Creative Work

Petaluma, a thriving community of at least 500 individuals, was a major village of the Lekatuit Nation, whose territory included Petaluma Valley and extended north and west to Potaawa · yowa, or Chalk Ground, another large Lekatuit village, once located near the present town of Freestone.

A slow, careful burn insulated Kule Loklo against a fearsome wildfire.

Her name was Maria, which was what the priest at St. Rose Church called all of the Indian girls, even this girl Maria Evangeliste, who ironed his vestments and each Sunday played the violin so beautifully as the communicants marched to the altar to receive the sacraments that Jesus was said to smile down from the rafters at the dispensation of his body and blood.

A relative told me that when she saw Tom’s Smith’s charmstone, she was temporarily blinded and felt instantly faint-its power was that overwhelming. The charmstone, an oblong, smoothly carved rock figure, about an inch and a half in length, was loosed from Tom Smith’s “doctoring kit,” which had been stored in a drawer at UC Berkeley’s Lowie Museum for decades following his death in 1934.

In discovering his own identity, Greg Sarris helped a scattered Indian tribe reassert theirs.

A slow, careful burn insulated Kule Loklo against a fearsome wildfire.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia. Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia.