Students learn about Native American culture at Yucaipa event
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Madison Hart (via Press Enterprise)
Students gathered Thursday, Nov. 9, at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa to learn about basketry, ecology and music. They even got lessons in the Serrano Indian language.
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, teaches a class about his tribe Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, to students from Sacred Heart Academy in Redlands at Crafton Hills College. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, left, is seen Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, with his son, James Ramos Jr., and Trevor Mathews from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. During an event at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, they sang songs to a class from Sacred Heart Academy in Redlands. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, his son James Ramos Jr., and Trevor Mathews from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians teach a class to students from Sacred Heart Academy in Redlands at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Children from Morongo School take part on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in a language-learning play, pretending to be various animals at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Nathan Majewski, a linguistics educator for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, teaches a class on the Cahuilla language to Morongo School children at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Children from Morongo School raise their hands Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, during a language-learning segment of California’s First Cultures: A Celebration, held at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Children from Morongo School take part Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in a language-learning play, pretending to be various animals at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Rosanna Hamilton, from the Cahuilla tribe, talks to students about traditional basket weaving at California’s First Cultures: A Celebration, held at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Students from Morongo School listen Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, to educators during the language-learning segment of California’s First Cultures: A Celebration, held at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, performs for a class from Sacred Heart Academy in Redlands at California’s First Cultures: A Celebration, held at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Members of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians reenact for students a look at past traditions during California’s First Cultures: A Celebration, held at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, sings songs to a class from Sacred Heart Academy in Redlands on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, during California’s First Cultures: A Celebration, held at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, sings songs and plays instruments from the tribe with students Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
The activities marked Native American Heritage Month by joining students with Native American cultural educators. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians sponsored the event, called California’s First Cultures: A Celebration.
It was part of the Waa’t Celebration and included elementary school students from Redlands, Calimesa, Banning and Yucaipa.
Assemblymember James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, San Manuel’s tribal unity and cultural awareness coordinator, said Wednesday, Nov. 8, that education is a way to dispel myths and misconceptions that some may have about Native Americans.
In the Serrano language, “Waa’t” means juniper, which relates to the Juniper trees in the Crafton Hills area of Yucaipa.
“It’s all the more meaningful to be here in a city named for the Serrano village of Yukaipa’t and during November, which is National Native American Heritage month,” Ramos said. “This event honors our elders and ancestors for their resiliency through history.”
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