Sierra College 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples Days and Big Time March 14-19 2016

Help Us: The Native American Club's raffle goal is to raise $2000 for this celebration to help cover costs for speakers, artists and dancers, as well as fees for food, equipment rentals, printing, and future endevors of the Native American Club.

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Indigenous Peoples Days and Big Time

The Sierra College Native American Club is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples Celebration,
Yomen Weda (Spring Feast). This multi-day event will take place March 14-19 at Sierra College's Rocklin campus, which is situated in the Nisenan tribal area of the Sierra Foothills. With the complete support of the college's administration, faculty, staff and students, we are inviting Native Peoples and the greater community to gather for an educational and uplifting celebration of the Spring Equinox and share in cultural arts, traditions and learn about issues facing native people today. Our hopes are many: to continue to deepen out understanding and appreciation of Native Peoples' ancestral heritage of the region, to gather, celebrate and foster greater awareness of cultural diversity, ultimately creating a bridge to connect Sierra College and the Native community it serves. We hope this event will continue the series of important new beginnings for the college and its Native American students.

We have scheduled this landmark event and celebration for March 14-19, 2016. This five-day event will include:

Demonstrations/celebrations of art and healing

Plays, art exhibitions, poetry and prose readings

Tours of local museums

Hands-on cultural/art workshops

A Big Time with California dancers

Indian Art Market


 






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What You Could Win

  • "Starry Night"

    Made and donated by: Tiffany Adams

    Award-winning jewelry designer and Chairwoman of the Native American Club at Sierra College, Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi/Konkow/Nisenan), has created a one of a kind piece called “Starry Night”. The necklace is 14-strands of shaped dentalium, olivella shells, dress clams, fried pine nuts, abalone beads, cobalt, purple and burgundy Czech glass beads and is finished with a hand-sewn deer hide tie and hand cut abalone earrings on sterling silver.


    From the roundhouse to the boardroom, this beautiful contemporary finery will go anywhere.