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State Capitol celebrates Native American Day; City Theatre takes part in traditional cultural event

Dave Toler (left), a San Pasqual reservation counselor talks with Bill Gollnick, a tribal administrator for the Tejon tribe, at the 2016 Native American Day event. Behind them, flags of California tribes placed on the west steps of the State Capitol. Sept. 23, 2016. Corey Browning | Staff Photographer | coreybrowningexpress@gmail.com
Dave Toler (left), a San Pasqual reservation counselor talks with Bill Gollnick, a tribal administrator for the Tejon tribe, at the 2016 Native American Day event. Behind them, flags of California tribes placed on the west steps of the State Capitol. Sept. 23, 2016. Corey Browning | Staff Photographer | [email protected]

The California State Capitol celebrated California Native American Day Sept. 23, the same day City College hosted a play about Sacramento’s Nisenan tribe.

City College City Theatre staged a performance of “Something Inside is Broken: A Native American Rock Opera”, a play that tells the grim, unspoken history of the Nisenan tribe during John Sutter’s reign in 1846 in Sacramento Valley to recognize Native American Day.

“City College is one of the most ethnically diverse campuses in Northern California. It’s also the largest theater closest to the Capitol,” said Jack Kohler, director, writer and composer of the rock opera.

The 49th annual event at the State Capitol included performances from various tribes from northern California, as well as vendors selling traditional Native American food. Wares and booths representing nonprofits and government agencies offered information catered toward Native Americans.

The celebration  on the West Steps of the Capitol focused on education, according to Brittani Orona, a member of the Hoopa Valley tribe and co-chair of the 2016 Native American Day planning committee.

“Education is pretty central to what tribes want to see for their youth”, said Mary Trimble Norris, executive director of the American Indian Child Resource Center in Oakland.

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“A lot of tribes are here,” Norris said. “They’re doing a grand entry and each California reservation has a flag and has a tribal member representative bringing in the flag.”

Besides providing lively entertainment in the form of dancing and live music, the event also serves to educate the community about Native American culture in California.

“I think it’s important to educate people about Native American culture here in California, it’s a really meaningful event for a lot of our tribal sponsors and our tribal affiliates, governments and leaders,” said Orona. “Native American tribes’ and culture is still around.”

“We’re really focusing on traditional cultural education in Native American communities,” said Orona. “We’re working with state partners to highlight that theme.”

In previous years, the event focused on water, according to Esther Tracey, a representative from the California water board.

“The last couple years had been water because of the drought,” said Orona.

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