Ohlone People: Survivance to Thrivance

Introduction about Ohlone Territory and educational video about the Indigenous Peoples of the Bay Area, CA

Goals of the project

Thank you for your interest in 'Ohlone People: Survivance to Thrivance'! Here you will find information about the film and creators, an educational information guide, and other ways to support the Ohlone community. Please check out all the materials before viewing the film which is linked at the end of this guide.

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Community Involved

Gregg Castro and Kanyon Sayers-Roods got together with CrowdedFire Theater and LFK Media to create this educational resource.

Truth In History

Indigenous Groups/Bands and local Indigenous led organizations.


Reading Guide

Recommended reading list from KKLLC and Sogoreate landtrust


Educational Resources

Ohlone Curriculum and other Educational materials.


Community Involved

1a. Gregg Castro [t'rowt'raahl Salinan / rumsien-ramaytush Ohlone], has been involved in the preservation of his cultural heritage for three decades, for both his late Mother’s rumsien Ohlone, and his late Father’s heritage, the since ended ‘Salinan Nation Tribal Council’ (serving two terms as Tribal Chair) and currently the non-profit organization, Salinan T’rowt’raahl. Gregg is a member of the Society for California Archaeology, serving as Native American Programs Committee Chair. Gregg is an Co-Facilitator for the annual California Indian Conference, a 30+ year forum for academia and culture bearers about California Indigenous heritage. He is a co-founder and advisor to the California Indian History Curriculum Coalition, based at CSU-Sacramento, that promotes accurate educational lessons about early state history. He was past board member and adviser with the California Indian Storytelling Association and was also on the Archaeology Resources Committee of the State Historical Resources Commission. He is currently serving as Culture Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) in their San Francisco Peninsula homelands and is an Advisory Board member of the San Francisco American Indian Cultural District. Gregg is a writer and activist in the California indigenous community, on issues regarding preservation, education and traditional practices. https://kanyonkonsulting.com/gregg/


1b. Kanyon Sayers-Roods is a Mutsun-Ohlone California Native public speaker and consultant. Kanyon also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman” (Hahashkani). With a background in web design and interactive media, Kanyon has been using her knowledge of indigenous insights and leadership to initiate and facilitate conversations that bridge the gap between indigenous pedagogies and corporate and state entities.

Kanyon has spoken, giving land acknowledgements, keynotes and talks at venues including the 2020 UN Youth Summit for the UN Ocean Decade, Bay Area Youth Climate Summit, SF Asian Art Museum, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, Oakland Museum of California, SF Moma, SF City College and the DeYoung Museum and was proud to open the SF Women’s March in November 2020. Kanyon has served on the Native Advisory Committee at CSUMB, as a consultant for EEOC (Environmental Educators of Color) and serves as a board member for NACRI (Native California Research Institute), ACORN.wiki - All California Oratory Resource Network. Kanyon is an osher fellow with the Exploratorium, and assists the Native American Programs Committee of the SCA (Society for California Archaeology)

Kanyon is a Cultural Representative and Native Monitor (MLD Most Likely Descendant) for Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan|Ohlone People. She is OSHA10 certified and works alongside Archeologists in the field offering cultural perspective on today’s common practices and sacred site protections. Kanyon has worked as a teacher’s assistant for Earth Activist Training’s Permaculture Design Certification and uses her knowledge of indigenous pedagogies to inspire transformative climate conversations and strategize for sustainable futures. Her work has been focusing on Cultural Competency, reminding JEDI circles (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) that we need to #HonorTruthInHistory and acknowledge Indigenous protocols to truly restore our relationship to the earth and sacred living systems through reciprocal accountable actions and efforts. https://kanyonkonsulting.com/coyotewoman/


1c. LFK Media helps businesses and nonprofits stand out from the crowd with documentary style video production that attracts true fans. A holistic understanding is at the core of everything they do. That's why they, Lorenzo & Marisa, combined forces. With Lorenzo's business background and Marisa's training in theater they create engaging videos designed to achieve marketing objectives. They have worked with companies such as FaultLine Theater, Z Space, CalShakes, Crowded Fire Theater, and Shotgun Players to create engaging videos and supportive marketing content. www.lfkmedia.com



1d. Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) is a vital home for fierce new plays in San Francisco. Known for developing and presenting innovative and provocative new plays, CFT has spent nearly 25 years contributing to the creation of a contemporary canon that reflects the diverse world in which we live. Crowded Fire has been described in American Theatre Magazine as “instrumental in introducing the Bay Area to new writers who push the boundaries of what theatre can be” and “one of the most reliable local stops for high-quality new work by diverse voices.” In addition to a mainstage show season presented as a resident company of San Francisco's Potrero Stage, CFT offers a robust new play development program: The Matchbox @ Crowded Fire actively supports the creation of high quality contemporary theater through commissions, in-house workshops, and an annual free public reading series. http://www.crowdedfire.org/about/

Indigenous Groups + Organizations

Educational Resources

Ohlone Curriculum

The Ohlone Curriculum by East Bay Regional Parks developed a curriculum developed for the Ohlone peoples of the East Bay

https://www.ebparks.org/programs/educators/ohlone-curriculum


Living with the Land

Living with the Land allows students to explore human relationship with the natural world from the perspective of Ohlone Indigenous knowledge and contrasting western science approaches. By observing the wetland’s past and present, students learn about what wetlands provide and how humans impact this habitat.

https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/education/living-with-the-land.htm


California Indian History Curriculum & Lesson Plans

CIHCC is a group of educators, tribal scholars, and native activists who promote the creation, adoption and implementation of California Indian-vetted curricula

https://www.csus.edu/college/education/engagement/california-indian-coalition-curriculum.html

Recommended Reading Materials

Book Recommendation list from Kanyon Konsulting website:


  • An American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, Benjamin Madley

  • Resurrecting the past, The California Mission Myth, Michelle M. Lorimer, PhD

  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, David Stannard

  • Tending the wild, Kat Anderson

  • The Ohlone Past and Present: Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 42)- Lowell John Bean

  • We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, Edited by: Dahr Jamail Stan Rushworth

  • We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, By: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

  • The Dirt is Red Here, Art and Poetry from Native California Edited by Margaret Dubin

  • First Families A Photographic History of California Indians, L Frank and Kim Hogeland

  • The Morning the Sun Went Down, Darryl Base Wilson

  • Indians and Intruders in Central California 1786-1849, George Hardwood Phillips

  • Grave Matters Excavating California’s Buried Past, Tony Platt

  • If the Truth Be Told Lessons of the Innocence Denied, Cases in California Genocide 1852-1887, Edited and introduction by Jack Norton Author Genocide in Northwestern California

  • The Destruction of California Indians, Robert E. Heizer

  • A Gathering of Voices, The Native Peoples of the Central California Coast

  • Indians of California The Changing Image, James J Rawls

  • The Ohlone Way – Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area, Malcolm Margolin Illustrated by Michael Harney

  • Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir, Deborah A. Miranda

  • Life in a California Mission Monterey in 1786 – A California Legacy book, The Journal of Jean Francois de la Perouse

  • An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Indian Summer – Traditonal life among the Choimumni Indians of California’s San Joaquin Valley, Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

  • The Modoc War – A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of Americas Gilded Age, Robert Aquinas McNally

  • Indian Water Policy in a Changing Environment

  • We Are Dancing for You, Dr.Cutcha Risling Baldy

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (New Directions in Sustainability and Society), by Melissa K. Nelson, Daniel Shilling

  • Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future Paperback – January 16, 2008, by Melissa K. Nelson

List Below From: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/recommended-reading/

Rematriation /Unsettling/Land Return

Books

  • Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles

  • An American Genocide, The US and the California Indian Catastrophe by Benjamin Madley

  • A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Trival Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, Randall Milliken

  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, Savid Stannard

  • California through Native Eyes, by William J. Bauer, Jr.

  • Columbus and Other Cannibals, by Dr. Jack Forbes

  • Resurrecting the Past, The California Mission Myth Michelle M Lorimer

  • Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right Anders Stephanson

  • What Does Justice Look Like? By Waziyatawin

  • Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation by Beth Rose Manning

Decolonization

  • Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity Chandra Talpade Mohanty,

  • Decolonizing Methodologies, Research and Indigenous People Linda Tuhiwai Smith

For Indigenous Relatives

Allyship and Solidarity

Questions?

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