Posts Tagged ‘Intertribal Friendship House’
Oakland Asian Cultural Center hosts the inaugural Peace Lantern Ceremony
Members of the organization set floating lanterns on Lake Merrit in hope of fostering peace through art.
Read MoreOakland schools celebrate the new year with a festival for students and parents
On Saturday morning parents, students, volunteers and school district staff held hands as they danced to the beat of a drum in the gymnasium of Fruitvale’s United Academy for Success as part the Oakland Unified School District’s first Back to School Festival. They formed a circle, led by members of the Medicine Warriors, a Native American dance troupe. “This dance signifies friendship and unity,” George Galvis of the Native American community center Intertribal Friendship House said to the crowd.
Read MoreNative Americans work to revitalize California’s indigenous languages
California was once home to over 300 Native American dialects and as many as 90 languages. Today, only about half of those languages are still with us and many are working to revive them.
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