A History of the Pomo People in California | KCET
A History of the Pomo People in California
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.
Co-produced by KCETLink Media Group and the Autry Museum, this six-part multimedia series and one-hour documentary special are presented in association with California Continued, a groundbreaking exhibition now on view at the Autry.
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E1: Cultural Burning - How Native American Peoples Use Fire to Rejuvenate the Land
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Suppressed for over a century, indigenous cultural burning is still practiced today and holds important lessons for managing the threat of destructive wildfires.
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E2: Keeping the River - How the Klamath River's Native Peoples Maintain Their Relationship With Salmon
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The Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa peoples have maintained a close relationship with the Klamath River. They have secured traditional fishing rights and mobilized against the threats of dams and agriculture, setting an example for Native environmental rights.
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E3: Weaving Community - How Native Peoples are Rediscovering Their Basketry Traditions
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Despite barriers to access, traditional gathering and basket weaving is still practiced across California as a new generation is rediscovering and preserving its cultural heritage.
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E4: Decolonizing the Diet - How Native Peoples are Reclaiming Traditional Foods
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The Chia Cafe Collective is working to revive Native food practices and raise awareness about the threats to native plants in Southern California.
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E5: Gathering Medicine - How Native Medicinal Practices Are Thriving Today
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Native herbalism has a long history and continues to be practiced today. This video explores a holistic approach to health and how the environment can inform healthy living.
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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.
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Cahuilla Artist Gerald Clarke Jr. honors his Native American heritage as well as makes a comment about the alcoholism and diabetes that plague native communities. Meet Gerald Clarke Jr and his native weaving creations.
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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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Craig Torres of Chia Cafe Collective talks about how educators train modern society to phase out the harmful elements of their diets.
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"Our tradition says that if we don’t catch salmon, they’ll stop coming back.”
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Here's one answer to LA's "emergency" record snowmelt: give Native people access to their lands.
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KCET is giving away five pairs of tickets to see Native Voices at the Autry’s newest play, "Fairly Traceable." The tickets include admission to the Autry to see the exhibition, “California Continued.”
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To call Native peoples the "original environmentalists" is to mischaracterize their actual relationship to the land.
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