November is Native American Heritage Month (NAHM). Also known as American Indian Heritage Month and American and Alaskan Heritage Month, NAHM celebrates the histories, cultures, and contributions of Native American communities.
November
In collaboration with the Center for Student Involvement, The Drive 'N Movies Canned Food Drive is a drive where we collect canned good for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. the give to the American Indian community during their Annual Thanksgiving Dinner on November 8. This Drive is coordinated to celebrate American Indian Heritage Month.
All Cal State LA students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome to participate.
- October 23 - November 9, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
- Center for Engagement, Service, and the Public Good office and Center for Student Involvement office
- Presented by EPIC - Center for Engagement, Service, and the Public Good
- November 1, 12:30 - 3:00 PM
- Library Community Room, Library North B131
- Presented by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Latin American Studies, Instructionally Related Activities, and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we welcome all our relatives, communities, and allies to join this conversation of advocacy and solidarity. Acknowledging Indigenous voices creates support for Native peoples in their academic journey and beyond.
All Cal State LA students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as community members are welcome to participate.
- November 4, Noon - 1:30 PM and November 8, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
- Library Community Room, Library North B131
- Presented by the American Indian & Indigenous Student Alliance, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the University Library.
Native American Listening Circles Flyer
Cal State LA Gives Back is a one-day service event coordinated by the Center for Engagement, Service, and the Public Good. This service day was created as a way to involve the campus community in community engagement. Cal State LA Gives Back is an event hosted every semester in which students are invited to participate in a day of service at a local non-profit community organization.
The Cal State LA Gives Back service day event with the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. involves providing support to the organization's Annual Giving Day of Service and Dinner. Volunteers will assist with preparing food boxes; serve as ushers, food servers/runners, and parking attendants; passing out the food boxes to the families when they leave. The UAII event is coordinated annually to provide resources to the American Indian community.
All Cal State LA students, faculty, staff, and alumni are welcome to participate.
- November 8, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
- United American Indian Involvement, Inc. - 1453 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026 – transportation will be provided to and from the site
- Sign Up to Volunteer
- Presented by EPIC - Center for Engagement, Service, and the Public Good
CAPS will have a posterboard on display at the Cross Cultural Centers that shares information about the Tongva people as well as mental health facts related to Native Americans. Campus community members are also welcome to write on the posterboard if they would like to contribute their own knowledge of the Tongva or other Indigenous peoples. Our hope is to provide a space for the Cal State LA community to honor and acknowledge the ancestral land of the Tongva and other Indigenous peoples.
All Cal State LA students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as community members are welcome to participate.
- November 14 - 30
- Cross Cultural Centers
- Presented by the Student Health Center (SHC) - Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation in California; she has Santa Ynez Chumash, English and French lineage. In addition to Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, she is the author of four poetry collections (Indian Cartography, The Zen of La Llorona, Raised by Humans, and Altar for Broken Things), and co-editor of the Lambda finalist Sovereign Erotics: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Literature. Deborah’s current project is a collection of essays examining gender and survivance in California missions, based on the stories of Isabel Meadows, an Indigenous storyteller born in1846, who left behind extensive documentation of Indigenous cultures and histories in and around Carmel Mission. She recently completed a poetry collection titled maxana chempapisi: Blood Writing, in which each poem explores the depth of meaning in individual Esselen words or phrases, and is working on a “coffee-table” book about the missions told from an Indigenous perspective, tentatively titled When Missions Walls Talk, which deconstructs the glossy coffee table books sold in mission gift shops that function as genocidal propaganda against the lives of California Indians. Currently, Deborah and wife Margo Solod live in Eugene, Oregon.
All Cal State LA students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as community members are welcome to participate. The event also includes a book raffle sponsored by the University Library!
- November 16, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
- In-person at University Student Union, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles Room & Online via Zoom webinar
- Public access hybrid event recorded with ASL & CART
- Presented by Dr. Pau Abustan, Dr. Jessica Gutierrez Masini, and the WGSS Club. Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Cross Cultural Centers, the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities, and the University Library.
Chasing Tailfeathers is a comedy, loosely based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. See what happens when the world of the pow wow trail and the world of Shakespeare come together. See how all human beings, regardless of time, place, culture, and language, must deal with the darkness within and the ramifications of our bad decision-making.
Written by Dr. Carolyn Dunn. Directed by Katie Rich, a guest artist and literary manager from Native Voices at the Autry Museum of the American West.
All Cal State LA students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as community members are welcome to attend.
- November 29, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
- State Playhouse
Presented by Carolyn Dunn and the Theatre and Dance Department
More details to follow.