Join us for a screening of the film LAND/TRUST (2022) followed by a discussion with Alexii Signona and Ruth Anne Beutler. LAND/TRUST (2022) documents the effort to restore the coastal prairie in the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve at Año Nuevo State Park, which encompasses the former site of Mitenne, a village of the Awaswas-speaking Quiroste people. The Amah Mutsun Tribal band currently stewards the land and maintains the memory of the Quiroste ancestors. Through re-establishing traditional land management practices and an intensive plant propagation project, the work is revitalizing many native coastal prairie plant populations.

Presenters:

Alexii Signona, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC, Berkeley, and Tribal Member, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

Ruth Anne Beutler, Film and Digital Media, UC-Santa Cruz

Sponsors:

College of Arts and Sciences Division of Social Sciences

Department of Anthropology

Food Studies

Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies

Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Native American and Indigenous Studies 

Oregon Humanities Center's Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities