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Presentation Topics will include:

Facilitating change in K-12 classrooms incorporating an Indigenous perspective, revitalizing Amah Mutsun community narratives for an Indigenous History of Mission San Bautista, and "We Are Not Animals" Indigenous History of Santa Cruz County

Speakers include: 

• Opening by Chairman Lopez.

• Renya Ramirez (Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe), Professor, UCSC Anthropology Department

• Judith A. Scott (Cherokee/Tsalagi, ᏣᎳᎩ), Professor, UCSC Education Department

• Daisy Martin, Ph.D., Director of the History and Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz

• Rob Q. Cuthrell, Ph.D.; Director of Archaeological Resource Management, Amah Mutsun Land Trust

Topics details:

Facilitating Change in K-12 Classrooms: Incorporating an Indigenous perspective

In fourth grade, many of us received a lop-sided perspective of the California Mission Period that focused on architecture (remember building sugar cube Missions?) rather than people, particularly Indigenous people. This project, funded by Critical Mission Studies (CMS) through the UC Office of the President, is a collaborative effort with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the UCSC History and Civics Project to challenge the dominant view of mission life in our region. Our goal is to expand current practice in teaching about the California mission period in elementary classrooms through professional development, resources, oral histories, and an on-line repository.

Revitalizing Amah Mutsun Community Narratives for an Indigenous History of Mission San Juan Bautista

In the 1920s-30s, members of the Amah Mutsun community worked with Smithsonian ethnologist John P. Harrington to record an immense amount of indigenous knowledge pertaining to the Mutsun language, cultural traditions, and Tribal history. Due to difficulties in accessing and interpreting the archive, the information it contained remained mostly dormant through the 20th century. A recent collaborative project between Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and UC Berkeley has made narrative portions of this material more accessible, and now the Tribe is using the information to create an indigenous history of Tribal experiences at Mission San Juan Bautista.

Dr. Martin Rizzo, CA State Park Historian for the Santa Cruz District will present his lecture titled "We are not Animals": Indigenous history of Santa Cruz County. In the 1800s, as a result of Spanish colonial violence and disruption, Santa Cruz became home to Indigenous people from nearly thirty five different tribes. While the mission was a place of great loss and trauma, it was also a place of steady resistance and rebellion, and Dr. Rizzo will be sharing these stories from his research and forthcoming book.

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More background information: 
https://airc.ucsc.edu/ 
http://amahmutsun.org/