Students from my Fall 2015 San José State University class produced two micro-documentaries on different aspects of Bay Area Ohlone culture. The first film featured Kanyon Sayers-Roods, a Mutson (Coastanoan) Ohlone artist, activist, poet, crafter and Native representative. She speaks of her language, her life’s work, and a recently published book on Ohlone culture she produced […]

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This Fall 2015 semester, as part of an ongoing effort to recognize and conserve biocultural diversity, two new bilingual animated story films in the Pomo and Hupa languages were created by San José State University students. The Native languages of California are among the most highly endangered languages in the world. We support the ongoing […]

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Stewart Wilburn is master beadworker and a Wailaki/Tolowa/Pomo/Wintu artist. We adopted one another several years back, and have traveled together around Northern California attending tribal gatherings. This semester my San Jose State University students produced a book for and about Stewart:  a collection of his artwork, quotes, photos, and an interview one of the students […]

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Writing is an act of courage, faith, heart, and joy. For the past seven years I’ve worked at crafting true stories (creative nonfiction essays), centered around my life as an ethnoecologist. I’ve gone through hundreds of drafts, dozens of rejections. My first essay to be nominated for a Pushcart was published in Fall 2014 by […]

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