News From Native California - Summer 2015 Volume 28 Issue 4 | Page 2

editor’s notes news from native california PUBLISHER: Malcolm Margolin Malcolm Margolin, David W. Peri, Vera Mae Fredrickson FOUNDERS: EDITOR: Lindsie Bear CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Tiffany Adams, Dugan Aguilar, Brian Bibby, Marina Drummer, Margaret Dubin, L. Frank, Jeannine Gendar, Leanne Hinton, Julian Lang, Frank LaPena, Vincent Medina, Beverly R. Ortiz, Sage Romero, Terria Smith, Paula Tripp-Allen, Linda Yamane OUTREACH COORDINATOR: Vincent Medina GRAPHIC DESIGN: Tima Link PROOFREADING: Kim Hogeland PRINTING: Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, KS NEWS FROM NATIVE CALIFORNIA Volume 28, Number 4, Summer 2015 (ISSN 10405437) is published quarterly for $22.50 per year by Heyday, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational corporation, located at 1633 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703. Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone] Mail Address: Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709. Periodical postage paid at Berkeley, CA and additional mailing offices. Internet address: www.newsfromnativecalifornia.com [email protected] Subscription rates $22.50 per year. Single copies $5.95. Foreign rates $42.50 per year. Copyright © 2015 by News from Native California except where otherwise noted. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use, without written permission, of editorial or pictorial content in any manner is prohibited. Opinions expressed in articles and columns are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. Printed on 10% post consumer waste recycled paper. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to News happy summer, friends! Have you been out gathering? Gearing up for fishing? On the road for ceremonies and dances this season? We hope you’ve been safe in your travels. We have an abundance of changes here at News that we’ve been gathering up to share with you. First, this issue is designed by Chumash weaver, culture bearer, and designer extraordinaire Tima Link. You’ve probably seen Tima’s award-winning baskets in the magazine and now you get to be immersed in a whole issue that she has created for us. Not only is Tima wonderfully skilled, but working with her has been a ray of sunlight in our lives. We’re so grateful for her. And as many of you have already heard, we’re hiring a new editor for News. I’m going to be taking on the nature publishing at Heyday and bringing the lessons I’ve learned at News about traditional ecological knowledge, community, and caring for our plant and animal relatives with me. Thanks for all the kind words about my moving jobs. I don’t have words to tell you how much I’ve learned over these past three years. You have all taken care of me, taught me, made me laugh until my cheeks hurt, and made me cry tears of joy and healing. In many ways, you put me on a path. For the past three years, I have sat in our booth at the Black Oak Market, next to Vivian Snyder (Yurok), and we’ve spent a good part of the afternoon talking about life. Last year she looked me in the eyes and told me that our job as people is to fix the earth. I’d heard the phrase before, but that day something clicked inside and I felt like she was speaking directly to me. I knew that I needed find a way to use what I knew of publishing to work toward getting us back into balance with the world around us. You all have strong voices about how we should treat the land we live on and the water that sustains us. I want to help those voices be heard. So, nature publishing calls. And Malcolm and Heyday have made a space for me to do that in our Berkeley offices, for which I’m so thankful. Vince and I will still be around. We’ll still have the same (usually broken) phone lines. I’ll still carry boxes of books to events and you can contact us anytime you like. My email is still [email protected]. We’ve been interviewing candidates this month and they have all been smart, strong, kind, thoughtful people. Soon we hope to add a wonderful new person with deep ties to California Native communities to the News staff to steer the canoe. The magazine has been growing, with special issues, a blog, new writers, more events, and social media sites. This issue we got to profile some stunning artists, in large part because you all let us know that you’d like to see more art. We still want to grow with you, just like News has for the past twenty-eight years, and to have our community of readers continue to shape the magazine. And we’re pretty thrilled to see what great ideas, new ways of listening, and fresh ways of seeing the next editor will bring. You have all been a great gift in my life. —Lindsie Bear, Editor from Native California, Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709. USPS 002704 NNC_cover_tl_03.indd 2 ON THE COVER: Rick Bartow (Wiyot) in his drawing studio in Newport, Oregon. Photo by Sabine Poole for the the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon. BACK COVER: Rick Bartow, From Nothing Coyote Creates Himself, 2004. Wood and metal, 41 x 84 x 16 in. © Rick Bartow; photo courtesy of the artist and Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon. 9/21/15 12:58 PM