Opening Ceremony

KUMU KAU`I PERALTO

(bio coming soon)

ROSE HAMMOCK

chiin tha eh. (how are you?) My name is Rose Hammock. My father’s people are Pomo and Wailacki from the Round Valley Indian Reservation and Pomo from the Big Valley Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians. My mother's people are Mexican and Nicaraguan from Mazatlan, Mexico - Managua, Nicaragua - and Acoyapa, Nicaragua. I am an Indigenous college student, ready to graduate with my Associates of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education and my Associates of Science degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences. I serve many roles within my community, one role being a community representative for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) by providing various presentations and art workshops that help raise awareness of this epidemic going on in our Indigenous communities. I travel to many schools within Sonoma and Mendocino County where I do brief presentations that highlight some of the traditional Pomo ways of life, such as our differing languages and what we do each season in the year (i.e. when we pick certain medicines). I have the honor of working with many organizations in my Native and Non-Native community, helping organize events and trainings to help our community come together and share space in a good way. It has been humbling for me to work with the California Rural Indian Health Board, Big Picture Learning Native American Initiative, North Bay Organizing Project, and Sonoma County Indian Health Project just to highlight a few. I hope that through my work in the community I can help spread positivity, love, and motivation to the younger generation to be strong and resilient for our next 7 generations to come after them. yah.wii’ (thank you)

RULAN TANGEN

Rulan Tangen's work explores movement as an evolving language of intertribalism rooted in diverse indigenous cosmologies, as functional ritual for transformation and healing, animating decolonizing process, integrating concurrent universes of ancient futurities in the moment of now, expressing energetic connection with all relations – human and beyond. As Founding Artistic Director/Choreographer of DANCING EARTH, she has passionately cultivated successive generations of Indigenous contemporary performing artists as cultural ambassadors and conduits for social change. She is recipient of 2018-19 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist fellowship for Service, Justice, Freedom, Courage, and Gratitude - and is grateful for all that roots her, for the dreaming and doing of Dancing Earth: moving, shaking and stomping the world into renewal.

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SUNDAY MAY 31