Comparative Ethnic Literature from the
University of Arizona. Dr. Wilson is a
scholar, writer, poet, storyteller, oral traditions expert, and teacher. He is a published author of a variety of
articles and books on California Indian culture and history and, in particular,
the history of his tribe’s connection with Hawaiians from long ago to today
through the oral traditions and more.
Ernest Siva (Serrano/Cahuilla) is the Chair for the CISA Board. He is a tradition
bearer, storyteller, ethnomusicologist in American Indian music hailing from
the Morongo Reservation in Banning, CA.
He is one of the founders of the Malki Museum at Morongo and the Dorothy
Ramon Learning Center has worked to preserve the culture and history of tribe
from southern California, such as Cahuilla Bird Songs and the Serrano language.
Mati Waya (Chumash) is a
ceremonial leader and Dolphin Dancer and a lifelong resident of Ventura
County. He founded the Wishtoyo
Foundation, a non-profit organization, in 1997.
Mr. Waiya addresses cultural
resource laws protecting sensitive archaeological sites as well as endangered
species and natural resources. He is involved with Chumash cultural
preservation and educational programs teaching the Chumash values and environ-mental
preservation.
Rico Miranda (Ohlone) is a teacher and researcher, singer and historian. He
is an activist in the preservation of Ohlone culture, songs, and stories.
Louie Robles, Jr (Acjachemen) is a storyteller and culture bearer from the
Acjachemen tribe in southern California, near San Juan Capistrano.
Brian Tripp (Karuk) is a renowned and multitalented artist, poet and traditional singer.
His studio is located in Eureka. As an honored Karuk traditionalist,
singer and dancer, Tripp has been instrumental in the preservation of his
people’s traditions. In addition to being a highly regarded contemporary
visual artist, Tripp serves as a cultural consultant for a number of
organizations. Tripp has exhibited and lectured in San Francisco and New York,
as well as having done residencies at the Kunst in Der Landshaft, Prigglitz, Austria,
Ecoe d’Art Aix en Provence, Provence, France, and the Open Air Modern Art
Museum in Pedvale, Lativa. His paintings are modern and hard-edged, yet
faithfully based on Karuk designs.
Angela
Mooney D' Arcey (Acjachemen), has been working
with Tribal Nations, Indigenous peoples, and grassroots organizations on
Indigenous environmental justice issues for over fourteen years. She
teaches Indigenous Cultural Resource
Protection Law in Theory and Practice as part of the UCLA Extension
and Tribal Learning and Community Educational Exchange Program, Native Nations
Law and Policy Center’s Working in Tribal
Communities program. She is also the Co-Director for the United
Coalition to Protect Panhe (UCPP), a grassroots alliance of Acjachemen people
dedicated to the protection of their sacred sites.
Georgiana Sanchez (Chumash), CISA Board member, is a storyteller, poet, writer
and professor of Native American Literature at California State University,
Long Beach. She works extensively in the
community as a cultural tradition bearer, language learner and activist.
Marcus Lopez (Chumash) is the Co-Chair of the Barbareno Chumash Council and
Tomol Captain for the Chumash People. He is an activist in the preservation of
sacred sites and a builder of the Tomol--the traditional plank canoe of the
Chumash people. Currently, he is the host and producer of American Indian
Airwaves on KPFK in Los Angeles and
Coyote Radio in Santa Barbara.
Paul Kealoha Blake (Hawaiian) CISA Board, is a videographer, musician and
cultural activist. He has worked within the Native Hawaiian community for more
than 20 years. His production, with the Pacific Island Cultural Association,
concerning the arrival of the voyaging canoe Hoku'lea in California has won
numerous awards both nationally and internationally. He has collaborated with
CISA since 1998 as an organizational and cultural advisor and as CISA’s primary
videographer/documentarian. He has participated as a founder of the League of
Indigenous Voices since 2007.
China Leipakumakaniokalani Ching is the Associate Program Officer for The Christensen Fund. She works on both the San Francisco Bay Area Program and in the Global Program focusing on supporting and increasing Indigenous participation and representation in global processes affecting Biocultural Diversity and in global policy work. China has provided capacity-building assistance to Indigenous communities across the United States and in Africa with a particular focus on using media technologies and storytelling to promote social and community change and to complement cultural documentation and preservation. China was a founding member of Third World Majority, a new media training and production resource center where she was the Director of Circle of Voices, a Native-specific training program. China holds a Master’s Degree in Oral History from Columbia University.
Washington – Elaine
Grinnell, (S’Klallam) is
a basketweaver and storyteller, a teacher, counselor of native American
students and historian for her Tribe, and conveyor of Native American culture
and language for forty years.
Alaska – K ‘awan
Sangaa--Woodrow Morrison (Haida) is a lawyer and writer who resides in
Vancouver, Canada. During the past 15 years he has worked as a Cultural/Story
Consultant on 17 Hollywood films. K ‘awan Sangaa ‘s travels have taken him to
Aotearoa, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji, to all but 2 of the 50 US States, 5 of
Canada’s 10 Provinces and to most of the countries of Northwestern Europe.
Hawaii – Sam Ka‘ai
(Hawaiian) is a visionary and storyteller of metaphoric expression, a
principal in the Hawaiian warrior movement, a teacher and a mentor to many
Native Hawaiians. Recognized for his vast knowledge of history and cultural
practices, Ka‘ai is a master woodcarver and artist of ceremonial ‘awa bowls and
an internationally renowned collection of weaponry, basketry, and fishhooks. He is an
Native oceanographer and fisherman who
has been instrumental in inspiring the preservation and presentation of
Hawaiian Maritime Culture, Hawaiian language and history.
Aotearoa (New Zealand) – Takirirangi
Smith, Ph. D, (Maori) the multifaceted
artist; an accomplished master carver, sculptor, painter, contemporary music
performer and composer. He had lead the carving of 7 carved meeting houses,
several entrances, gateways and facades in New Zealand. He is also an
accomplished carver of canoes and has particular interest in reviving the Maori
small sailing canoes.
Rapanui (Easter Island) - Mahina
Rapa Tuki is a cultural preservationist and activist, devoted to protecting
Rapanui from extinction. She is an
internationally renowned culture bearer, singer and storyteller.
