Indigenous People's Day
Two-Day Indigenous People's Day Event To Highlight Indigenous, Native and Frontline Communities
Dates: Monday October 10, 2022 & Tuesday October 11, 2022 Location: Santa Monica, CA (Various Spaces)
Various Hosted Physical Spaces and Virtual Spaces Will Be Used - Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica College - Pico Youth & Family Center, Santa Monica, CA - Fowler Museum, UCLA - San Quintin, Baja California - Oaxaca, Mexico - Zoom Live Streaming |
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9AM - 12PM (Moment #1) | Tongva Celebration & Dance @Tongva-Park
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Monday October 10, 2022 9AM-12PM
Tongva Park, Santa Monica, California Tongva Indian Tribe Culture & Dance In-Person Celebration and Dance Virtual Live Streaming and Media Social and Community Discussions |
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3PM - 4PM (Moment #2) | Panel Discussions & Seminar @SMC-Barrett-Gallery
From 3PM - 4PM, we will discussing various topics about indigenous global groups, and LA diasporas, and overall community discussions that are centered around collective issues facing indigenous populations globally. We will also be celebrating and bring awareness of the Just Transition from Columbus Day to Indigenous Day. As we continue to learn more about the indigenous perspectives, we also get a chance to explore various cultural significances occuring today.
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Abel Valenzuela is a professor in the César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o and Central American Studies and holds joint appointment in the Department of Urban Planning. His research is primarily concerned with the issues faced by minorities and immigrants in the U.S. His work focuses on three key interrelated areas: 1) immigration and labor markets, 2) poverty and inequality, and 3) immigrant settlement patterns.
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Dr. Raul Hinojosa: UCLA NAID Global Modeling Platform Allows for detailed geographic recognition of indigenous areas and restorative justice scenarios both in the North and the Global South, providing UN COP 27 a platform for Voices of Strategic Struggles For Climate Justice and Sustainability from Frontline, Native and Indigenous Communities
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Magali Sanchez-Hall: Wilmington CA, Frontline community women fighting environmental racism for 150 years, from native lands to historic predominately immigrant communities, now with strongly Michoacan P’urepechua indigenous migrations, creating a just transitions from Oil refineries and the Port of LA to a future of green jobs and zero-carbon energy.
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Isabel Cruz Hernandez: Building Indigenous organizing of Microbanks Cross-Borders, From California Norte a San Quintin, BC to Oaxaca and Puebla. Mobile based Bono Migrante for sustainable bio-diverse development.
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Maasai Tribal Representatives: (names withheld), will speak on the struggles to maintain their ancestral lands and their plan for peace and a future of sustainable development based on their beautiful culture and science rooted in thousands of years of ecological integration.
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4:30PM - 5PM (Moment #3) | Panel Discussions @SMC-Barrett-Gallery
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Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, editor of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and founding editor-in-chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (UC Press). Her research focuses on the art of the early modern Ibero-American world as well as contemporary Chicanx visual culture.
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Aguanita Zamora (P’urhepecha)
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Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562, has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.
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Maasai Women Leaders
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Oscar De La Torre is a City Council Member for Santa Monica, CA. Oscar is known as the founder of the Pico Youth and Family Center and his work as a SMMUSD school board member.
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Marcos Aguilar is the executive director of the Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America. The public charter school in LA has a focus on indigenous culture in addition to typical academics.
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Hector Pacheco
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Tuesday October 11th, 2022
Project 562
https://www.project562.com
9AM - 12PM (Moment #1) | Culture Exchanges & Student Discussions (TBD)
3PM - 6PM (Moment #2) | Project562 Keynote by Matika Wilbur @SMC-Barrett-Gallery
6PM - Night (Moment #3) | Reception with Indigenous Dancers and Singers featured in Project562 @SMC-Barrett-Gallery
Exhibition
"Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America"
The Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
August 15, 2022 - May 15, 2023
Keynote Speech and Gallery Reception
The Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
October 11, 2022
"Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America"
The Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
August 15, 2022 - May 15, 2023
Keynote Speech and Gallery Reception
The Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
October 11, 2022
Tuesday October 11, 2022
9AM
- Santa Monica College Spaces To Showcase Current Indigenous Arts and Culture
- Logistics For Students and Presenters
- Discuss Climate Positive Initiatives + History, Politics, Social…
- Culture Exchanges, TBD
3PM: Project562 Keynote by Matika Wilbur
- Student Services at Santa Monica College Main Campus
6PM: Reception with Indigenous Dancers and Singers featured in Project562
- Barrett Gallery at Santa Monica College
9AM
- Santa Monica College Spaces To Showcase Current Indigenous Arts and Culture
- Logistics For Students and Presenters
- Discuss Climate Positive Initiatives + History, Politics, Social…
- Culture Exchanges, TBD
3PM: Project562 Keynote by Matika Wilbur
- Student Services at Santa Monica College Main Campus
6PM: Reception with Indigenous Dancers and Singers featured in Project562
- Barrett Gallery at Santa Monica College
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Meso-America Diasporas & CommunitiesFrom Los Angeles to Baja California to Oaxaca. Various frontline communities will be present.
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Purpose: To Celebrate Indigenous People's Day, and To Bring Awareness To The Community About Indigenous People’s Cultures and Issues.
There are an estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Although they make up just 6 percent of the global population, they account for about 19 percent of the extreme poor. While Indigenous Peoples own, occupy, or use a quarter of the world’s surface area, they safeguard 80 percent of the world's remaining biodiversity. They hold vital ancestral knowledge and expertise on how to adapt, mitigate, and reduce climate and disaster risks. Most frontline climate and equity disadvantaged communities are native and indigenous populations in the Global South or members of native, immigrant and Diaspora communities in the North. |
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Objective: To bring together various Indigenous Peoples and cultures around the world to be celebrated. To use community spaces and technology tools to spread awareness and deeper understanding of Indigenous culture. To highlight Indigenous People’s Day. Communities: California American Indigenous Communities, Meso-American Indigenous Communities, Massai Indigenous African Community,
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Native America & Project 562Artist and Native Indigenous Photographer, Matika Wilbur, presents ideas for the future through art, culture and visuals.
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Maasai Group From AfricaMaasai representatives share a significant perspective in the modern and current issues that indigenous communities face.
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Monday October 10, 2022
9AM-12PM: Tonga Park Dance - In-Person Celebration and Show - Virtual Live Streaming and Media - Social and Community Discussions 3PM-5:30PM: Panel Discussion & Seminar on Indigenous, Native and Frontline Communities in the UN COP 27 Global Climate Conference Agenda. Seminar will focus on the Global Position of 500 million Indigenous Peoples. - 3-4PM Introductions and First Panel Discussion (Abel Valenzuela Jr.) - Panel: Raul Hinojosa Ojeda, Magali Sanchez-Hall (Los Angeles), Isabel Cruz Hernandez (Mexico), Maasai Representatives (Kenya), Indigenous Representatives (Global) Panel will address: - Dr. Raul Hinojosa: UCLA NAID Global Modeling Platform Allows for detailed geographic recognition of indigenous areas and restorative justice scenarios both in the North and the Global South, providing UN COP 27 a platform for Voices of Strategic Struggles For Climate Justice and Sustainability from Frontline, Native and Indigenous Communities - Magali Sanchez Hall: Wilmington CA, Frontline community women fighting environmental racism for 150 years, from native lands to historic predominately immigrant communities, now with strongly Michoacan P’urepechua indigenous migrations, creating a just transitions from Oil refineries and the Port of LA to a future of green jobs and zero-carbon energy. - Isabel Cruz Hernandez: Building Indigenous organizing of Microbanks Cross-Borders, From California Norte a San Quntin, BC to Oaxaca and Puebla. Mobile based Bono Migrante for sustainable bio-diverse development. - Maasai Tribal Representatives (names withheld), will speak on the struggles to maintain their ancestral lands and their plan for peace and a future of sustainable development based on their beautiful culture and science rooted in thousands of years of ecological integration. - Roundtable Discussion from Indigenous Communities without Borders - The Just0 Transition From Columbus to Indigenous People’s Day - 4-430PM: Break - 4:30-5:30: Second Panel Discussion: Charlene Villasenor Black, Aguanita Zamaora (P’urhepecha), Matika Wilbur, Maasai Women Leaders, Oscar De La Torre, Marcos Aguilar, Hector Pacheco |
Sponsored By: UCLA NAID Center, United Nations Climate Change Division, Art Department SMC, and Youth Center Santa Monica, and more…
Other Sponsoring groups, Institute of the Americas, UCSD, Universidad Indigenista, Baja California, UACO
Other Sponsoring groups, Institute of the Americas, UCSD, Universidad Indigenista, Baja California, UACO
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