Helping Native communities create new speakers
Georgiana Trull passed away on Oct. 16, 2008 at the age of 92. She was born in Sregon Village, on the Yurok Reservation to Melissa and Charlie Myers. Georgiana went to school at Pecwan, Morek, Hoopa, and Riverside Boarding School. She was a welder in …
April 11, 2008 – Aaawok Aileen Figueroa – a long time resident of Westhaven and descendent of the village of Saa-athl, along the Klamath River, passed away peacefully in her home at the age of 95 from complications of pneumonia. Her family was by her …
Junie Donahue, Karuk Master speaker recently passed away January 12, 2008. Our thoughts are with his apprentice and his family. Tanu pikyar.
In memory of Mono master speaker, Ed Bowman, who passed away on December 6th, 2007, our gratitude for sharing so much. Ed will be missed by all, but especially his apprentice Don Jack.
Auntie Vi passed away in her sleep as a result of a fire that destroyed her home on the evening of November 29, 2006 in Orleans California. She was born on her families Indian Allotment known as “Butlers Flat” on the Salmon River in Siskiyou …