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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The co-curators of a groundbreaking exhibit of Native erotic art will discuss the exhibition, Native American sexuality and indigenous curatorial practices at UC Riverside on Tuesday, Dec. 2. The event begins at noon in Interdisciplinary Building Room 2027, and is free and open to the public. Parking permits may be purchased at the kiosk on West Campus Drive at the University Avenue entrance to the campus. Gwaai Edenshaw, a Haida artist, and author Kwiaahwah Jones, who is o...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Gold Rush brought prosperity to many of the estimated 300,000 prospectors who flocked to California between 1848 and 1855. For a large majority of California Indians, however, the Gold Rush was lethal. An all-day conference at UC Riverside on Friday, Nov. 7, will address what a growing number of scholars have come to regard as the genocide of California Indians. The symposium, "Killing California Indians: Genocide in the Gold Rush Era," will bring together historians a...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The University of California, Riverside will welcome 30 Native American high school students to the campus this month in an eight-day program that will introduce them to college life. Gathering of the Tribes, which begins on Sunday, June 22, is the longest-running program of its kind in Southern California. The event, which began at UCR in 2005, invites Native American students to experience life in a residence hall and the classroom, and provides information about admissions...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The roles of Native American women in their communities and how they continue to change will be examined in the 33rd Annual Medicine Ways Conference at the University of California, Riverside on Saturday, May 10. The event begins at 9:30 a.m. and concludes at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. RSVP to Joshua Gonzales, director of Native American Student Programs, at joshuag@ucr.edu. Parking is free in Lot 1 to those who arrive...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Indigenous choreographers and dance scholars from the United States and New Zealand will gather at the University of California, Riverside April 29-May 2 to explore connections between traditional and contemporary dance and Native traditions, spiritual healing and understandings of how to live as a Native person in the world. The conference, Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside, is free and open to the public. Parking permits for events at UCR are available at the kiosk on West Campus Drive at the University Avenue e...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A series of workshops in the Cahuilla Indian language - which linguists consider an endangered language - begins at the University of California, Riverside on April 15. The workshops, taught by Cahuilla linguist Ray Huaute, are free and open to anyone interested in Native American language. Session dates are April 15, 17, 22 and 24. The three-hour workshops begin at 6 p.m. in the California Center for Native Nations, Interdisciplinary Building 3124. Parking permits may be...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A first-of-its-kind exhibition documenting the life of the Franciscan missionary who founded California’s mission system and the missions’ impact on California Indians and culture — curated by UC Riverside history professors Steven Hackel and Catherine Gudis — opens Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. The exhibition — “Junípero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions” — is unprecedented in i...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Scholars of Native American history will gather at the University of California, Riverside and Sherman Indian High School in Riverside for a two-day symposium, “Sherman Institute: The American Indian Boarding School Experience,” on Feb. 7 and 8, beginning at 9 a.m. The symposium is free and open to the public. Feb. 7 activities will take place in Costo Library, located on the fourth floor of the Tomás Rivera Library at UCR. Parking is $6. The symposium will move to the Sh...
Native Americans from Inland Southern California gathered on the Interdisciplinary Building lawn Dec. 4 to perform a Serrano-Cahuilla ceremony blessing the structure that houses the California Center for Native Nations. Students lined the upstairs balconies as more than 100 faculty, staff and Native Americans — including students from Sherman Indian High School in Riverside — arrived for the Tobacco Blessing Ceremony. Tobacco is sacred to Native Americans, who view it as a gift from the Cre...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Taken from their homes and placed in boarding schools hundreds of miles away, Native American children labored in settings designed to strip them of their culture, convert them to Christianity, and assimilate them into mainstream, 20th century America. At Sherman Institute in Riverside, Calif. — the flagship among 25 federal off-reservation American Indian boarding schools — students who could no longer speak their native languages became alienated from their commu...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Taken from their homes and placed in boarding schools hundreds of miles away, Native American children labored in settings designed to strip them of their culture, convert them to Christianity, and assimilate them into mainstream, 20th century America. At Sherman Institute in Riverside, Calif. — the flagship among 25 federal off-reservation American Indian boarding schools — students who could no longer speak their native languages became alienated from their commu...
