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Fresno State volition big the 34th yearly California Indian Conference connected Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19, successful the Ellipse Gallery and the Table Mountain Rancheria Reading Room located successful the Fresno State Library.
The league provides a forum for the sharing of knowledge, scholarship, and issues of value related to Native California and will diagnostic insubstantial presentations, panels, roundtable discussions, creation and vendors.
“The California Indian Conference welcomes Native American and non-Native academics, tribal scholars, educators, and students with representatives of tribal communities and organizations, NGOs, nationalist agencies and institutions whose enactment focuses connected California Native peoples, tribes, individuals, and tribal sovereignty,” said Dr. Leece M. Lee-Oliver, manager of American Indian Studies astatine Fresno State. “The league is unfastened to the wide nationalist of each ages.”
The California Indian Conference was founded astatine UC Berkeley successful 1985 and is 1 of the largest gatherings of academics and Native radical successful the authorities focused connected the preservation and revitalization of the galore divers cultures indigenous to California.
This year’s league taxable is “Sovereignty Movements” and volition diagnostic speakers connected accepted ecological knowledge, biology stewardship, clime change, ineffable tract preservation, Indigenous perspectives connected education, connection revitalization (including section Choinumni, Chukchansi, Mono and Wuksachi languages), handbasket weaving, effect banking, nutrient sovereignty, workforce development, nationalist past and CalNAGPRA (human remains and taste belongs) repatriation and compliance.
The 2024 league was made imaginable by backing from the President’s Office, the Provost’s Office, the College of Social Sciences and American Indian Studies program. Tribal co-sponsors see the North Fork Mono Tribe, Chalon Indian Nation, Cold Springs Rancheria, the Fresno American Indian Health Project, and CAL TERRA, a Native-serving exigency effect organization.
“After a agelong pandemic-related hiatus, we are arrogant to big the California Indian Conference astatine Fresno State. This is the archetypal gathering of the CIC ever held successful Central California, arsenic the contented of the league for galore years was to alternate betwixt bluish and confederate California campuses successful the UC and CSU systems,” said Dr. Kenneth Hansen, Fresno State professor. “We are blessed to diagnostic galore of our friends and neighbors from section tribes who are Native artists, linguists, civilization bearers, assemblage and authorities leaders, moving to reassert and instrumentality backmost their inherent sovereignty.”
