Sherman High School Pow Wow 2011

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Agave Harvest and Agave Roast Info... 2011

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11795 Fields Road
Banning, CA 92220-2921
(951) 849-7289

Class for Native Plant Uses!!!

Introduction to Southern California Native Plant Uses – with Lorene Sisquoc
Saturday, March 26, 2011 

9:00am – 5:00pm

9:00 am - Nature fieldtrip to Mockingbird Canyon,

Native Plant walk and identification, cordage making with stinging nettle, gather willow and elderberry sticks for projects.

11:30 am - Return to campus

12:00pm - Lunch Break

1:00pm - Soaps

1:30pm – Plant talk presentation
2:45pm – Break
3:00pm – Walnut Dice game project,

Location will be on the campus of Sherman Indian High School, 9010 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside, CA 92503. Building 5B in the Old Shop Building, Lorene Sisquoc, Native Traditions Classroom. To enter campus use the Jackson Street entrance, check in at guard and drive to classroom.

Cost of class is $75.00 per student including materials cost.

Please email Lorene Sisquoc at lsisquoc@gmail.com with your confirmation. Please include your name, address, phone and age (youth, adult or senior) 15 years minimum unless accompanied by paying adult.

Mocking Bird Canyon is Located about 10 miles from campus. We will meet at classroom to caravan at 9:00am. Bring your drinking water, knife, climate protection, a note pad and suitable footwear. (It is an easy hike)

Pow Wow in Pomona...

March 26 - 27, 2011
10th Annual Healing the Earth Pow Wow
Where: Cal Poly Pomona University
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, California 91768 
@ the Bronco Commons
All drums and dancers welcomed
Children's village, arts & crafts booths, food booths....Honoring all veterans
Grand entry at 11am Saturday and Sunday 
Free to the public $3 parking
909) 224-3046

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CSULB campus paper's Distasteful article about the Long Beach Pow Wow ....

When ever I go to an event that isn't of my own cultural background... I have an open mind when I knowingly step into the unknown. Clearly , the person who wrote this didn't either take, nor even knows what basic cultural Anthropology is.... Cultural sensitivity could have been definitely been practiced in this case.
My own personal "Restraint" to write something as Retaliatory is tested here in this case... so I'll just remind those who don't know that there was a long time when we as Native Americans could not gather. Nor could we practice our individual tribal traditions even if they were to heal.
An outsider can't possibly understand what goes on within a POW WOW by just walking around it with a camera-man and an Opinion.
Believe me... I KNOW through experience.
It takes YEARS to be accepted into the circle... it takes even more Endurance to exist within the Circle. and people within the Circle know it only as a WAY of Indian Life you have to live to understand.. First the DRUMS with the color guard opens up the Pow Wow...to the Gourd dancing the warriors open up with.... (whole families back their honored veterans...) to the various dances , Jingle dress, Northern and Southern cloth, Shaw,and Traditional Buckskin... Fancy,Northern and Southern Traditional,Chicken, Grass, Hoop dancers just to name a few... you Must know your PLACE at a Pow Wow.
Lets not even Forget the Most IMPORTANT part of the Pow Wow... the heart... is the DRUM. now that is a whole other world of its own.
Natives travel as FAR as the Grand Canyon...or as local as Fontana ...to sell their goods. Understand that what you are buying from a booth can never be what we use traditionally for cultural practices... But also understand that art and jewelery were made for the tourists even way back in the past to sustain the families income while they transitioned from the old native way of life to the world we live in now. It's no more different now... some whole families depend on that income yearly. I Know a few who are my good friends.

Saginaw Grant...(Pictured above) is one of the Top dedicated people who are at every POW WOW he can Physically be at every month... of every Year. That man is always there for the people within the Circle and out... it's a shame that they didn't talk with him but instead just USED his image . He would have shared a treasure of information that may have lead them to a better understanding of things at a POW WOW that they could comprehend.
There is So much that Goes into a POW WOW... and no two are the same.
For Now... that's what some of us have,and are appreciative to have it in places that are open to our Native People ... I just Honestly hope that this isn't what all students at Cal State University Long Beach interpreted when they attended the Pow Wow this last weekend, or what was written in the campus paper this week as their Final understanding of what a POW WOW is....

Agave Harvest and Agave Roast

MALKI MUSEUM'S

16^th ANNUAL

AGAVE HARVEST AND AGAVE ROAST

AGAVE WAS A STAPLE FOOD ITEM OF THE CAHUILLA AND OTHER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN TRIBES.  LEARN HOW THE CAHUILLA GATHERED AND COOKED THIS TASTY STAPLE.  JOIN US IN HARVESTING, THEN TASTING THIS NATIVE FOOD ALONG WITH A TRADITIONAL MEAL.

HARVEST:

10:00 am on Saturday, April 2, 2011

Cahuilla Tewanet Overlook on the Palms to Pines Highway (HWY 74)

$10 per person DONATION accepted

This sixteenth annual event is sponsored by the Malki Museum Association.  Reservations can be made by calling the museum for reservations (951-849-7289) or just meet at Cahuilla Tewanet at the time specified.  Honorary Malki Museum Member Daniel McCarthy will demonstrate and lead the harvesting of agave. 

ROAST:

Food Tasting

11:00 am on Saturday, April 9, 2011

Malki Museum / 11-795 Fields Road / Banning, CA (Morongo Indian Reservation)

  $10.00 adults; donations accepted for those under 16

The agave will be cooked, along with other delicious native foods, and served at Malki at noon on April 9^th.  Those who arrive early can see the agave removed from the roasting pit in which it was cooked.  All are welcome; reservations should be made by calling the museum to make sure enough food is prepared.

Are Native Americans ready for the changes ahead? YES!

One of our best qualities as Native Americans is "Adaption" I believe. As the Old ones have shared with me... A good native is one who learned on his feet... Adaptation has been burned in our genes, we have been places that no one thought anyone could possibly live there... no one could have crossed that desert... or scaled those mountains... Native Americans already did.... So you see... if the Future has changes ahead for us... we will always Adapt to them.

That how it always is... and always will be.

Solar Flare 2011

The Sun started some rather disturbing behavior.... Check out this video just released Feb. 28th 2011.