The only extant video of Mabel McKay, speaking to a classroom.
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A stop motion video on the life of Mabel McKay, animated with her belongings and narrated by her son Marshall McKay.
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The Pomo people have been in California for millennia. This video explores the history of the Pomo people and the fight to keep their traditions alive.
Craig Torres of Chia Cafe Collective talks about how educators train modern society to phase out the harmful elements of their diets.
Herbalist Sage LaPena explains that a resurgence of traditional medicinal practices in Native communities and in popular culture often leads to a lack of access by Native communities to needed plants.
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Tima Link on Revitalizing Native Basketry Traditions
Many California Native tribes over the last 150 years have struggled to maintain a sense of self in our ever-changing cultural and ecological landscape. Here, weaver Tima Link explains that native culture still exists, it is just harder to find.
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Kat High on Establishing Native Gardening Areas in Local Communities
The knowledge of native people about plants and their uses is open to everyone if they are willing to learn. Hoopa tribe descendant, Kat High, talks about the need to establish gardening areas in local communities.
If we see Native people as expert colleagues instead of historical figures, we all stand a greater chance of working together.
Native artisans face the challenge of protecting threatened bird species while preserving their cultural traditions.
Traditional Environmental Knowledge includes education and activism. Mabel McKay embodied both.
A brief introduction to the original California cuisine.
Activist cooks are working to "reindigenize" California by promoting native food plants.
