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Dragonfly Lecture by Daniel McCarthy, tribal relations manager for San Bernardino National Forest, will share Cahuilla strategies for gathering and preparing this traditional food.
Details: 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, 17 W. Hays, Banning, CA. FREE; donations gratefully accepted.

Artist Fritz Scholder Redefined Native American Art

By Lauren Monsen
Perhaps no contemporary artist of Native American heritage has been as enigmatic, influential or provocative as the late Fritz Scholder (1937-2005), who almost single-handedly demolished some of the most persistent clichés about the nature of American Indian identity.
Now, three years after Scholder’s death, his prolific output - including paintings, sculptures and lithographs - [...]

UNVEILING OF THE U.S. NATIVE WARRIOR EXHIBIT

Native Americans beat the drum for fallen veterans
By Wendy Thompson, Staff Writer
More than 100 people turned out to honor Native American ancestors, their descendants and all veterans at the unveiling of the U.S. Native Warrior exhibit.
Native American drummers, speakers in Native American regalia, paratroopers from the Boots-N-Chutes All Airborne Association, tribal elders and dignitaries honored [...]

“FIRST FOOTSTEPS”; Exhibit Recognizes Forgotten Chapter in History: Coronado’s First Inhabitants, The Coastal Kumeyaay Indians

Coronado Museum of History & Art
Before the blue arching bridge across the bay, before the Navy on North Island, and even before the Hotel del Coronado, there was just the land and the sea. And on this land lived a society of Kumeyaay Indians, peaceful by nature, but fierce hunters and providers.
The Coronado Museum of [...]

Barona Commemorates 75th Anniversary With First In A Series Of New Exhibitions

Barona Cultural Center & Museum
The Barona Cultural Center & Museum will showcase the intimate photographic works of Tribal Member Mandy Curo beginning April 19, 2007.
The exhibit will offer a unique glimpse of the Barona Indian Reservation as Mandy remembers it from her childhood as well as showcase breathtaking images of landscapes throughout the United States.
A [...]