News From Native California - Summer 2016 Volume 29, Issue 4 | Page 4

contributors
Stephen Meadows is a Californian of
pioneer and Ohlone Indian descent.
He earned degrees from San Francisco
State University and UC Santa Cruz,
where he worked under National
Book Award winner Lucille Clifton.
His poems have appeared in anthologies and journals nationwide, and
one graces a bronze plaque in San
Francisco.

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Language, p. 3

Dorothy Ramon Learning Center
and its publishing arm, Ushkana
Press, are a nonprofit, 501(c)(3)
public-benefit corporation that was
founded by Ernest Siva (Serrano/
Cahuilla). They save and share the
cultures, languages, history, music,
and other traditional arts of Southern
California’s American Indians.
In Our Languages, p. 4

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Holli Jackson (Modoc; member of the
Klamath Tribes) is a writer, photographer, and videographer. He is supporting these habits by working as a
medical social worker on the Northern
California coast. He and his partner,
Lorraine Taggart (Yurok), enjoy working together to support their interest
in Native issues.
Bringing Culture to Life, p. 5

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Terria Smith (Torres Martinez Desert
Cahuilla) is the editor of News from
Native California and runs Native
California events and publishing at
Heyday.
Kenneth Ramos: An Interview with a True
“Urban Rez” Guy, p. 8

Vincent Medina (Chochenyo Ohlone)
is a member of the News staff, as
well as an assistant curator at the
Mission Dolores in San Francisco and
a board member for the Advocates
for Indigenous California Language
Survival. You’re Healing the Earth at the
Same Time, p. 16

Bonnie Lockhart (Sherwood Valley
Band of Pomo Indians) is an artist and
social welfare graduate student at UC
Berkeley with focus on community
empowerment and intergenerational
healing. Medicine Carriers, p 21
Ishmael Elias is an enrolled citizen
of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
He is an active member of the Native
American Journalism Association
(NAJA). He holds an M.F.A. in English
from Mills College, a B.A. in Journalism from The Ohio State University,
and a B.A. in Spanish from Wright
State University. He currently resides
in Dublin, California, and works as
a legal writer and human resources
consultant.
Reviews: El Capitan p. 35;
The Doctrine of Discovery, p. 38

Tony Platt is Distinguished Affiliated
Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the
Study of Law and Society and author
of Grave Matters: Excavating California’s Buried Past (Heyday 2011).
Review: An American Genocide, p. 36

Lindsie Bear is the former editor
of News from Native California and
the current director of nature and
environmental publishing at Heyday.
Something Inside is Broken, p. 40;
With Respect, p. 60

Calvin Hedrick (Mountain Maidu)
attended Humboldt State University,
where he was a member of the Indian
Teacher and Education Personnel
Program and received a B.A. in
Native American Studies with a minor
in American Indian Education, and
pursued an M.A in American Indian
Studies at UCLA. He has developed
curriculum to help Indian youth and
tribal communities focus on culture
and avoid drugs and alcohol.
Returning the Warrior Spirit, p. 49

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