Remembering Who We Are Together
The 10th Annual Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, Remembering Who We Are Together, invites people of all backgrounds to reconnect with Earth-centered ways of knowing carried by peoples and cultures across the world.
Here in California’s Central Valley, these questions are especially urgent. We live in one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, yet our communities also confront food insecurity, extreme heat, water struggles, environmental pollution, displacement, and the difficult conditions faced by many who labor to feed the world. In an age of AI, climate change, and rapid transformation, what might change if we nurtured our relationships with our ancestors, lands, waters, food, and one another?
We honor the Native Nations whose homelands we live, learn, work, and grow food upon. Their enduring presence and sovereignty invite us to understand this place more deeply and to consider our responsibilities within it. Across Native, African American and African diasporic, Mexican/Xicana, immigrant, refugee, and other Central Valley communities, people have carried ancestral knowledge through displacement, enslavement, colonization, migration, and struggles for land, labor, dignity, and belonging. Our histories are distinct, but remembering them can help us recognize the relationships and shared futures that connect the barrio, ranchería, reservation, farm, neighborhood, and city.
Together, we are training to become good ancestors. We ask how tribal sovereignty, food sovereignty, Indigenous knowledge, African diasporic traditions, and our many ancestral ways of knowing can help heal colonial wounds of extraction, disposability, and disconnection that affect all living beings.
What would it mean to make decisions today with future relatives in mind, including people we will never meet, our rivers and groundwater, the soil beneath our farms, pollinators, ocean life, plants, animals, and the biodiverse creepy crawlers beneath our feet?
We remember so that we can repair, reconnect, and leave a more livable Central Valley and Earth for those yet to come.
The program includes:
- Welcome, blessing and opening
- Indigenous knowledge workshops
- Indigenous foods dinner and community gathering
- Community program
- Collective closing
All are welcome to attend.
Parking in Lot 8