
A Virtual Gathering: Indigenous Peoples' Day
Santa Rosa Junior College
October 11, 2021
11:00 am -3:00 pm
Virtual Gathering
11:00 am | Opening Prayer and Blessing
Dean Hoaglin, Coast Miwok, Pomo, Yuki, and Wailaki
11:15 am | Santa Rosa Junior College Land Acknowledgement
Sandy Sigala, Hopland Band of Pomo Indians
11:30 am | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: What's Happening Today
April McGill, Yuki Round Valley and Wappo Alexander Valley
12:00pm | Cultural Identity, Resiliency, and Child Development
Maleese Warner, Mescalero Apache and Cherokee
Jennifer Perez, Isleta Pueblo
12:30 pm | Traditional Pomo Dancing
1:00 pm | Walking in Three Worlds: SRJC Alumni, Employee and Licensed Clinician
Brijida "Brijit" Christina Alemán, AMFT and APCC, Hopeland Band of Pomo Indians and Mexican American Heritage
1:20 pm | Critical Indigenous Theory: Through the Lense of Cultural Sustainability
Leah Mata Fragua, Yak Tityu Tityu Yak Tithini N. Chumas
2:00 Pm | Climate Justice, Adaptation, and INvesting in Indigenous Power
Kailea Fredrick, Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American
2:30 pm | Generations of Surviving Through Tradition and Art
L Frank Manriquez, Tongva Ajachemen Tribes, Artist, Activist
3:00 pm | Closing Prayer
Brenda Flyswithhawks, Tsalági Eastern Cherokee
Sponsored by SRJC Native American Faculty and Staff Association