News From Native California - Spring 2016 Volume 29 Issue 3 | Page 4

contributors
Bonnie Lockhart (Sherwood Valley
Band of Pomo Indians) is an artist
and social welfare graduate student at
UC Berkeley with a focus on community
empowerment and intergenerational
healing.
PRIDE, p.5

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Vincent Medina (Chochenyo Ohlone)
is a member of the News staff, an
assistant curator at Mission Dolores
in San Francisco, and a board member
for the Advocates for Indigenous
California Language Survival.

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Alicia Adams (Maidu/Chemehuevi)
has worked in restaurants for more
than twenty-five years. She combines
traditional foods with a modern flare
in her own catering business, Indigenous Taste, where her staples are
sumi (deer meat), mushrooms, and,
of course, acorns.

How We Met, p. 6
Big Times/Little Times, p. 40

Lindsie Bear (Cherokee) is the former
editor of News From Native California
and the current director of nature
and environmental publishing at
Heyday.

Vikki Preston (Karuk/Yurok/Paiute/
Pit River) grew up in Orleans. She has
a B.A. in Native American Studies
from UC Berkeley and currently works
for the Karuk Tribe.

How I Met My Sweetheart, Lyn Risling p. 10

Beauty at Home, p.22

Linda Yamane (Rumsen Ohlone) is
an artist, author, basketweaver, and
culture bearer who lives in Monterey.

Gordon Johnson (Cahuilla/Cupeño)
is a journalist from the Pala Reservation in San Diego County and author
of the books Fast Cars and Frybread
and Rez Dogs Eat Beans.

Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone)
is an undergraduate student at the
University of California–Berkeley,
studying political science and
linguistics. He intends to pursue a
graduate program in linguistics in
order to produce a comprehensive
grammar of the Rumsen language,
to further its reclamation and
revitalization.
Omesia Said, p. 15

Meagan Baldy (Hupa) is married with
four children; her life’s passion is to
promote food sustainability in the
Hoopa community. She manages the
community garden, teaches people
how to cook local foods, and, as a
Master Food Preserver, teaches the
techniques of food preservation.
Cooking Healthy in Indian Country is
a project of the Hoopa Valley Tribe

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Fall in Love with Fungi, p. 19

Seared Sumi Backstrap with Manzanita and
Blackberry Sauce, p. 20
Watercress, NDN Lettuce, and Clover Salad,
p. 21

I Carry Her With Me, p. 14

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that helps educate Native people on
prepping and cooking food.

Indian Love, p. 28

Bryn Barabas Potter works as BBP
Museum Consulting and is the adjunct
curator of basketry at the Riverside
Metropolitan Museum. She enjoys
learning about baskets, working with
weavers, curating exhibits, and writing.
Reviews: Ethnobotany Project and Indian
Baskets of Northern California and Oregon,
p. 30

Ruth Nolan, M.F.A., M.A., is Professor
of English, Creative Writing and
Native American Literature at College
of the Desert in Palm Desert. She
is editor of No Place for a Puritan:
the Literature of California’s Deserts
(Heyday, 2009), and writes and blogs
about desert culture and life for KCET
Artbound Los Angeles, the Sierra
Club Desert Report, Inlandia Literary
Journeys, and many more publications.