A major exhibition of southern California baskets, “Generations of Symbols,” opens at the San Bernardino County Museum on Saturday, March 13. The exhibit, which will occupy both the Fisk and Schuiling galleries, runs through October 17. It is sponsored in part by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Admission to the exhibit is included in [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2010 by hunwut
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Southwest Museum Docent Council Unveils Tongva Tiat Sculpture
Tongva Tiat Sculpture Dedication Written by Yadhira De Leon
Los Angeles, CA -A Tongva Tiat plank canoe sculpture donated to the museum by the Southwest Museum Docent Council was dedicated on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Mt. Washington.

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by hunwut
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‘Ramp It Up’ tells story of Native America’s vibrant skateboard subculture
New NMAI exhibit traces the sport’s lineage from Native Hawaiian surfing through its latest incarnation
By Kara Briggs, American Indian News Service
The All Nations Skate Jam, held every year at the same time as the Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, N.M., attracts hundreds of American [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Jeanette Steele, Union-Tribune Staff Writer
BALBOA PARK - San Diego’s leading anthropology museum is facing a civil war following the abrupt ouster of its executive director in May.
Some former board members and donors have asked the American Association of Museums to pull the San Diego Museum of Man’s accreditation, saying the Balboa Park institution’s board [...]

Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by hunwut
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Southern California Indian Center will have presence at the Autry August 1-2, 2009
Los Angeles, CA -The Southern California Indian Center (SCIC) has experienced a major impact with the recent economic downturn, leading to cancellation of the largest Pow Wow celebration in Southern California. Many of the SCIC Pow Wow’s services are made possible through generous [...]

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by hunwut
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Tanya Sierra, Staff Writer
BONITA: The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center on Saturday will host “Native Americans: The Way They Camped,” a presentation by Marc Pumpkinthief, a ranger from Sweetwater Summit Park.
At 1 p.m., Pumpkinthief will talk about the Kumeyaay and give examples of the local resources they used in their everyday lives. The presentation will [...]

Posted on July 9th, 2009 by hunwut
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Smithsonian Event Explores Native American Skater Culture
By Ruth McCann, Washington Post Staff Writer
As an ample but staid crowd peers down from balconies and staircases, nine young skateboarders fasten their helmets and scrabble up the sides of a pristine half-pipe, which sits, improbably enough, smack in the middle of the Potomac Atrium at the Smithsonian’s National [...]

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by hunwut
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Pala park is featured in new exhibit at Museum of the American Indian
By Onell R. Soto
NORTH COUNTY - A petition by a bunch of young skateboarders for a skate park on North County’s Pala Indian Reservation has landed the tribe in the Smithsonian, where an exhibit featuring the new park has opened.
A couple of years [...]

Posted on June 15th, 2009 by hunwut
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PALA BAND SELECTED FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION EXHIBIT ON NATIVE AMERICAN SKATEBOARDING
PALA, Calif. – Only a year after opening a new skate park on their reservation, the Pala Band of Mission Indians will be included in a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit on skateboarding in the Native American culture at the National Museum of the American Indian [...]

Posted on June 8th, 2009 by hunwut
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By MELISSA EISELEIN, The Press-Enterprise
Terry Goedel and his son, Michael, performed a traditional American Indian hoop dance at the 45th annual Fiesta at Morongo Reservation’s Malki Museum on Sunday.
The dance tells the story of the world, its people, plants and animals, said Goedel, a Yakima-Tulalip Indian, of Rancho Cucamonga.

Posted on May 24th, 2009 by hunwut
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