Indigenous Design: Emerging Gifts — A Presentation by Renown Indigenous Architect Johnpaul Jones
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall, Washington, DC
Vancouver Landbridge
Native American Heritage Month Media Posts
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/san-fernando-valley-ventura/in-focus/2023/11/21/native-american–heritage
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/human-interest/2023/11/14/harmony-in-heritage–native-american-students-embrace-and-showcase-heritage-with-music-and-dance#
California Indian Conference 2020 Digital Exhibition
https://cic.library.fresnostate.edu/exhibition/
50th Annual Pow Wow, Postponed until Further Notice!
The CSULB Pow Wow originally scheduled for March 14 & 15 2020 has been postponed until further notice. Come join us for the 50th Annual CSULB Pow Wow at Puvungna. The largest and oldest student sponsored event on campus, our celebration of life is attended by the CSULB American Indian community, alumni, staff, students, faculty, the general public, dancers, singers and venders who make up the over six-thousand people who attend our annual celebration of Native American Culture at “the Beach.” Held at the upper campus quad, the event is free however parking is $10 per day. To learn more about the 50th Annual Pow Wow click on this link and the links in the column to the right to see past Pow Wows at the Beach.
Debut of Virtual Reality experience of the Birth of the Tongva People
BIRTHPLACE OF THE PEOPLE
A 14 minute 360/VR experience that illustrates the birth of the Tongva People on the site of Puvungna- what is now the CSULB campus. This one-of-a-kind experience created by students and faculty in the Anthropology Department, will be featured in the “Igloo” Cylindrical VR Theater, located in the CSULB Library’s
Gerald M. Kline Innovation Space.
The film will run continuously between 12pm and 2pm, with each viewing accommodating 20 viewers.
WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY DAY | FEBRUARY 20TH, 2020
Roundtable discussions with Scott Wilson (Anthropology), Cindy Alvitre (American Indian Studies) and Carly Lake (Artist) will take place at 12:30pm and 1:30pm, in the room adjacent to the Innovation Space.
Dream the Impossible Native Youth Conference April, 2020
CSULB will host the 14th Annual Dream the Impossible Native American Youth Conference on has been postponed!
For details see: http://dticonference.org.
http://dticonference.org./
49th Annual Pow Wow
Celebrating 50 Years of American Indian Studies at CSULB.
Rain or Shine, the CSULB American Indian community, alumni, staff, students, faculty and the general public who make up the six-thousand visitors who attend our annual celebration of Native American Culture at “the Beach” this year on March 9 & 10, 2019 at the 49th Long Beach Pow Wow at Puvungna.
To learn more about the Annual Pow Wow check out the links on the right column of the AIS Main Page and the following link. Link to Pow Wow Information
48th Annual Pow Wow Rain or Shine
Rain or Shine, the CSULB American Indian community, alumni, staff, students, faculty and the general public who make up the six-thousand visitors who attend our annual celebration of Native American Culture at “the Beach” this year on March 10 & 11, 2018 at the 49th Long Beach Pow Wow at Puvungna.
To learn more about the Annual Pow Wow check out the links on the right column of the AIS Main Page and the following link. Link to Pow Wow Information
Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds
The American Indian Studies Program and the School of Art is pleased to present a Reception for Edgar Heap of Birds on February 8, 2018, in USU-310 at 5:00 pm, followed by a Presentation in Lecture Hall 150 at 7:00 PM. His new exhibition, Do Not Dance For Pay opens on February 10, 2018.
Click link for information about Reception and Lecture : heap of birds flyer
See below for information about Exhibition:
Garis & Hahn presents Do Not Dance For Pay
Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds
February 10 – March 10, 2018
Opening Reception: February 10th | 5-8pm
January 25, 2018 (Los Angeles, CA) Garis & Hahn is pleased to present Do Not Dance for Pay,
a survey of work by the renowned multi-disciplinary Cheyenne and Arapaho artist, Hock E Aye
VI Edgar Heap of Birds. Featuring works from six distinct series made over four decades, the
exhibition marks Heap of Birds’ first Los Angeles show in ten years. The title of the exhibition
alludes to indigenous art and its deep-rooted link to tourism and an art market that has been
historically driven by the non-Native. Most artists “dance for pay”, a reference to the making of
apolitical art with the focus on commercial sales–not so with the work of Heap of Birds. This
survey is the artist’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery and will be on view February 10
through March 10, 2018.
In recent years the post-war art historical narrative has been revised, with artists of color, longexcluded
from contemporary art history, finally finding agency for their work. Enter Edgar Heap
of Birds, who was featured on the cover of the October 2017 issue of Art In America.
Throughout his singular four-decade career, Heap of Birds has brandished words as weapons.
The words and phrases he scrawls on his paintings and monoprints act as scathing indictments
of the odious history of appropriation and violence against indigenous people. His words serve
as an effectual counterweight to the biased historical narratives regarding the Native presence.
Through public art pieces, biting political text-based work, poetry, large-scale drawings,
monoprints, signs, and more intimate abstract paintings, Heap of Birds purposefully subverts the
power dynamics between the privileged and the marginalized, conventional society and the
reservation. His multifaceted oeuvre rejects the separation between protest and poetry, taking
aim at a history which obscures the Native population. For his “Native Hosts” series (begun in
the late 1980s), Heap of Birds manipulates institutional regulatory signs which he then installs in
outdoor public spaces. He repurposes these ubiquitous place markers, identifying the tribes that
lived there prior to colonization, explicitly asserting the historical sovereignty of Native nations.
Displacing the authority of the state by printing the official name of the site backwards, these
slyly subversive works remind the public of an unpleasant history, subtly positioning the Native
world in ascendance.
Heap of Birds’ series of monoprints, including “Secrets of Life and Death” and “Dead Indian
Stories”, are text-based works, which express brutal truths about the subjugation of Native
Americans in the United States. Other pieces are more personal, proffering reflections of his
own subjective Native experience. Relatedly, the continuing “Neuf” series of abstract paintings
are derived from his experiential memories of the landscape of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
Reservation.
Heap of Birds roots his practice in Cheyenne spirituality and the indigenous way of seeing and
being in the world. He asks critical questions about history and identity, time and modernity,
social justice and personal freedom, power and the value of contemporary art in today’s society-
-questions he’s been asking for decades that currently lie at the center of our national debate.
He has compared his art to “sharp rocks”, i.e. arrow heads of the past, an apt metaphor for his
excoriating critiques regarding the loss of autonomy for the Native American. Focusing on the
survival of Native peoples in contemporary society, Heap of Birds intends to honor indigenous
citizens of ancient and contemporary communities, while inviting the non-Native public to gain a
broader cultural and historical understanding.
About Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds
Heap of Birds received his Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University
(1979) and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, (2008). The artist has exhibited his works at The Museum of Modern
Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY;
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Documenta, Kassel, Germany; University Art
Museum, Berkeley, California; Association for Visual Arts Museum, Cape Town, South Africa;
Hong Kong Art Center, China; Grand Palais, Paris, France; and the 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy
as part of the Smithsonian’s entry.
About Garis & Hahn
Garis & Hahn is a gallery-cum-Kunsthalle that mounts exhibitions focused on conceptual
narratives and relevant conversations in contemporary art. By displaying an array of carefully
curated artists, the gallery endeavors to provide accessibility, education, awareness, and a
market to the art while engaging both the arts community and a broader general audience.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm
Contact Information:
1820 Industrial Street Los Angeles, CA 90021
(P) 213.267.0229 | (E) info@garisandhahn.com
47th Annual Pow Wow
Thank you to everyone who joined us at our annual Celebration of life, the 47th Annual Pow Wow at Puvungna. We are feeling very grateful for the continued support for the largest and one of the oldest students sponsored events at CSULB that took place on March 11 & 12.
Save the Date: Mark your calendars to join the CSULB American Indian community, alumni, staff, students, faculty and the general public who make up the six-thousand visitors who attend our annual celebration of Native American Culture at “the Beach” next year on March 10 & 11, 2018 at the 48th Long Beach Pow Wow at Puvungna.
A special thanks to our student volunteers who had us set up in record time. Students who were interested in learning more about the meaning and significance of Pow Wow were able to enroll in a new one-unit course designed specifically for Pow Wow volunteers. This Art 490 Special Topics course and other three-unit AIS courses, allowed students to attend Pow Wow volunteer workshops and also earn course credit to volunteer at the Annual Pow Wow.
To learn more about the Annual Pow Wow check out the links on the AIS Main Page and the following link. Information about Pow Wow