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Indigenous Community Arts Activism | Yosemite Miwuk | Mono Lake Paiute | Kashia Pomo | Earth Warrior | Fire Keeper | Fibershed Fellow

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Indigo for BIPOC Community 💙💦🌱

In August w/ I produced this workshop as part of my @fibershed_ fellowship in collaboration with @gracethesoil + @malikarubindavis. Unfortunately, during this time, I was so sick I wasn’t able to get outta bed for 7 straight days! As I lay in a fever of flu that felt like a mortal challenge to my Earthly existence, these beautiful Mamitas dove into the depths of the indigo plant & the color of blue.

Azul, Indigo, Aoi, Blue - The color of summer sadness, deep oceans, infinite skies, so pretty in its tones of cool that it calms the soul. These ladies made my heart feel joy witnessing from afar all the gorgeous beauty they birthed that day. 🙏🏽💙💦🌱

This indigo, grown with deep love in the Fibershed garden in Pt. Reyes, is one variety of this ancient dye plant that has Indigenous roots all over the world. Designing, creating, curating & sharing experiences like these is one of my greatest joys. As a recovering fashion designer & part of healing my art school trauma is working like a bruja with plants, natural dyes, sticks, berries, soil, skins, feathers, shells, nuts & seeds to create beautiful things that come as gifts from the Earth herself. Even though I was forced in fever to hand this off to trusted artist friends, it was still one of my summer highlights to bring this into existence. I am grateful for the community & friends this united. It is a salve to a wounded heart. Let beauty & deep love prevail - Always, no matter what scars & bruises our hearts.
🙏🏽🌍💙💦🌱 by @native___one

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4 days ago

Fibershed Fellowship Buckskin Hide Tanning workshop at @fibershed_ in Coast Miwuk territory, Point Reyes, CA. This three day workshop was open to tribal and BIPOC community in the north Bay Area. We camped out together, ate delicious meals of venison stew, tamales and freshly grown garden gems, sweated, scraped, stretched skins, smoked hides, laughed, shared stories.

As an artist, I pursue craft connected to land. As an Indigenous artist, I am interested in traditional ways of making beautiful, cultural and sacred things. Traditional making takes so much time, intention, collection, observation & practice of technical skill. It is a process slow w/ the seasons, a relationship to land & the sacredness of life that is given by every plant & animal relative. I believe the taking of a life should never be driven by greed, conquest or inhumane dominance over nature. Every animal & plant that gives its life should be honored & celebrated for passing its life force on to us. I am grateful for the lives of these animals that provided their skins to clothe & protect us. I am grateful to community who has a curious fire for life, culture and creating together. I am grateful to J for his decades-long wisdom in truly living off the land like no other (Native or not) that I know and for sharing his experience and knowledge so selflessly w/ community. I am grateful to @malikarubindavis who supported this workshop w/ her kindness and love for creating learning spaces that truly celebrate everyone.

As a Native woman, it has become part of my life journey to work deeply in community, to fertilize creativity & beauty whenever possible w/ those who are eager to learn & share in a way that we can all truly celebrate & accept each other as the complex layers of human life force we are.

Being human can be lonely & difficult at times, but the moments I can create something beautiful w/ people I love is a deeply meaningful gift that helps me keep walking this journey through all the heartbreak, loneliness, strife & challenge. Chūtūy & blessings to this messy experience of being alive & to creating something beautiful, even when it’s hard work.
🙏🏽🪶✨🦌❤️💫 by @native___one

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14 days ago

Wild Horses in the Eastern Sierras: Paiute/Kootzaduka'a territory outside of Benton & Mono Lake where my grandpa is from.
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I was blessed to go on an adventure of a lifetime to meet these beautiful creatures, riding alongside my cousin & horse woman @stephdondero_4, invited on this journey by a longtime friend. My cousin shared her childhood stories of growing up here, hunting with her dad, her grandpa & my grandpa. All strong Paiutes who knew the land & legacy & stories of our ancestral territory around these mountains surrounding Mono Lake. My grandpa rode a black & white palomino named “War Paint” through these mountains while hunting deer. Paiutes were skilled horse people, all the way back to our great, great, great grandfather Bridgeport Tom who was well known for his horsemanship.

It was a women’s healing journey & a sad goodbye to these wild horses who two weeks later would be caught in a federal roundup, their fate to live in captivity or be slaughtered.

We may never know what fate lies ahead for us. Life can bring so many hardships, heartbreaks, challenges & sorrow. It can also bring so many moments of deep beauty & reverence for the power & determination of survival. There’s nothing more to do but keep on riding until our final sunset brings us home. May the journey be filled with love, honor & infinite beauty until our last breath takes us to the spirit world where our ancestors wait for us to return to them.
🙏🏽🪶💫🐴❤️🌌✨⛰️

📸✨ @sacredground_imagery by @native___one

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a month ago

What a beautiful Spring Earth Day in Yosemite & Mariposa ~ My birthplace, & my tribal & ancestral homeland. Spring is springing, flowers are blooming & the falls are raging!
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We had a wonderful spring dance blessing w/ our Miwuk/Paiute dancers in our roundhouse at Wahhoga Village. Lots of smiles, laughter, babies, blessings & good vibes. Just small, family style, bringing it back to the roots. 🙏🏽🌍❤️🪶✨ taken in Yosemite National Park by @native___one

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5 months ago

ThursDates inside the "Good Fire" exhibition was incredible.🔥 We heard from artist Jessa Calderon, regalia maker @native___one, artist @saifazzuz, and basketry and cultural fire specialists Alice Lincoln-Cook and Dr. Brittani Orona, celebrating Indigenous art, land stewardship, and ancestral practices.⁠
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The immersive music set from @welive_inparadise in @town_fare and the handmade goods from @ihootaloowa were the perfect end to our night.⁠
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Join us next week for ThursDates and explore Good Fire: Tending Native Lands with community, music, joy, art, and good vibes.⁠
🎟️ Get your tickets at the link in bio! ⁠
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#ThursDATESatOaklandMuseum #OaklandEvents #GoodFire #NativeStewardship #CulturalBurning #LandBack by @native___one

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7 months ago

Good Fire Tending Native Lands on view at Oakland Museum of California @oaklandmuseumca
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Four years in the making & generations of Ancestral knowledge - Gathering seeds, shells, plant fibers, feathers, tanning hides, furs, shaping abalone & drilling beads. The intimate process w/ natural materials is what connects us to our Indigenous lands & the living plant & animal worlds. The process nurtures relationships w/ the elements of fire, Earth, water and the cycles of the seasons w/ honor & prayers offered to every plant & animal relative that has given itself to the creation of this Regalia.

As my Cali Native lineages span from Northern Coastal Cali north of The Bay Area to the foothills of where the monarch butterflies used to nest in abundance to the Sierra mountains of Yosemite & basin of Mono Lake, all materials were collected in these sacred places, where water meets land, fire kisses the soils and the towering granite peaks commune with Creator.

I am honored to have my work featured in this show, with so many other Native Land & Fire Stewards throughout Cali - Native people who are cousins, aunties, uncles, friends, inspirations, teachers, artists community out there doing good work for the land, uplifting Native culture & creating beauty in this life.

It feels good to birth something beautiful in collaboration w/ the Earth. It’s an honor & great responsibility to be Indigenous & Cali Native.
🌎💫🙏🏽❤️✨🪶 by @native___one

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7 months ago

Food is love. Food is art. Food is culture. Food is sacred. 🙏🏽❤️🌱🪶✨😋

Inspired by yesterday’s California Native Plant & Indigenous Food Symposium at UC Davis, I decided to post some of my Indigenous food pics of deliciousness I’ve gathered, created & been enjoying over the last couple years.

All but a few of these foods are wild collected in my home territory of Mariposa & Yosemite w/ attention to gathering ethics of taking only what I eat or share w/ others & leaving plenty for the animals & for the plant to go to seed.

As a young girl I had the privilege of watching my grandma process acorn in a traditional basket w/ hot cooking rocks in Yosemite Village & gather pinenuts & sourberries w/ her. As long as I remember, acorn & venison have been sacred foods to me. But I also I grew up eating comode food & shopped w/ my mom using food stamps back when they were a book of stamps. I did not grow up in a culinary house, but I believe traveling the world, living in other countries, learning of other cultures & their cuisines inspired my love for adventure for creating my own tasty California Native food dishes. #FuckThatsDelicious #IndigenousFood

1 - Crema de Tamá Chocolates- Sourberry Cream filled chocolates
2- Black Oak Acorn mush w/ fried egg, arugula, corn tortillas
3- Elderberry & Wild plum Compote
4- Creama de Tamá Custard - Sourberry Coconut Cream
5- Kawach / Elderberries
6- Buckeye Mash w/ Smoked Salmon & asparagus garnished w/ Sourberry (Would not recommend eating buckeye, but I’m not dead yet)
7- Black Oak Acorn & Yoghurt w/ Elderberry Syrup
8 - Tamá / Sourberries
9 - Nettle Pesto on Ravioli w/ garden veggies (Nettles collected in Coast Miwok land, veggies grown in home garden)
10 - Wild Grapes Gathered in Yosemite
11 - Dried Wild Rose Hips, banana & walnut w/ Black Oak Acorn Mush
12 - Elderberry & Wild Plum Jam + Almond Butter on homemade toast
13 - Black Oak Acorn Atole infused w/ sourberry & maple syrup
14 - Kawach / Elderberry + home squeezed Juice Paleta
15 - Kawach / Elderberry Juice Smoothie w/ Sea Moss
16 - Tunas for Agua de Tuna
17 - Wild Grape Compote
18 - Baynuts
19 - Gray/Bull Pine Nuts
20 - Kawach / Elderberry Preserve taken in Mariposa, California by @native___one

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8 months ago

One of the best highlights of my year: Hūyū Tepaní Sacred Fire Ancestral Lifeways Gathering & Cultural Burn 🙏🏽🔥❤️💫🪶

What an inspiration to work w/ so many amazing Native people throughout my tribal areas connecting w/ land, fire, culture & traditional Lifeways practices. My homie & dear friend @raygutt34 & I put together this vision of bringing together our tribal people around the sacred element of fire in connection to land & our ancestral Lifeways. We gathered together w/ inter-tribal people for three days in Dunlap, CA territory of Mono, Yokut, Wukchumni of the Sierra Foothills, neighboring territory to my tribe Southern Sierra Miwuk of Mariposa/Yosemite & of Chukchansi & Big Sandy.

All my life I’ve been led & inspired by my family & tribal community & the connections we create w/ each other thru culture & our traditional lifeways, land and spirit. It has shaped who I am and fueled my curiosity to learn as much as I can & share those opportunities to be in community w/ other inspiring Native people. I am honored to be creating w/ all these amazing & heart-led Tribal people doing good work to keep our traditions thriving for future generations.

huy/yu’ hak/sii’
hak/ki/sa’ hay/yee he/laa/kəy
hak/ki/sa’ kəl/lii laa/maa/me/ti
hak/ki/sa’ kəl/lii hal/ley

The fire smokes
The smoke touches the sky
The smoke heals the forests
The smoke heals the Earth

📸✨🙏🏽🪶 @sacredground_imagery

Supported by @ssmnsouthernsierramiwuknation @1stpeoplesfund & Dr. Peter Nelson (Coast Miwok) Dr. Don Hankins @pyrogeographer (Miwok) Dr. Roxanne Cruz @roxymayacruz (Nahua/kitse cha´tña/Zacateco) by @native___one

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One of my most powerful encounters with nature has been with these giant sequoia ancestors. 🙏🏽🌲💕💫 Standing dwarfed next to them, it’s easy to understand how insignificant we are on this planet, and yet our impact as humans has been so devastatingly harmful to our animal & plant relatives 💔 In my own half life, in a short blink of an eye, we’ve seen a 20% loss of these giant ancestors to climate change, drought & catastrophic wildfire. They are currently listed as an endangered species. Within the next generation, they might be completely wiped off the planet. What is humanity doing? Why are we making all the wrong choices when faced with the truth of the consequences left in the wake of our ruin? Why can’t we change our ways & truly learn to love & protect what beauty & majesty we have right before our eyes before it is gone?

Giant sequoias are the largest living species on the planet & among the oldest living organisms on Earth. The oldest known giant sequoia is 3,200–3,266 years old. They are Native to my homeland, the Sierras of California. They are our ancestors who preceded us. Standing next to one of these powerful, giant ancestor trees made me see all too clearly what responsibility we have to protect & honor what we have before we lose it forever. Sometimes it feels like an impossible feat, but I truly hope we can. 🙏🏽🌲💕💫 taken in Kings Canyon National Park by @native___one

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What a profound blessing to learn & create micaceous pottery from the tradition & legacy of Clay Raven Felipe Ortega in the ancient ways of Jicarilla Apache pottery w/ dear friends at @owl_peak_studio.

It was a week of hands deep in soil & clay creating Earth Baskets for cooking, drinking, honoring sacred foods w/ community. Clay & sparkling minerals of mica were molded & formed by hand coils into vessels and fired in open flames rooted in Indigenous traditions connected directly to the Earth.

There were long days filled with hard work, laughter, friendship & the most excellent, delicious food from a multitude of global destinations cooked lovingly by our hosts & teachers. I am excited to make my own foods in these vessels infused w/ Indigenous heritage, Earth, clay, love, laughter, friendship & tradition. A true gift of creation. I feel honored by this sacred experience & now have gifted my kitchen with vessels of sparkling ✨🧡✨ beauty to prepare nourishment for myself & loved ones.

🙏🏽🤎✨🪶🌍💫 taken in Lamadera, New Mexico by @native___one

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Firekeeper ~ Hūyū Tepaní❤️‍🔥🔥🙏🏽✨🪶

Over the last four years I found myself drawn like a moth to the flames. What started out of impotent fear of the threat of catastrophic wildfire & a broken heart from seeing our sacred forests & tribal homes decimated by fire, began a journey to deepen my relationship with this sacred & powerful element of life ~ hūyū. 🔥

Through this journey I’ve met many amazing land stewards & fire practitioners, ecologists & firefighters. In these experiences, I’ve created deep relationships w/ all these amazing people while working together on the fire line. I’ve met so many dedicated tribal people who have a deep, deep love & passion for tending their ancestral & settled homelands & regaining their own cultural practices around fire. I’ve learned so much about my own self & my relationship to land, animals, plants & this sacred, powerful element. I’ve seen my physical limitations & have been broken down by my aging body’s own mortal existence. I’ve stood directly in the face of flame & realized I am no match for the intense power of fire. I’ve been utterly humbled & profoundly inspired.

I’ve learned a lot about fire behavior, landscape & what “Cultural Fire” means. Not every fire is a cultural fire or good fire, but fire on our wild landscapes has been happening since the beginning of creation, intertwined w/ our relation to everything living. In my work & relationship to fire some things are certain: Through fire I’ve deepened sacred relationships to humanity, Indigeneity, land, life, self & this powerful element of creation & destruction.

📸✨ Spring Burns 2025: Redwood Grove of Old Trees - Occidental, CA & Sonoma Mountain - Petaluma, CA

Yah’whi Hūyū Tepaní 🙏🏽💫🪶🔥❤️‍🔥✨ by @native___one

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This year I had the privilege to help plant White Root Sedge (Carex Barbarae) grown from seed for a Native Weaving Garden @fibershed_ This plant is highly prized as basketry weaving material for Coastal Cali Natives, specifically Coast Miwuk & Pomo people. After about three years of growth, these rhizomes can be harvested for weaving. I also harvested and split some rhizomes from previously established White Root which will be woven into baskets coming into creation.
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“Historically, riparian forest understory was tended by Cali Native people prior to European settlement. Most areas with desirable rhizomes were harvested every two to four years. This maintained a lawn-like, grassy appearance under California riparian forests. Given the high population of native peoples in California, particularly in the low elevation range, most available plants in suitable soils were sustainably harvested.

White Root is one of the most difficult plants for basket weavers to obtain due to elimination of traditional gathering sites and difficulty accessing those still remaining. Valley oak riparian woodlands have diminished to less than five percent of their original range. Many traditional gathering sites have been eliminated or destroyed. Where gathering sites still exist, access for Indian people to private or public lands has been difficult. Facilitating access for tending and gathering traditional materials is a top priority for California Indian Basketweavers.” (NRCS ~ Kat Anderson)

This plant is incredibly important for healthy habitat of many species of birds & small forest creatures who who feed on their seeds & for many other forest relatives who seek shelter in the grasses including reptiles, amphibians, deer, rabbits, etc. Leaves are eaten by black bear, jack rabbit, porcupine, among other relatives. Sedge is critical to riparian habitat restoration, stabilizes creek banks & provides an effective fire break for low intensity fires.

Cover Photo: @paigegreenphoto
Climate Beneficial Wool Plant Print Cape @_.earth.my.body._ taken in Point Reyes Station, California by @native___one

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