Coming soon ...
Native Women & Young Girl's Conference

Saturday, September 18, 2010
9am - 5pm
523 International Boulevard
Oakland, Ca 94606

For more info, contact
Carol Wahpepah
(510) 836-1955

Poster

Sponsored by
Intertribal Friendship House and the Native American Health Center

Starting September 13 ...
NVC Diversity Speaker Series

"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival." 
~ René Dubos

There is quite a buzz on the Napa Valley College campus regarding this speaker series. This is something that has been much needed in Napa and elsewhere. There are a lot of people excited for it. Feel free to print the flier, post it online, or do what you wish with it.  Feel free to contact NVC Student Body President Alex Shantz if you have any questions. The series starts on Sept. 13.

Details here - download the poster

Remembering ...
15th Anniversary Pow Wow
"Honoring Sacred Sites"

July 24 & 25, 2010 - Pow Wow 2010 was a great success - see our archives pages.

Article in the Vallejo Times-Herald ...
PRESERVE & PROTECT OUR SACRED SITES

Tree-clearing, spraying upsets Native Americans

By Tony Burchyns, Vallejo Times-Herald
Posted: 11/11/2009 02:00:09 AM PST

The sound of chainsaws along the Glen Cove waterfront Tuesday meant progress or sacrilege, depending on who you asked.

As crews cleared three sickened eucalyptus trees, local descendants of Native Americans stood on a nearby path and passed out brochures to passing residents, protesting what they viewed as the desecration of a sacred place. [more]

Glen Cove
Sacred Burial Site   

PRESERVE & PROTECT
OUR SACRED SITES!

RECENT ACTION
September 30, 2009
Join A Prayer Walk and Gathering to Protect the Ancestors at Glen Cove Sacred Site in Vallejo, CA

Co-sponsored by Vallejo Intertribal Council, SSP&RIT and the International Indian Treaty Council

Wednesday September 30th, we invite you to participate as we walk from the Greater Vallejo Recreation District to Glen Cove for a prayer gathering to honor the ancestors as we seek protection for this area which has burials and sacred items dating back to 1,500 B.C

WHAT: Prayer walk and Gathering to honor the ancestors
and pray for the protection of Glen Cove Sacred Site and all Sacred Sites

WHEN: Wednesday Sept. 30th, 11 AM

WHERE: Greater Vallejo Recreation District; 395 Amador St, Vallejo, CA
to Glen Cove Sacred Site

We will walk 3.8 miles to the Glen Cove sacred site where a prayer gathering will be held.

Historically Glen Cove has been a traditional meeting place where services such as burials were performed for over one hundred local California Indian tribes. The sacred cove contains human remains, shell mounds, and other artifacts. Glen Cove continues to be a spiritually important area to the local Native Communities. The site was first documented in archaeological records in 1907 by an archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley and, according to a 1988 report by Novato Archaeological Resource Service, is at least 3,500 years old. Many of the sacred items unearthed from the site in previous years remain illegally housed in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley which houses over 13,000 ancestral remains and over 200,000 sacred objects.

Proposed development - The Greater Vallejo Recreation District (GVRD) and the City of Vallejo are currently proposing to develop a park with trails and amendments that would desecrate this site. Preserving and protecting this sacred place in the way those who created it meant it to be is a legal right under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and is an essential part of Indigenous cultural survival.

Speakers will urge the City of Vallejo and the GVRD to halt plans to develop and seek advice from the local Native Community about how to preserve this historic and sacred site. We are seeking support from local community members, and extending a special invitation to Religious and Spiritual Groups who are welcome to join in prayer with us as we walk for our ancestors.

Route info:
Here's a Google map to 395 Amador St., where the Walk begins
And here's a Google map to the Glen Cove Sacred Burial Site
Here is a downloadable Map & Directions to Glen Cove

For more information e-mail protectglencove@gmail.com or call Wounded Knee DeOcampo at (707) 557-2140.

Vehicle transport will be provided for those unable to walk the entire distance. We will enter Glen Cove from the foot of Whitesides Drive and S Regatta Drive.

Those unable to join the walk are welcome to join us with nourishment (healthy food and drinks/water) at our destination. Donations are appreciated.

September 30 Prayer Walk - article in the Vallejo Times-Herald
(Vallejo Times-Herald article from Sunday, Sept. 27)

The following is somewhat dated material, but good background...

SSP&RIT STATEMENT
on how to preserve & protect the Glen Cove Sacred Burial Site

TRUTH about our Sacred Burial Ground
(don't believe everything you hear about Glen Cove!)