|
"The development of theories by Indigenous scholars has only just begun."
(Linda Tuhiwai Smith)
Upcoming EventsNovember 8-11, 2013: National Women’s Studies Association (Oakland, CA) Why We Dance: The Hupa Women’s Flower Dance Ceremony – Decolonization In Praxis
August 7, 2012: Ecological Society of America Annual Conference (Portland, OR) Why We Gather: The ecology of traditional gathering in Native California and the future of bio-cultural sovereignty May 21, 2012: Advisory Group Meeting (Davis, CA) The Uneasy Remains Film Project - Film Advisory Group Meeting April 27, 2012: Interdisciplinary Graduate & Professional Student Symposium (Davis, CA) Xoc-itch'iswhalte (They will beat time with sticks over her): The Revitalization of the Hupa Women's Flower Dance Ceremony |
Latest News
WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE PROTESTS, DEMANDS FOREST SERVICE STOP HARASSMENT AT COMING OF AGE CEREMONIES: Marine Sisk’s Coming of Age ceremony in 2006 was the Winnemem Wintu’s first since 1924, and they are not alone in bringing it back: flower dances and other puberty ceremonies have enjoyed a resurgence among Northern California tribes over the past 10 years, said Cutcha Risling Baldy, a doctoral student at the University of California, Davis who is studying the ceremonies.“Bringing back these ceremonies seem to be an important part of these communities’ healing from all the past atrocities and the genocide,” said Risling Baldy, who is a Hoopa Valley tribal member. “In indigenous societies, women were important to their strength and balance, and the ceremonies are restoring that. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.
    |
About Me
Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Karuk, Yurok) is a PhD Graduate Student in
Native American Studies at the University of California - Davis and a
Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow. She has her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and her B.A. in Psychology with a special focus in Health and Development from Stanford University. She is a current board member for the Chancellor's Graduate Student and Professional Advisory Board, the UC Davis Affirmative Action and Diversity Committee, and the Chancellors 2020 Initiative: Enrollment Management Committee. She is also a Graduate Student Representative for the Native American Studies Graduate Student Association and the Project Coordinator for the "Uneasy Remains" Film Project. She is also the Executive Director for the Native Women's Collective and previously worked as a nonprofit and tribal consultant specializing in board/ staff training, grant writing, fundraising and evaluation.
Ms. Risling Baldy is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe with ties to the Karuk and Yurok peoples. Her research is primarily focused on Native American Literature; Native American Women; Native American Arts & Culture; Native American Religion & Spirituality; Feminist Theory; Indigenous Methodologies, Epistemologies & Knowledge; California Indian History & Peoples; and Native American Politics & Contemporary Society. For a full bio click here. |
|
