https://chirpca.org/blog daily 0.75 2025-05-16 https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/5/18/an-awakening-corridor monthly 0.5 2025-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/c83f7b04-425f-4599-bc56-834d9039ce3e/Screenshot+2025-05-14+at+11.02.28%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - An Awakening Corridor - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/d49fd8d4-a597-422b-b97a-ec9bcc30f71c/Screenshot+2025-05-14+at+11.02.47%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - An Awakening Corridor - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/7128a61c-f6ee-4541-a93f-453d4141e1d3/Screenshot+2025-05-15+at+2.49.03%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Blog Reflections - An Awakening Corridor - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/5/16/seasonal-cards-honoring-nature-nisenan-wisdom monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747427201480-WO83YVU495WLKCBIWUDZ/Fall+Day.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747427201973-SL1IL929BVQA0ZFXQ8MZ/Spring+Day.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747427212640-OI7GH8LWXTKF5M4VIVEB/Summer+Day.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747427213494-MJNBDCZKMBLW16SM31WV/winter+day.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747437640703-P359C932HCVSJF777COD/Fall+night.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747437641577-DVBC8GSX6QHYSIVGXL2K/Spring+night.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747437653157-N1YXT3FO66OFDKEMPTUU/Summer+night.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1747437653450-V6O7837B7VJF60NUWWGS/Winter+Night.png Blog Reflections - Seasonal Cards: honoring Nature + Nisenan Wisdom https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/4/22/behind-the-trail monthly 0.5 2025-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/d159e7dc-4511-4af7-83a2-6270a5271527/Screenshot+2025-04-11+at+3.53.30%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Blog Reflections - Behind the Trail - Make it stand out A segment of the newly opened trail expansion along NCRC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/0fbbd0c3-b853-4229-94e1-24614e95c90f/Deer+Creek+1930 Blog Reflections - Behind the Trail - Make it stand out Deer Creek, 1930. 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Photo by Laura Carroll https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/3/27/see-whats-blooming monthly 0.5 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/c115610d-55e8-4600-8b7c-c0f74cae1e63/Screenshot%252B2025-03-27%252Bat%252B11.33.23%2525E2%252580%2525AFAM.jpg Blog Reflections - See What’s Blooming - Make it stand out Representatives from CHIRP, The Sierra Fund, and the Bear Yuba Land Trust gathered at the new trail segment for a ceremonial ribbon cutting and official opening. Photo by Laura Carroll https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/d9800d3d-802b-4e6c-b734-858ebe1e2815/Screenshot%252B2025-03-27%252Bat%252B11.39.38%2525E2%252580%2525AFAM.jpg Blog Reflections - See What’s Blooming - Make it stand out Interpretive signage along the newly opened trail segment of the Nisenan Cultural Reclamation Corridor at Angkula Seo (Deer Creek) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/6d6c0d63-880d-4b6a-bdae-0c706c9c1031/Screenshot+2025-04-03+at+5.48.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog Reflections - See What’s Blooming - Make it stand out Currently featuring jewelry made by NCR Tribal Artist Heidi Noel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/98e9bee9-1af3-4693-8149-c24732329350/yulica%2Btree%2B.jpg Blog Reflections - See What’s Blooming - Make it stand out NCR Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson and CHIRP Executive Director Shelly Covert visits with an Oak https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/3/14/spring-at-yulia monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/4d12e38b-a883-4dbd-8f46-8894caf41b89/yulica+stained+glass+workshop.jpg Blog Reflections - Spring at Yulića - Make it stand out Tribal Members kicked off 2025 with a two-day stained glass workshop at Yulića, in our new dedicated arts space on recently acquired Tribal land! Guided by local stained glass legends Rachel and Kilani of @flux.flow.glass, participants designed and crafted their own pieces, which will be showcased in ‘Uba Seo’s fall exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/3772212d-f43c-4142-ae2e-ba7cab2fa480/Screenshot+2025-03-07+at+9.12.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog Reflections - Spring at Yulića - Make it stand out Tribal Members took part in a hands-on sewing workshop at ‘Uba Seo in 2024, led by master tailor Andrew Bosher. Participants expanded their creative skill sets, mastering simple clothing repairs and crafting Hacky Sacks - a modern adaptation that draws inspiration from ancient Native American games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/ae25cbde-b6f5-49cc-a190-df90dce93091/Screenshot+2025-03-14+at+11.04.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Spring at Yulića - Make it stand out Tribal Members explored the art of glassblowing in a 2024 workshop with local artist Bishop Randall in his studio. Participants learned the art of glassblowing, crafting unique arrowhead pendants and marbles. 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Photo by Mira Clark https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/3/6/honoring-ginger monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/cc606a13-2e97-4248-a38d-8aa70f6f5618/UbaSeo_Maile_Claire_Covert_Portrait_0220.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Make it stand out "Imaginal Portrait of Ginger Covert" by Maile Claire, Part of “The Story of Land, Water, and People” Exhibit at ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan Arts and Culture, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741286299180-Z1N0YWKNT3HN27SJ70IR/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.30.18%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Ginger Covert and Shelly Covert Ginger, with daughter Shelly, stand in front of the Solim Ni Mural in downtown Grass Valley. Photo by Nikila Badua https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741284935917-L848YHPPVQP8A5OOEASF/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.08.16%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Remembering Acorn Tribal Elder Ginger Covert created a project and presentation around the Native acorn resource. “Our Culture and Traditional lifeways require an understanding of - and access to - natural resources, such as the acorn, when those traditions become disrupted, so too does our Culture.” From “The Story of Land, Water, and People” , ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan Art & Culture 2024 exhibit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741286426189-2UC6R96KV99OR3AQV5R6/shelly%2Bginger.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - We Are the Land, by Mira Clark “This piece is about Shelly and Ginger's deep connection with the landscape of their Ancestral Homelands. Their reverence for this land is tangible. Their care and love for the flora and fauna of the Sierra Foothills is a part of their Cultural traditions and something Settlers on these lands can learn from.” Watercolor on Paper. www.existinspired.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741285270168-33M5VFZFV1AZRRHM9CTC/1375960_10205342581783220_3716485399730145752_n.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Tribal Members at the Nisenan Cultural Reclamation Corridor Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members ceremonially opening the Nisenan Tribute Bridge at Angkula Seo (Deer Creek) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741284942594-QDD1G1864L3GW1AI991X/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.11.31%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - "Alone" by Ginger Covert Alone by Ginger Covert “He is missing his freedom. Often wolves were part of the Nisenan family unit, and close companions, helping with hunting and securing food. Many of my relatives included wolves as part of their family.” Part of the 2022 Visibility Through Art Exhibit, “Perspectives on Erasure” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741284942172-V1QTBJ7S1CM9YI8WV98Y/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.09.33%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Tribal Council Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Council Members, 2023 Left to right: Saxon Thomas, Sarah Thomas, Lorena Davis , Ginger Covert Vice-Chairwoman, Richard Johnson Chariman, Shelly Covert Secretary and Spokesperson, Photograph Courtesy of Sean Leydon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741284931976-ELU6S4ZUD5L8CS0MVBUE/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.08.44%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Painting With Oak Gall Ink Instructor Artist: Jennifer Rain Crosby Artworks by Tribal Members: Ginger Covert, Shelly Covert, Lorena Davis, Sarah Thomas, Cindy Buero, Debra McBrien, Saxon Thomas Artist Jennifer Rain Crosby led a group of Tribal Members in a class on how to create Oak Gall Ink and paint with it. Oak Galls are made of plant tissue and form when an insect (typically a wasp) secretes a chemical that causes interference with normal plant cell growth. This was an enriching way for the Tribe to paint with their native environment. Part of “The Story of Land, Water, and People” exhibit at ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan Art & Culture, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741285270129-0NI6Y27793YTCH4KBW1V/jenC_TribalmembersVTA%2B2022.2.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Virginia Covert at humukum: Whispers Through Time Virginia “Ginger” Covert at the opening night of hamukum: Whispers Through Time, the 2023 Visibility Through Art exhibit at ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan Arts & Culture She stands near "Return" by artist Jennifer Rain Crosby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741284951899-A103M9IQO3OP20R5R5ZJ/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.10.44%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - I Still Live Here “I Still Live Here” by artist Jenny Hale, in collaboration with NCR Tribal Vice-Chairperson Ginger Rose Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741285355423-M4ZSA798PL2UCDLTT8NX/Tribe+on+bridge.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Tribal Members at the Nisenan Cultural Reclamation Corridor Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members ceremonially opening the Nisenan Tribute Bridge at Angkula Seo (Deer Creek) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741286291454-E52QWG4A2DPQE2ET0IPG/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.25.51%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Ginger and Shelly Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741284949973-GMRNKY1ORZMZGH6D0RJG/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+10.11.00%E2%80%AFAM.png Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - The Earth Abides “The Earth Abides” by artist Jenny Hale, in collaboration with NCR Tribal Vice-Chairperson Ginger Rose Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741285334845-IQBWPT9Y9MP6WRFKIUCO/Virginia+Covert+headshot.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Virginia "Ginger" Covert Ginger Covert walking at the Nisenan Cultural Reclamation Corridor at Angkula Seo (Deer Creek) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1741286426189-2UC6R96KV99OR3AQV5R6/shelly%2Bginger.jpg Blog Reflections - Honoring Ginger - Make it stand out Mother Earth by Mira Clark, inspired by Ginger Covert’s poem of the same name https://chirpca.org/blog/2025/1/30/reflecting-on-2024 monthly 0.5 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/52c3f0f6-3f6c-4638-8539-c704f87d168b/yulica+tree+.jpg Blog Reflections - Reflecting on 2024 - Make it stand out Tribal Spokesperson, Shelly Covert, at Yulića https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/4d12e38b-a883-4dbd-8f46-8894caf41b89/yulica+stained+glass+workshop.jpg Blog Reflections - Reflecting on 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/914a26d9-4a3b-4472-80ca-1e921e48aaf6/CHIRP_VTA24_34.jpg Blog Reflections - Reflecting on 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/76763141-22c6-45cf-91a2-c02241e33e74/tribe+members+at+yulica.jpg Blog Reflections - Reflecting on 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chirpca.org/blog/category/Tribal+Arts+Enrichment monthly 0.5 https://chirpca.org/blog/category/VTA monthly 0.5 https://chirpca.org/vip-exclusive-access daily 0.75 2020-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599880856420-V34EE3E56Y4H3J134S0N/IMG_6006.jpeg VIP - Exclusive Access https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598919087231-HLU498WKJRLDOARCEMKS/rememberingravens-milestoland-2019+copy.jpg VIP - Exclusive Access - Remembering & Ravens Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Miles Toland 2019 Art Reception milestoland.com Acrylic on Birch Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert The ravens in the painting symbolize the Nisenan who were tragically mistreated, displaced, and murdered during the greed and entitlement of the Gold Rush. Similarly, the ravens represent the animal kingdom that is currently being exploited, over hunted, under represented, and displaced by human lifestyle to the point of extinction. These stories are parallel and are still being written by our hands. How do we nurture the ravens who have broken free? How do we release the ones still captive? Moreover, this painting also speaks to the recent trip that Shelly Covert took to the Kunstkamera Museum in Saint Petersburg to visit a sacred Raven’s cloak and other artifacts that were taken by Russian explorers in the mid 1800’s. “Ravens are an important part of the old Nisenan stories. They struggle and adapt to the modern world as best they can and reflect to me the Tribe's struggle to survive in modern day America. Ravens mate for life and are family oriented. They are strong and smart and beautiful. Their memories are outstanding. I am honored to have had a couple of Ravens as friends in my life and understand why their feathers were so important in Traditional Feather Regalia. My obsession for this amazing being leads me back to my Nisenan roots and one day I will have my own Raven Feather Regalia to accompany me in dance and ceremony.” –Shelly Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598919109122-I1LEW0K5DEUMXFNT22XO/wheredowegofromhere-ruthchase-2018+copy.jpg VIP - Exclusive Access - Where Do We Go From Here Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Ruth Chase 2018 BELONGING Project RuthChase.com Acrylic on Canvas “Where Do We Go From Here" expresses the significance of the Nisenan to our community. How the American dream has played a roll in their development as a tribe externally and internally. ‘nisem humwa’a’ is Nisenan for: My family is from my heart or, my heart is drawn to my family (exact translation is difficult). An interpretation of a photo from 1967: Shelly Covert being held by Grandpa Ralph, her mother Ginger (Virginia) Lee Rose-Covert and her father. Created for Belonging, an arts initiative through Nevada County Arts Council and California Arts Council Grant Artist in Communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598919465488-PZVY45HR2DLPNLRF2PJ6/image-asset.jpeg VIP - Exclusive Access - Yuba Alive Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Andy Cerrona 2017 Collection Digital Sketch "Celebrating the life giving force of the Yuba, and the beautiful canyon that it feeds. Expressed through shapes and angles." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598918682018-4EFV6HLZ5XSMP9IH1CWY/image-asset.jpeg VIP - Exclusive Access - Tek Tek Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Mira Clark existinspired.com Acrylic on Canvas “Language is power. Language is the main conduit for culture, our languages connect us to our people, our landscapes, and to each other. We were told the Nisenan Language, ‘was an extinct language,’ but our Elders were still speaking, singing, and telling stories. We have worked to have the language reclassified as a ‘sleeping language,’ we are reclaiming our connections and participating in our culture. ‘Tek Tek’ is the Nisenan word for a red tailed hawk. Tek Tek watches everything and sees this happening and stands witness to the revival of our past, history and culture.” -Shelly Covert This piece honors the wildlife of this area and revitalizing the Nisenan Language. https://chirpca.org/visibility-through-art daily 0.75 2025-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599284914489-GL4VWWE2L8K2BR20SRRZ/IMG_6006.jpeg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074331970-TCQ4U33TK7ODWH583Q8A/AV2018.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728331558187-8LLLDUT06ATT07P5PE7D/CHIRP_VTA24_20.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/efa403b4-6b17-47c1-8401-d985e1c51c34/UbaSeo-31.jpeg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/60972efc-522d-453c-9160-b05b86d6f3d3/CHIRP_VTA24_5.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/f6947474-7ef6-498d-8acd-0e6a6c41e454/CHIRP_VTA24_34.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/54bc6b1b-f820-4a37-b23c-4eb2e6df5bc0/OpeningNight-VTA-2022.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/6326e171-763d-485e-87b1-64852fb393d1/jenC_TribalmembersVTA%2B2022.2.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/6e8b78e9-d1a5-42ce-9be0-c9c28e0fbbc0/CHIRP-VTA2021_Kit+Kohler+%281%29.jpeg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074261684-NKU2NBK6713O9P14GQ0A/2018.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728330465400-10ARK091N6VSR85HM0NR/ShellyC-VTA-openingtalks-2022.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074473701-VRP4SOBDNM10RK1F3CVE/IMG_1930.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074554859-NQQ3LHX1W3VUDGUOVFWA/IMG_9361-1.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074240142-6IHNN672PMECR3IEFIGW/NHD2017.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074381730-50Q941NPESA1RMERLYUT/1025191328g.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074534903-K4FN89686TJLXUF3AC1D/TMartclass.jpg Visibility Through Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/c63c43cb-f69d-4a2f-a6b2-cf274c988f18/7.png Visibility Through Art - ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan arts & Culture Perspectives on Erasure - 2022 VTA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1626465802393-8BK2BJF8R09QY5ZG1HZW/2021Exhibition.png Visibility Through Art - ‘Uba Seo: Nisenan arts & Culture Destruction of the Land | Destruction of the People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/999c46d8-411c-46db-8edb-6188bdb7bfae/Post+Card+VTA+2024.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599262064805-GFYREBEQVW3BH2CVGKHA/NevadaCityRancheria-circa1951-520x384.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/552c99fb-1640-4382-b181-dd11969161ca/estom+yanim+vta+2023.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/6bc72dd5-a767-4570-a23c-e771a3ba9e69/Unknown-1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/d242271a-66c3-434d-95fc-5199f1e22a2e/rememberingravens-milestoland-2019.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/913db430-b29f-468d-bc3d-ef9a3242f9f2/mountainlion-jenniferrugge-2019.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/adf8567c-f9b9-432c-ad86-332fca5b2069/Unknown-2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/417fdc41-e5bf-41f9-b2eb-0118b3f6d77f/Unknown.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1728074279124-DIW8M0CI4NCDPXIER9G7/w22018.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/8932c16a-2b23-4f23-96d7-4e6a80938bdd/rememberingravens-milestoland-2019%2Bcopy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/d443294a-3721-4b60-908e-fb274d3d70eb/tektek-miraclark-2018%2Bcopy.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/e1485d24-63fe-4189-8520-d81e4e477697/bear-jenniferrugge-2019.jpg https://chirpca.org/artist-index daily 0.75 2024-03-26 https://chirpca.org/visibility-through-art-2017 daily 0.75 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178394258-B485HUZAKTILK8BIK15U/evelyn-alexdita-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Four Generations: Evelyn Rose Artist: Alex Dita Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by darkroom process. Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599184730996-T9QO6QGEQVKXE1F2NFOT/sarahthomas-alexdita-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Four Generations: Sarah Thomas Artist: Alex Dita Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by the darkroom process. Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599185122254-41K7HIG884JWTDQMACFQ/saxonthomas-alexdita-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Four Generations: Saxon Thomas Artist: Alex Dita Medium: Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by the darkroom process Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599181723551-T4UE1Z5OSZLIQJO26MPT/nataleethomas-alexdita-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Four Generations: Natalee Thomas Artist: Alex Dita Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by the darkroom process Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178423652-5E3LPKEY2Q7F7O43T2RG/firstdeath-shellycovert-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - First Death Artist: Shelly Covert ~ Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council Spokesperson Acrylic on Canvas It is said that when the Nisenan people were first on the earth they were not meant to die a permanent death. But, as was his way, Coyote meddled. Coyote argued that those who died should stay dead; for if they weren’t dead, how could the people have a burn or a cry? After much insisting on Coyote’s part it was such that those who died would stay dead. Sadly for Coyote, it was his own son who would be the first to lose his life in an unfortunate fall. In his grief, Coyote demanded that the Creator bring his son back to life. After all, the fall had been an accident! But dead was dead and Coyote could only mourn for the loss of his son. Coyote’s character and moral compass are the center point for many of the Nisenan stories that involve him. In a great number of these stories, Coyote portrays who we don’t want to be; Coyote does what we shouldn’t do, and Coyote says the things that shouldn’t be said. In this painting, First Death, Coyote suffers the direct outcome of his meddling ways and loses his son in an unforeseen consequence of his own making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178487777-HW8VL94AEBCN45V8ZSQ3/invisible-ashelyforeman-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Invisible Artist: Ashely Foreman Acrylic on Canvas “Regalia: When dawning regalia, we are captured by our culture. We are enfolded into ancestral history thousands of years old. We may be physically separated from our Ancestors by great distances of time, but when we dance, sing, pray, we are transported to a place where time doesn’t exist. We share the songs and lives of the culture together as if mutually incarnated at that very moment; at every moment.” -Shelly Covert When I heard of the erasure of the Nisenan, a vision came to mind of a Tribal Member in full regalia, but with the person removed entirely. It was an image inspired by the erasure of their culture. It is meant to be metaphorical for the disappearance or invisibility that the Nisenan experience here in there Ancestral Homelands. The relics, artifacts, and evidence of their existence are still here, but the knowledge of their existence to non-Nisenan is minimal. They are still present, still alive… but often made invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599414868756-RKTSM6HFLLJCTI0VU40P/ritual-miraclark-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Ritual Artist: Mira Clark 24x36 Acrylic on Wood with Stones “The Nisenan people were a cremating society. Their ancient ritual of burning the dead dates back thousands of years and countless generations. Steeped in protocol and social design were the means to burn the departed and all their belongings, to cry and mourn their death, and to honor their remaining family members. Then, the spirit released, would travel to the sacred mountain where the first spirit food was eaten. Finally, the spirit would travel on to the Milky Way. After the Nisenan were forcibly removed and their lands taken from them, the colonizing settlers outlawed the burning of the deceased.” –Shelly Covert The small stones in this piece are from the Yuba River and represent the Nisenan's continued connection to this land. The word Yuba comes from the Nisenan "Uba" and is the only Nisenan word that remains on the landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183598805-3P7D6NG6DZSGN6WAVTZO/yubaalive-andycerrona-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Yuba Alive Artist: Andy Cerrona Digital Sketch Celebrating the life-giving force of the Yuba, and the beautiful canyon that it feeds. Expressed through shapes and angles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178433607-U2S0V8P73L8P2GQ9BCV2/hiddenvoices-jenniferrugge-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Hidden Voices Artist: Jennifer Rugge jenniferrugge.com 18 x 24” Papers, photos, gold leaf and oil on wood Inspiration for this painting comes from the stories told by Richard Johnson, author of History of Us. The acorns of the Live Oak were important to the Nisenan people for food. They replanted and grew orchards of oak trees to keep a good supply. Deer Creek was a source of water. The grasses and reeds were essential for weaving baskets. Everything changed quickly in the lives of the Nisenan with the Gold Rush in northern California. The Nisenan dwindled in numbers and their voices silenced at the hands of miners and government laws. Now the voices from the hidden past are heard once again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183269952-I3RPF5LDT8S8PDJ7SR23/richardjohnson-josedominguez-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Richard B. Johnson Artist: Jose Dominguez Colored Pencils on Paper Portrait of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Chairman Richard B. Johnson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183853704-8WM36WUQZY3U2HGQBA8E/motherwiththekey-andycerrona-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - Mother With The Key Artist: Andy Cerrona Medium: Digital Sketch This piece was sparked from a conversation with Shelly Covert about her experience of separation from place and earth that her Tribe experienced in the trauma of North American colonization. I strongly imagined that the earth felt this separation too, and even though it experiences loss it still holds the key for reuniting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183233614-RV1MRXLE5WZT2PHZZI7A/thematriarchwithherdaughters-alyssawalz-2017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2017 - The Matriarch With Her Daughters Artist: Alyssa Walz Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel on Paper “Pictured in this image are Carmel Rose Burrows and her eldest four daughters, Alberta ‘Birdie,’ Virginia ‘Ginger,’ Doris ‘Doedoe,’ and baby Lorena ‘Lori.’ The picture was taken in front of their new cabin in the “diggings.” While this photo looks like it could be a snapshot from the 1800s, it was actually taken in 1948, Native Americans lived then, and today, in disadvantaged communities and at a deficit in comparison to much of the rest of the country.” -Shelly Covert https://chirpca.org/visibility-through-art-2018 daily 0.75 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599196403194-PH6M05Z4MJ2KVA3YEJ7G/basket-lorilachman-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Basket Artist: Lori Lachman Photographs on Wood Heavy acorn mush strains the bottoms of baskets, this is a close up of Nisenan repair on one such basket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249525426-EYTPD1BS00DHAIA1AAZV/identity-jarodkane-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Identity Artist: Jarod Kane Acrylic on Wood Panel This piece is about identity, maintaining, and finding. I hope that it will help to maintain the culture and history of a community and land. I view this image as a fingerprint of the land and find that it shows both nature and human presence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249523632-YCVMECCG4LAN5EDILZTE/grindingstone-bishoprandall-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - 'eyi nik • pulu • baj (Grinding Stone) Artist: Bishop Randall Lampworked, sand carved glass First, there were the First People and the First People changed into trees, plants, rocks, rain, hail, and animals. And then Animals made Our People. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249488978-9V7JQ2XRYDQSK5ISY3Q5/babe-nikilabadua-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - “BABE” - Nisenan/Konkow Basket Weaver Artist: Nikila Badua Multimedia on wood. Ink and Graphite mixed with pigments sourced from local materials - rocks from the Yuba River and charcoal from burned oak. Bear and Yuba River watersheds are the homeland of our Honored Elder, Helen “Babe” Rose Echols. Babe lives in Dobbins, California, and at nearly 80 years of age, is one of the Tribe’s last basket weavers. Konkow on her mother’s side, her father, Dan Rose, was Nisenan, and a very important medicine man in the family. Babe is known for her beautiful, large open-weave baskets made from redbud. The Nisenan honor their baskets as living beings, said to each have its own spirit. Though basket weavings are some of the oldest recorded textiles found in the world’s history, carbon dated back to 12,000 years, it is difficult to preserve them, as their natural materials wear out with age, and return to the earth in a living-dying cycle of life. It is also said that these baskets should not necessarily be preserved behind glass, as they are living beings that should be utilized. But for all practical reasons of protecting this endangered way of life, you can find some of the last local traditional Nisenan baskets displayed in Nevada City’s Firehouse Museum, which Tribal members still come to visit and sing to them to honor their spirits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249529659-5HV1YPVXCLGBYUQ2ZZXE/istilllivehere-jennyhale-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - I Still Live Here Artist: Jenny Hale Original watercolor, printed digital collage, LED lights Through a window in time, a Nisenan dancer turns his back on a village that has displaced his own. Before Nevada City, the Nisenan lived at the same bend of Deer Creek in a village called ‘ustomah. His essence will forever live in the natural world of the Northern Sierra Foothills, and miraculously, his descendants still walk here. The dancer is superimposed over an engraving of Nevada City in 1851. In 1848 there were 7,000 indigenous people in Nevada County. By 1852 that number was reduced to 3,226, due to murder, disease, loss of hunting grounds, and relocation. Confronting the destruction of the Nisenan, is a small first step in acknowledging the humanity, and value of the people who came before. Today there are 144 descendants of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249511758-UTICSOUCWCK8CLNQP5EW/carmel-alyssawalz-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Carmel 1921-2014 Artist: Alyssa Walz Medium: Pencil, Ink & Pastel Carmel was born in Jackson California, her mother Mandy died from tuberculosis when Carmel was only 2 years old. She was then raised by a Southern Nisenan, Miwuk, and African American woman decent she called Auntie. Auntie raised Carmel on the Auburn Rancheria where they took care of Captain Jim Dick and Koto Jane Lewis. Carmel left Auburn Rancheria at 18 years old to marry Frances “Dutch” Rose and had 6 daughters, she was a midwife, healer, language keeper, and matriarch of our family until her passing in 2014. She left her songs to her descendants before she died and they will continue on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599196283494-GZEQW0Y12X5I4SIT6DFO/angkulaseo-andrewcerrona-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Angkula Seo Artist: Andrew Cerrona Digital Sketch The intention behind this piece is to help reclaim a name and space for the Nisenan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249723073-BPIG39AMRRKT7LNVIMLP/tree-lorilachman-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Tree Artist: Lori Lachman Photographs on Wood “Tree” The fence cannot stop the tree from growing and the spirts from moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249591519-3YWQXBIN2OVV0UOY3RDJ/oustomah-lorilachman-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - “Oustomah” 'ustomah Artist: Lori Lachman Photographs on Wood The original name of the Nisenan town that lies beneath Nevada City, ever emblazed in our sidewalk, thanks ironically to the Oddfellows in the early 1800s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249621353-VUA9H6ALO0B1SLCPENYY/storiesfromthenisenan-jenniferrugge-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Stories from the Nisenan Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media using natural mineral paints with cold wax on wood canvas "The Gray Pines" The wind picks up and changes directions as the sun descends to rest behind the Earth and her mountains. The gray trees rustle their needles. They stretch their branches and creak their trunks. Then it happens! The trees come alive to begin their dance! The moon rises. The graceful movements of the gray pine trees look black against the darkened sky. The moonlight glistens over the needles bathing them in yellow and white as they flitter and twinkle. The trees sway, jump and dip, moving to the rhythms of the wind as it swirls around them. "What great joy to dance all night long." Day breaks creeping along the ridge, over the gurgling river waters to warm the Earth. The wind subsides. The gray trees return to the stillness of stiffened trunks and arching branches, frozen into positions at Dawn…until once again the dark night frees them into the delight of dance. Shh! These are the gray pines that come alive to dance at night. "Creation" The Great Creator is born first. Shining brightly, Coyote-Man is brought into being out of the clay by Creator. Next rises the Earth. Soon the mountains are reaching for the skies. Then springs bubble to the surface forming into rivers. The animals appear. Coyote helps creation be. He talks to Creator, speaking about what he thinks ought now to be done with all the things created. **The stories in the painting and this writing are inspired by the stories shared in the book by Richard B. Johnson, The History of Us, Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249687444-YNLNQX8SJ8OPS6O9F5QP/wheredowegofromhere-ruthchase-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Where Do We Go From Here Artist: Ruth Chase Acrylic on Canvas NOTE: Created for Belonging, an arts initiative through Nevada County Arts Council and California Arts Council Grant Artist in Communities. “Where Do We Go From Here" expresses the significance of the Nisenan to our community. How the American dream has played a roll in their development as a tribe externally and internally. ‘nisem humwa’a’ is Nisenan for : My family is from my heart or, my heart is drawn to my family (exact translation is difficult). An interpretation of a photo from 1967: Shelly Covert being held by Grandpa Ralph, her mother Ginger (Virginia) Lee Rose-Covert and her father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599272556248-E5N8HKAJ2PZ81V4EB5F0/storyofgold-jenniferrugge-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Story of Gold Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media using natural mineral paints with cold wax on wood canvas (Retold from S. Bray’s version) From Richard Johnson’s book, ‘History of Us, Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria.’ Hahatweenah, a young maiden, is to marry a young chieftain who lives in another tribe closeby. She dreams of the day they will be together. Soon she receives a message that her love has been kidnapped by an unfriendly tribe. The young chieftain is carried off and is offered to the Great Spirit as a sacrifice by his captors. Deeply saddened, she remains true and devoted to her lost Love. She gathers the tiny seeds of the golden poppy during the spring. She travels the hills and valleys scattering the seeds she has saved, planting them along her way as an expression of her love. The poppies multiply and fill the land with golden views of orange and yellow. The Great Spirit observes her devotion and consistency to spread more beauty. Therefore, the Great Spirit sends the roots of the poppy seeds to go down into the depths of the earth to unite with rock. Here under the clothes of the land rock forms into gold, gold that shimmers in the light as do the poppies. Through the winter winds and storms, the seeds are strewn further and further, covering more hillsides and valleys until the countryside is a vast garden of glistening golden poppies…and underground rests the treasures of the golden metal. California poppies - the true essence of gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249720882-NMUYLO7D1U1TPKAGZ68B/womanoftruth-chloeyoung-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - The Woman of Truth Artist: Chloe Young Acrylic on Canvas My piece is of a Nisenan woman surrounded by the animal spirits of the local area as she stands strong in the woods with the sunset without fear. The mountains are of the Sierras with the grassy tree-covered hills of Grass Valley/Nevada City area below it with gold flakes freely flying around resembling freedom from the gold mining of the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249601450-NFOUSZBFOZDKM44EDYM3/plantmedicine-jessahurst-2018.jpg+.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Plant Medicine Artist: Jessa Hurst Acrylic on Canvas Before this area became known for its abundance of Gold, it was known for being rich in other valuable resources such as medicinal plants. The Nisenan people cared for these medicinal plants, harvested them, and traded them to neighboring tribes. The plant keepers, where important members of the tribe. The knowledge of these healing plants was cherished and this wisdom was passed down from generation to generation. When colonizers came to this area, the Nisenan people were not able to tend to the plants as they once did and the wisdom of this resource was greatly diluted. A few members of the tribe remain who still carry this plant wisdom. In this painting Lorena Rose Davis, one of the remaining plant wisdom holders, is depicted, surrounded by several of the local medicinal plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249566381-3K0SE8AM535JZP46A27F/motherearth-miraclark-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Mother Earth Artist: Mira Clark Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas This piece was inspired in part by Ginger Covert’s poem with the same title. The image of the Earth as a living being and nurturing mother served as a cultural constraint restricting the actions of human beings in many cultures for millennia. The Nisenan are one such culture. One does not readily slay a mother, digging into her for gold or mutilate her body. The Gold Rush of the 1850’s was devastating to the environment and the Nisenan, reflecting a very different perspective of the Earth’s value. Commercial mining required a specific belief system in regards to the Earth to carry out destructive acts against the environment and other living beings. This painting captures the violation of mining and this clash of beliefs. The Gold baby in this painting represents the precious metal that is like the unborn child of the Mother Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249663346-2WSOPJGQ4S16UJWKLV54/tektek-miraclark-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - tek tek Artist: Mira Clark Acrylic on Canvas “Language is power. Language is the main conduit for culture, our languages connect us to our people, our landscapes, and to each other. We were told the Nisenan Language, ‘was an extinct language,’ but our Elders were still speaking, singing, and telling stories. We have worked to have the language reclassified as a ‘sleeping language,’ we are reclaiming our connections and participating in our culture. ‘Tek Tek’ is the Nisenan word for a red-tailed hawk. Tek Tek watches everything and sees this happening and stands witness to the revival of our past, history and culture.” -Shelly Covert This piece honors the wildlife of this area and revitalizing the Nisenan Language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599270433416-DQCM7XND9ZN7GHOBTX54/1.png Visibility Through Art 2018 - Replica of Nisenan Ceremonial Dance Belt Artist: Victoria Moran Made with beads and loom “This is a beautifully crafted reproduction of a Nisenan ceremonial dance belt. The original piece is displayed at the Firehouse No.1 Museum in Nevada City where it is on loan from a Nevada City Rancheria Tribal member as part of the Nevada County Historical Society’s Nisenan Exhibit. The original piece is in extremely fragile condition and cannot be handled. The original piece was created in the late-1800’s and was well used until it was put away for safekeeping. The pattern is of the four directions and is an ancient power symbol used across the planet by many cultures for millennia. The ancient Hindu and Buddhist symbol of the “Swastika” used by the Nazi party, is possibly the world’s most famous example of cultural appropriation.” -Shelly Covert The top image is of Original Nisenan Belt in the Firehouse Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599272585749-6FT74TUJLXY7E66698RQ/oppressionandthereturntoinnocence-tracyparker-2018+copy.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - Oppression and The Return to Innocence Artist: Tracy Parker 3’x5’ Found Wood and Nails This piece explores at the cellular and mythic levels the energetic depiction of oppression, loss of innocence, taking of land, the crystallized energy found in the cellular memory of abuse, lying deep within the invisible underworld of remembering- A mapping of soul fracture and pain body afflicted by the unconscious masculine, onto the feminine, onto the indigenous lands of Nisenan and within the wombs and bellies of the Nisenan women, men, and children. Currently the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan people, 144 remaining today, do not have a Ceremonial Round House for healing on land, collective prayer, and for practicing their ancestral ways of releasing the dead back to the source, the Milky Way, by way of fire. The intention of this piece is to activate awareness, resources and the funding necessary to construct a Ceremonial Round House for the Nisenan people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249683755-3XLI8TAAENNE6MFP5FH5/truenames-boblain-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - True Names Artist: robert “Bo” Blain Lawfully acquired aluminum street signs and spray paint The disruption of indigenous languages as part of a broader infiltration of indigenous culture has been a strategy of empire-building societies for ages. If a people lose their language they also lose the stories, memories, spirits, and connections to the land held within their original words and expressions. For the Nisenan, the process of forced forgetting was done via various coercive means which forced them to assimilate to the point eventually trying to hide their indigenous identities to avoid discrimination and violence. Another strategy used to erase Nisenan language was the forced placement of Nisenan children into boarding schools where they were further severed from their words, traditions, and place. A remembering is taking place within the remaining Nisenan who have begun the challenging task of reincarnating their original language. This graffiti was created to support this Nisenan remembering process and in the spirit of reclaiming the true names, and with them the stories of the original people, of the lands on which we live ‘ustomah (oo-sto-maa)– Is the true name for the place now occupied by the municipal incorporation called NEVADA CITY. daspah (da-sp-aah)– Is the true name for the place now occupied by the municipal incorporation called GRASS VALLEY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249517146-T82DZF161ZRGXSLPD0J1/estomyanim-ramacryer-2018.jpg Visibility Through Art 2018 - “Estom Yanim Yamanan” Artist: Rama Cryer Acrylic on Plywood Honor the land. Remember the time before the settlers, when the Nisenan were the guardians of the earth. A time when the elk & antelope would roam in herds so vast, they would blacken the hills. When the great condors soared above, and the stars in the sky shone so bright, a clear map to navigate by. Remember the time when the Jom Kapa (grizzly bear) ruled the hills. When mother ‘uba (Yuba) was rich with salmon and ran, uncontrolled, down from the foothills to the feet of the sacred ancestral home, Estom Yanim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599270432196-I4NSB1ALAXFM681Q4J6J/2+copy.png Visibility Through Art 2018 - Nisenan Inspired Skirt Replica Artist: Teighlor Renee Medium: Local Cattail The replica on left, Original on right. This Nisenan skirt is an inspired replica made by artist Teighlor Renee. Skirts were used both ceremonially and as everyday wear by the Nisenan. However, this is not an exact replica and is made from local cattail where the originals were made from Tule. Also, this skirt would be one that was for everyday use and not ceremonial. https://chirpca.org/visibility-through-art-2019 daily 0.75 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251835019-QMXUBZ5WFBTR7FLHZBPN/birdie-jardokane-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Birdie Artist: Jarod Kane Dimensions: 22”x30” Charcoal and clay Featuring Alberta “Birdie” Rose Gallez It has always been the primary function of myth to provide the right symbols to carry the human spirit forward, to contradict those constant fantasies that would hold us back. Through the stories of Coyote we learn of a trickster or of someone who meddles. Coyote can do what we shouldn’t do or say what shouldn’t be said. Through the stories of Coyote we learn life lessons and perhaps some fun. Birdie was a woman who loved to joke around and have fun. Yet she had a way of connecting people and holding bonds together. I have depicted her and Coyote together in hopes to remember and learn from the past. We enter a world of solid matter with uncertain, puzzling adventure ahead that will soon melt away from us. What is important are the stories that we leave behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252027655-D4VNGYI1KT5I4NRN52IT/mountainlion-jenniferrugge-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - pekun – Mountain Lion Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media, papers, mineral paints, gold leaf, charcoal and cold wax Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert In the painting, kapa holds and protects sacred Nisenan beings and the Sacred Mountain, 'estom yanim is etched along his back. If you look closely, other important Nisenan symbology can be found as-well-as great animal beings who are completely gone or in danger of disappearing. We are grateful to artist Jennifer Rugge for creating this image exclusively for our 10th Anniversary Nisenan Heritage Day poster and merchandise. The Mountain Lion, pekun, watches and protects. It is a symbol of leadership, the balance of power, intention, physical strength, and grace or as the balance of body, mind and spirit. Here the shoulders and back of pekun reflect the ridge of the sacred mountain, ‘estom yanim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251822558-V5WSF9S5EMR6051EU2P3/bear-jenniferrugge-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - kapa – Bear Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media, papers, mineral paints, gold leaf, charcoal and cold wax Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert In the painting, kapa holds and protects sacred Nisenan beings and the Sacred Mountain, 'estom yanim is etched along his back. If you look closely, other important Nisenan symbology can be found as-well-as great animal beings who are completely gone or in danger of disappearing. We are grateful to artist Jennifer Rugge for creating this image exclusively for our 10th Anniversary Nisenan Heritage Day poster and merchandise. The Mountain Lion, pekun, watches and protects. It is a symbol of leadership, the balance of power, intention, physical strength, and grace or as the balance of body, mind and spirit. Here the shoulders and back of pekun reflect the ridge of the sacred mountain, ‘estom yanim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251847117-CKBN0R3LYKCYJAXXWHFB/carmelrosejacksonrestored-alyssawalz-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Carmel Rose Jackson, Restored Artist: Alyssa Walz 10” x 14” Pencil, Colored pencil, Ink Featured in this image is Matriarch Carmel Rose Jackson b. 1921, photographed with a traditional Nisenan dancing belt wrapped around her head. During the photoshoot the Non-Nisenan photographer asked Carmel to tie her dancer’s belt around her head—even though it did not belong there. She did not want to embarrass the photographer so she posed that way. This is a classic example of how culture can become misrepresented by outsiders which further contributes to erasure. This art piece reclaims the true purpose and tradition of the Nisenan dancing belt. This art piece is intended to allow Carmel’s portrait to be viewed as it should have been originally, without her dancer's belt on her head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251890759-L0NGSPESJXOC69V9UJND/earthminerals-ginger-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members Artist: Ginger Covert, Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing, and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251875549-5PE4SHMTTXC8863RWS6I/earthminerals-ember-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Earth Minerals in Painting Artist: Ember Amador (not a Tribal Member) Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing, and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251921193-6KS578CPA7SMJ5GW19QD/earthminerals-shara-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members Artist: Sarah Thomas Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251905691-P2JDG1Q9QQYPIP4VP321/earthminerals-lorena-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members Artist: Lorena Davis Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251815991-3O84FZ8FFTSTC9MIH724/actioncausedbylove-ronkenedi-2019+.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Action Caused by Love Artist: Ron Kenedi 36”x36” Oil on canvas The painting depicts two important advocates for the Nevada City Rancheria, Belle Douglas and Shelly Covert...though separated by a century both provide support and action for the betterment of the Nisenan people. Images of Tribe members, California condor, and the foothills are also represented. The work is meant to elicit a feeling of safety among the people, animals, and homeland while paying well deserved homage to advocates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599278387442-04V3OO3CG3MK2HA7165S/earthabides-jennyhale-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Earth Abides Artist: Jenny Hale 32”x57” Watercolor, digital collage, LED lights Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Vice-Chairperson Ginger Rose Covert Virginia Rose Covert, known as Ginger, holds the position of Vice-Chairperson on the Tribal Council of the Nevada City Rancheria and represents her family in an unbroken leadership line of descendancy. She has been connected to the foothills of the Western Sierra Nevada all her life and is a link to the knowledge and history of the Tribe. While Father Henry “Dutch” Rose was logging in coastal redwood forests, the family lived in the woods. They hunted and gathered and lived off the land. Ginger grew up knowing the plants and creatures of the forest. She knows deer, possum, skunk, bear, frog and snake and they know her. Ginger describes Homeland as something in your body – a spiritual and physical feeling of home. In this artwork – the spirit of the forest watches while 1890’s loggers cut and clear the web of life that supported the Nisenan for thousands of years. Though trees may be felled, rivers rerouted and land washed away - the spirit of the forest will never be destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251967333-QL217T2Z77KUL1MK8X1S/IMG_8488+copy.jpeg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Family Roots Artist: Rama Cryer Wood burning, Acrylic, Pen, and Ink Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member Cassandra Johnson My piece is representative of Cassandra and her kids, the family she loves, and will pass on her Nisenan roots too. Atop a granite mountain, she stands silhouetted, removing her from any stereotypes that might question her Indigenous bloodline. Below her flows the three forks of the Yuba river, and above burned into the sky resides traditional patterns found in basket weaving, and words of the language of her people, her legacy soaking into her children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251941635-6OYZX4Y5IID6DM1KCV1F/findingourwaybackhome-indigodonaldson-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Finding Our Way Back Home Artist: Indigo Donaldson & Sarah Thomas Collage - mixed medium Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Council Member Sarah Thomas The message we would like to convey in this piece is the reassurance to our Ancestors that everything they went through was for us and the fruits of their work are ripening now. That the seed they planted has always been there, gestating, ready to sprout and grow and now the conditions are right for that to happen. Our children and grandchildren are starting to learn the culture and live in some of the ways, to respect our Ancestors, their knowledge, teachings and wisdom. In this piece the three forks of the river represent our past, present, and future. The ‘estom yanim (Sutter Buttes) are where we come from and where we go when we die, then finding our way up to the Milky Way where we start our journey. The lake represents the place where we all come back together and meet again. The Ancestors are always right here guiding us and watching over the grandchildren. We are heading towards a positive future through the path of recognition and finding our way back HOME. “The process of creating this piece together has been an incredibly positive and healing experience for both of us. It really has helped me to open up and share and put some feelings into words and feel comfortable in sharing with you, the artist. Creativity and ease of ideas and visions for this piece has just flowed with intention and inspiration. Putting emotions and thoughts into words then to art on a canvas is sometimes not an easy thing to do, but this process has been surprisingly easy and fulfilling.” - Sarah Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251992768-EQENHJGDM5H1AZSWQCFV/lookaround1-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251995744-A7MPXOAO2AMJDTA52X94/lookaround2-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252000287-DUE508PPOFDOMN7UZJ7T/lookaround3-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252003373-QW948B4EL8WQQUUF5OBB/lookaround4-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252007823-HKS57G0V62GOFVID30D1/lookaround5-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252014422-62FD53ES9LNKASYGESX1/lookaround6-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599322780697-SM0KXF1HTJUSVPHX1PD9/homerecognition-miraclark-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Home | Recognition Artist: Mira Clark 23”x19” Watercolor and Pen Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert The number 287 is the Royce number corresponding with the 1851 California Indian Treaty negotiated between the Nisenan leaders and Federal agents representing the United States. This Treaty known as the “Camp Union Treaty” was negotiated at the confluence of the Bear and Yuba Rivers. The treaty would have provided a section of land located between Penn Valley and Rough and Ready. Tragically the treaties were never ratified by congress and were hidden away out of sight until found in 1904. This piece features the faces of living Tribal Members, as well as, items and places symbolic to home and recognition for the Nisenan people. This image represents the continued erasure, and broken promises that plague not only the Nisenan people, but Indigenous people all over the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252054896-UAL8DX0Y1NXCLOLLRL0T/transmission-andycerrona-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Transmission Artist: Andy Cerrona 16”x20” Digital print on Canvas Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council Member Saxon Thomas This art piece shows Saxon Thomas sharing the gift of native language with his children. The Nisenan language is currently being reclaimed and revitalized by the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan and their Non-Profit CHIRP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251989500-F2P8ZS265FVAAR0VWV1X/Iheardtheirstories-jessahurst-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - I Heard Their Stories Artist: Jessa Hurst 12”x24” Acrylic on Wood Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Member Lorena Rose Davis In our interview, Lorena spoke about how so many of her Ancestors’ stories were never passed along, not written down, and lost as her elders past away. She believes that memories can be passed through our genetics and feels hopeful that if her and her remaining relatives pray in ceremony, their ancestors will come and help them remember. Lorena wrote this poem about a young man praying to a sacred fire and being joined by his ancestors, who remind him of the stories of his lineage. In this picture Lorena's grandson, Eddie, is praying to a sacred fire. His grandma stands behind him in support and above her a deer from the land watches over them. This art piece is a vision of the remembering of stories that Lorena hopes for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252038963-MWHDP6BQXBNQWX07GFUT/rememberingravens-milestoland-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Remembering and Ravens Artist: Miles Toland 30”x20” Acrylic on Birch Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert The ravens in the painting symbolize the Nisenan who were tragically mistreated, displaced, and murdered during the greed and entitlement of the Gold Rush. Similarly, the ravens represent the animal kingdom that is currently being exploited, over hunted, underrepresented, and displaced by human lifestyle to the point of extinction. These stories are parallel and are still being written by our hands. How do we nurture the ravens who have broken free? How do we release the ones still captive? Moreover, this painting also speaks to the recent trip that Shelly Covert took to the Kunstkamera Museum in Saint Petersburg to visit a sacred Raven’s cloak and other artifacts that were taken by Russian explorers in the mid 1800’s. “Ravens are an important part of the old Nisenan stories. They struggle and adapt to the modern world as best they can and reflect to me the Tribe's struggle to survive in modern-day America. Ravens mate for life and are family oriented. They are strong and smart and beautiful. Their memories are outstanding. I am honored to have had a couple of Ravens as friends in my life and understand why their feathers were so important in Traditional Feather Regalia. My obsession for this amazing being leads me back to my Nisenan roots and one day I will have my own Raven Feather Regalia to accompany me in dance and ceremony.” –Shelly Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252042752-A0CAZS4O8YT0NN39H85C/sacred-mountain-lorilachman-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Sacred Mountain – ‘estom yanim Artist: Lori Lachman 11”x14” Photo Transfer Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert “It’s not polite to call it that.” A quote from Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Leader Dutch Rose. “This Mountain is the place of all life, and where we go when we die. Then we ascend to the Milky Way,” said Shelly Covert, Dutch’s granddaughter. This is the place of beginning. This is where we go when we die. This is the gateway to the Milky Way. The Mountain is central in their creation stories and afterlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252032690-3U0L01AQXLOZPC2R5FZS/truenamesp-Bo-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - True Names Artist: Robert “Bo” Blain 24”X12” Spray Paint on Metal Sign Lawfully acquired aluminum street signs and spray paint. The disruption of indigenous languages as part of a broader infiltration of indigenous culture has been a strategy of empire building societies for ages. If a people lose their language they also lose the stories, memories, spirits, and connections to the land held within their original words and expressions. For the Nisenan the process of forced forgetting was done via various coercive means which forced them to assimilate to the point eventually trying to hide their indigenous identities to avoid discrimination and violence. Another strategy used to erase Nisenan language was the forced placement of Nisenan children into boarding schools where they were further severed from their words, traditions, and place. “Kill the Indian, save the man,” was the moto. A remembering is taking place within the remaining Nisenan who have begun the challenging task of taking back their original language. This graffiti was created to support this Nisenan remembering process and in the spirit of reclaiming the true names, and with them the stories of the original people, of the lands on which we live. pan pakan ( pahn-paw-kawn ) Is the true name for the place now occupied by the municipal incorporation called LAKE WILDWOOD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780405382-6W6EM294W33D5QCXWJ8U/WOMENS+SERIES+%234+FINAL_SMALL.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale 3’ x 4’ Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780402703-PG4SW6YPD0RN9ZCBHUMR/WOMENS+SERIES+%233+FINAL_SMALL.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale 3’ x 4’ Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780364709-KMB1EL8A64HRUCJU4G1Q/WOMENS+SERIES+%232+FINAL_SMALL.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale 3’ x 4’ Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780359773-4Y45OKS1QYPADB7TOQSD/WOMENS+SERIES+%231+FINAL_SMALLL.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale 3’ x 4’ Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780411221-JLUB25DX3BOSOO58CZ7V/BestNightCU-.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599323246947-K394P5R7JSMOV60RJFVA/puttingtogetherthepieces-leilaniwebb-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Putting Together the Pieces Artist: Leilani Webb 24”x24” Acrylic and watercolor on wood Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Member Karen McCluskey – descendent of the Rose-Potts family line. Karen has been “Putting Together the Pieces,” to learn her story and heritage. “tukim ne min,” means I love you in Nisenan. She attends classes with her children to learn the language of her Ancestors and help preserve the legacy of her people. When I asked her what she wants others to know about the Nisenan her simple reply spoke volumes, “We’re still here.” She is still here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252026630-MU84BNI55D8OH9KDLE2O/loudsilence-chloeyoung-2019.jpg Visibility Through Art 2019 - Loud Silence Artist: Chloe Young 10”x5” Ink and Markers Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council Member Saxon Thomas This piece is of the ‘estom yanim (Sutter Buttes) with a big fire pit creating dancing smoke that floats up to the sky with the spirit of the wolf and some other forest animals. https://chirpca.org/art-in-storefronts-2020 daily 0.75 2020-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1603252190911-CAFALIA5V5MOJ6B71CQZ/0.jpg ART IN STOREFRONTS 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1603252185255-A7SQNLKUPPZVD3I7W7GG/0-2.jpg ART IN STOREFRONTS 2020 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Visibility Through Art 2021 - Story of Oak Jennifer Rain Crosby jenniferraincrosby.com Handcrafted oak gall inks and egg tempera paints on paper 22x30” The Nisenan lived in harmony with the land for thousands of years before settlers came to California. They cared for the oak groves whose acorns provided a substantial part of their diet. When gold was discovered, immigrant miners and settlers flooded the Nisenan territory, cutting down the trees for lumber, flumes, and for building towns. The loss of the land and the oaks was devastating for the Nisenan. It is my hope that in the near future the Nisenan will regain Federal Recognition, revive their Culture and restore harmony with the land. Special note: The paint and ink in this painting was collected locally and prepared by the artist. The gold and purple-grey tones were made from oak galls. The orange tone was made from earth pigment from the ‘diggins’ in an egg tempera paint. The iridescent gold was made by adding powdered mica to the egg tempera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627764734860-9RSSF8FFKK10NV9UTZN8/Lori_web.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - ‘estom yanim Lori Lachman lorilachman.smugmug.com 18x24” This sunset photo exemplifies another aspect of this year’s theme, Destruction of the Land | Destruction of the People. ‘estom yanim is the place all life comes from and where the Nisenan go when they die, before finishing the journey in the Milky Way. The most Sacred of places has been privately owned since the 1850s and remains inaccessible to the Nisenan people. This is a prime example of the ongoing destruction of Culture, experience by the Nisenan. Regardless of continued efforts toward Cultural revitalization the inability to access this Sacred place and the inability to burn the dead stand as firm physical deterrents to our people and our Culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360611480-EKUL34EWN29412QKEE8E/AkimAginsky21-0997.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Apocalypse Tanner Connor Acrylic Painting 12×16" Mankind has been destroying the Earth for centuries, but not to the scale it is now. With the advancement in our technology over the past 100 years, and the population growing 7 fold, we are polluting the air, water, and land to extremes, killing thousands of creatures on land and our waters daily. With population growth so high, man is destroying so many crucial forests, animals, and insects in its wake to develop land. I paint primarily abstracts, with a variety of techniques. My painting is a representation of the Earth exploding while ghost silhouettes of Nisenan People and animals native to Nevada County look on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363104330-7SVANUFWWUDV4HN6QFW0/AkimAginsky21-1044.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Earth Guardians Jenny Hale jennyhaledesign.com Watercolor painting on paper 46x34” This watercolor started out as a study for the digital piece “Earth Guardians” But then the guardians just wanted me to finish it and who am I to deny them? The relationship between the photographic image and the painted image is a bridge between digital and analog cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363223838-GHM1NYQCR2EMQMAEGAMN/AkimAginsky21-1063.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Aunt Doris Leilani Webb Watercolor on Paper 16x20” Second eldest of the six “Rose” girls. Doris Rose is featured here to celebrate her life as an honored Elder of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627765335297-K5LOMYYD19E6KU8ST2O8/Earth+Guardians+Final+Wed+copy.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Earth Guardians Jenny Hale jennyhaledesign.com Watercolor Painting, Original and Historic Photos, Digital Collage 36X22” Nisenan still hold the memory that the Earth is our home and our source. For every action there is a reaction and humans are not exempt from this natural system. The Earth Guardians hold up their hearts in protest. Their hands are emblazoned with Ancient symbols found on petroglyphs. Hydraulic Mining began in the Sierra Nevada in the 1850s. All the life in entire forests and mountains, was washed away in the pursuit of gold. The mineral spirits in the stones say STOP – WAKE UP - to our interdependence with life in all its forms or you will not survive. In 1884, one of the first environmental laws in the United States was passed to ban the practice of hydraulic mining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363622726-XN0WJL4AVGNOTNRLWVOH/AkimAginsky21-0980.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Look Around Teighlor Renee Anderson Watercolor, Ink A Continuing Series 12x9” In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628439133355-67NIRLGONHCR8HYUVXY0/AkimAginsky21-0988.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Look Around Teighlor Renee Anderson Watercolor, Ink A Continuing Series 12x9” In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628442179337-D8E6VHXNCQUQJB7EY8WL/AkimAginsky21-0992.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Look Around Teighlor Renee Anderson Watercolor, Ink A Continuing Series 12x9” In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360765047-IK53RUB81RT4CBUNGB0U/AkimAginsky21-1004.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - What Remains Kavi Amador (7 years old) Colored Pencils & Watercolor 10x12” Kavi visited 2 locally well known locations: Malakoff Diggins and Hirschman's Pond and drew his impressions. Both are locations radically altered during the mining days. Each is beautiful in its own way, a beauty sullied only by the knowledge of how they arrived at their current form. “At Hirschman’s I saw a spot that looked like where the cliff was blasted away. The cliff of the other side was bare and looked exactly like it looks at Malakoff. There are lots of people at Malakoff and they walk all over. At Hirschman’s people only walk on the trails and more has grown back. Both places are beautiful even though they are destroyed. What I saw inspired me and I felt determined to finish this project.” -Kavi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360799591-6W1F1VEV4O3X7QNIWL15/AkimAginsky21-1011.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - What Remains Kavi Amador (7 years old) Colored Pencils & Watercolor 10x12” Kavi visited 2 locally well known locations: Malakoff Diggins and Hirschman's Pond and drew his impressions. Both are locations radically altered during the mining days. Each is beautiful in its own way, a beauty sullied only by the knowledge of how they arrived at their current form. “At Hirschman’s I saw a spot that looked like where the cliff was blasted away. The cliff of the other side was bare and looked exactly like it looks at Malakoff. There are lots of people at Malakoff and they walk all over. At Hirschman’s people only walk on the trails and more has grown back. Both places are beautiful even though they are destroyed. What I saw inspired me and I felt determined to finish this project.” -Kavi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360865955-ES76PPDRRDVR0AIO243T/AkimAginsky21-1017.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - A Choice Between Two Worlds  Alyssa Walz Pencil & Ink 11x14" As this year’s exhibition is themed "Destruction of the Land, Destruction of the People," I thought it would be fitting to highlight an issue that people in the Grass Valley area should know about. Currently, a Canadian mining company seeks to reopen the Idaho Maryland Mine, invading the lives of countless precious wildlife, local residents, and refreshing the wound to Nisenan culture and land with the threat of a revitalized gold rush. This piece depicts two different versions for the future of the Nisenan land and the environment surrounding the Idaho Maryland Mine. Centered on the mine silo at the intersection of Brunswick and East Bennett roads, the left side shows how reopening the mine could devastate the air, land, and animal life, whereas the right side shows plant and animal life flourishing should we leave it on its current course to revival. We must not allow history to repeat itself with another destructive gold rush. We must defend our environment and stop the reopening of the Idaho Maryland Mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628401375724-F7KDE1CG82MB00GQXM92/AkimAginsky21-1031.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Northbound Chula Linda Gemignani Instagram @earthlyflight Acrylic on Canvas 24X30” North home of the ancestors, a symbol of perseverance. We are all headed Northbound to be with the ancestors. Hourglass symbolizes the confines and pressure of time for a woman fighting for change and Tribal recognition. It takes a strong will to manifest dreams before the hour of our final breath when we become the memories of our manifestations. Shelly Covert A doula helping the rebirth of her invisible Tribe. A steward, reconnecting her non-native community with their sense of place. Pileated Woodpeckers Ancestors supporting and protecting her Journey. Burning hu and shacks in memory of the original descendants of this land whose bodies and homes were burned in ceremony when deceased. Bullard’s Bar Dam and reservoir built over the Sacred burning grounds of many Nisenan lifetimes. Disregarding the life of salmon and life of the Tribe. Witnessing a dam invasively cutting off living waters and so big that it makes a bear look small - we must remember to adjust our perspective, know our place, and remember the ones who came before us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360999497-9VLC7T1VKPN15PZTECDH/AkimAginsky21-1024.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - ‘ustoma Reborn Rama Cryer Instagram @old.oak.flow Mixed Media, Wood burning, Acrylic, Ink 30x18” ‘ustomah, Nevada City, is a land once held by many animals, such as the condor and the elk, and beings, many of which are no longer here. Take a walk down the grassy hills as they once were, or perhaps will be, when the original Indigenous caretakers set the land free. Nisenan place names: daspah = Grass Valley 'ustomah = Nevada City nak nak = Camptonville kai'em pakan = Rough & Ready https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628361328883-FQ78SAF7WAAMBH80DS2N/AkimAginsky21-1037.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Blood in the Water Jarod Kane instagram.com/jarodkane Acrylic on Wood Panel 24x30” This piece represents the meeting of two opposing perspectives; value of the environment above all, versus the value of environmental exploitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363335979-BECL5KSLRUHAENZE5BDC/AkimAginsky21-1071.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Last Harvest Jose Dominguez thebuilders.tumblr.com Oil on Canvas 36x48” This piece, “last harvest” is a still life of objects that symbolize colonization and the destruction of the land and the Indigenous people that lived here. The oak is depicted as a freshly cut stump by a modern chainsaw which sits on its surface, demonstrating the destruction of old growth oaks that were centuries old. By cutting down so many old growth forests not only did the Nisenan lose the food they provided, but nature lost its unique original architecture. A good portion of their diet consisted of acorns. In “History of Us” Richard B Johnson explains that an average adult would consume roughly 500-1000 lbs of acorns a year and Nevada City would need about twelve thousand producing oak trees to feed the village. The baskets allude to the people of this region that skillfully crafted them. Many of the creators of the baskets are no longer here, but their descendants still remain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627764541341-J7VYZNBOYBEDIW9G106L/webHistorical+Trauma-web.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Historical Trauma Ron Kenedi Oil paint on canvas ronkenediart.com 36X48" Historical trauma or unresolved grief from massive losses of lives, land, and Culture by American Indigenous peoples from European contact and colonization is the topic of this painting. Using color, (the burnt red at the heart of the work), important animals (birds of prey), natural elements (broken tree branch) and modern, local art (cement cast sculpture) I hope to convey the feeling of how a catastrophic event in the past can negatively influence generations in the present and future. The event, portrayed on the bottom of the painting, is the California gold rush, which destroyed life and Culture of our local Nisenan people and is symbolized by the central images of the broken tree branch sitting on a red field, surrounded by birds of prey. A note of hope is the unbroken sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628366882814-I8RTPKJEOHL2U4TH2ROZ/Rachel.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Birdie Rachel Rein & Her Daughter Digital Drawing 12 x 12" This piece uses the likeness of Tribal Elder Alberta “Birdie” Rose Gallez. The format evokes American advertisements, imagining an alternate reality in which the Indigenous Nisenan people are thriving under capitalism. While many oral traditions remain, much of Nisenan traditional practices have been disrupted by colonialism, mirroring the loss of Native fire management techniques. Today Nisenan territory is under risk of catastrophic fire due to the cessation of centuries-old methods of Indigenous forest management. This loss parallels the loss of tradition and land, and the personal wealth her family members could have reaped from them. Birdie serves as a metaphor, highlighting the importance of oral history like those she passed on. The stylized sketching and colors of her skin belie the problematic nature of female product advertising icons, from the Land O Lakes "Indian Maiden" to Aunt Jemima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363716668-993484NWJJ55OOJDO2OL/AkimAginsky21-1087.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Interwoven Bishop Randall Instagram @bishop3333 6x5” - 3D Lampworked, Sandcarved Glass The design of this piece is replicated from one of the only surviving baskets in Shelly Covert’s family. The inherently clear nature of the medium (glass) is used to represent the loss of culture, language, and continuity, taking on a ghost-like quality. Visibility, or the lack thereof, is brought to light- made visible again. Its recreation stands to bring form, visibility, and magic back to the Nisenan Tribe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363887747-D35Y4R3ZHMTU3IMAS1HG/AkimAginsky21-1055.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - The Land is The Gold Jessa Hurst & Mira Clark miraclark.com Acrylic and Food Wrappers on Canvas 36x48” This piece is about the exploitation of the land for profit instead of seeing it for its intrinsic beauty and value. The Nisenan people, had a very different view of, and relationship to the environment here. Mining the sacred ‘Uba, “Yuba” for its gold was a colonial settler mindset. This piece is meant to not only bring awareness to the way the land has been mistreated in the past, it also symbolizes the way in which more awareness is needed today with how we are relating to the land, animals, water, and specifically the Yuba. The Yuba river has become a hotspot for much tourism and social interaction. It is important to be aware of how we interact with this land as we visit the Yuba. We created this piece as a ritual and a prayer that people who visit the Yuba do so with mindfulness and respect, leaving no trace and taking care of this beautiful watershed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628364050961-YFHV3WMR7Q6US4NVYQ21/AkimAginsky21-1049.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - The Land is The Gold Jessa Hurst & Mira Clark miraclark.com Food Wrappers on Wood with Epoxy Resin 16x24” This piece is about the exploitation of the land for profit instead of seeing it for its intrinsic beauty and value. The Nisenan people, had a very different view of, and relationship to the environment here. Mining the sacred ‘Uba, “Yuba” for its gold was a colonial settler mindset. This piece is meant to not only bring awareness to the way the land has been mistreated in the past, it also symbolizes the way in which more awareness is needed today with how we are relating to the land, animals, water, and specifically the Yuba. The Yuba river has become a hotspot for much tourism and social interaction. It is important to be aware of how we interact with this land as we visit the Yuba. We created this piece as a ritual and a prayer that people who visit the Yuba do so with mindfulness and respect, leaving no trace and taking care of this beautiful watershed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363731240-TEE9NFN11U2HT8BND89D/Andres1.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Washed Away Andrés Amador AndresAmadorArts.com Mixed, Natural Materials, Photography, Video 24”x36” In this artwork a traditional Nisenan basket-weaving motif is painted with clay onto a granite slab on the bank of the Yuba river, symbolizing the connection of earth and the Native people. The painting gets washed away by a pump fire extinguisher and a bucket using water from the Yuba, reproducing the total collapse of Culture and environmental systems through the destruction caused by mining (in this case hydraulic mining) to the land and the people. Watch a video of the artwork being washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363739053-3JDL82468G1CTX5GTHXY/Andres2.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Washed Away  Andrés Amador AndresAmadorArts.com Mixed, Natural Materials, Photography, Video (1) 24”x36”, (2) 12”x16” In this artwork a traditional Nisenan basket-weaving motif is painted with clay onto a granite slab on the bank of the Yuba river, symbolizing the connection of earth and the Native people. The painting gets washed away by a pump fire extinguisher and a bucket using water from the Yuba, reproducing the total collapse of Culture and environmental systems through the destruction caused by mining (in this case hydraulic mining) to the land and the people. Watch a video of the artwork being washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363747915-QMEZFNXR7QTLT75VNE76/Andres3.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Washed Away Andrés Amador AndresAmadorArts.com Mixed, Natural Materials, Photography, Video (1) 24”x36”, (2) 12”x16” In this artwork a traditional Nisenan basket-weaving motif is painted with clay onto a granite slab on the bank of the Yuba river, symbolizing the connection of earth and the Native people. The painting gets washed away by a pump fire extinguisher and a bucket using water from the Yuba, reproducing the total collapse of Culture and environmental systems through the destruction caused by mining (in this case hydraulic mining) to the land and the people. Watch a video of the artwork being washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628367287954-C8DR3XV0T0AAPO5OQFYT/217873991_2958185701104856_1119618592471648225_n.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Still Here Andres Amador AndresAmadorArts.com Yuba Rocks painted with Clay Inspired by Nisenan Petroglyph Designs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1629575952215-YRLXG4XNDATSHMDXUMOW/Weit%2C+Simone+web.jpg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Reciprocity Simone Star simonestar.com Acrylic, Oil, and Gold Leaf 16x20” Prior to colonization and genocide, the Nisenan people lived in reciprocity and balance with the natural world. Historical depictions and representations of Nevada County glorify the “Gold Rush” culture while ignoring the violence committed by white colonizers towards both the land, animals, and original inhabitants. This piece seeks to depict the contrast between the ways that the Nisenan people lived in sustainable and harmonious relationship with the land, and the exploitation and brutality of the gold rush. On one side the image depicts an open hand in an act of giving and receiving as it touches the arc of a clear ‘Uba (Yuba) river filled with abundant gold. The other side of the image portrays a closed fist grabbing at the last remaining gold in a polluted river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628889243904-U61AVHW2HP66HW6ZN78H/IMG_7194.jpeg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Real Value Mira Clark miraclark.com Sand from the Yuba River, Gold Acorn, Gold Pan What is truly valuable? How do we determine the value of the Earth? The oak trees provided the majority of calories for the Nisenan People. The value of the land, the forest, and the health of our natural environments should be prioritized. These resources are Sacred because they sustain all life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628889247909-4RV1WDCJKN5DS6Q381KE/IMG_7189.jpeg Visibility Through Art 2021 - Part of the ‘Uba Seo VTA Window Display Part of the ‘Uba Seo VTA Window Display We are invited to consider: the impact humans have on the environment and the long-lasting devastation of the gold rush on the Nisenan People. What is truly valuable? How do we determine the value of the Earth? The oak trees provided the majority of calories for the Nisenan People. The value of the land, the forest, and the health of our natural environments should be prioritized. 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Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599184730996-T9QO6QGEQVKXE1F2NFOT/sarahthomas-alexdita-2017.jpg 2017art - Four Generations: Sarah Thomas (Copy) Four Generations: Sarah Thomas Artist: Alex Dita Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by the darkroom process. Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599185122254-41K7HIG884JWTDQMACFQ/saxonthomas-alexdita-2017.jpg 2017art - Four Generations: Saxon Thomas (Copy) Four Generations: Saxon Thomas Artist: Alex Dita Medium: Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by the darkroom process Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599181723551-T4UE1Z5OSZLIQJO26MPT/nataleethomas-alexdita-2017.jpg 2017art - Four Generations: Natalee Thomas (Copy) Four Generations: Natalee Thomas Artist: Alex Dita Medium Format negatives processed and enlarged by the darkroom process Four generations of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178423652-5E3LPKEY2Q7F7O43T2RG/firstdeath-shellycovert-2017.jpg 2017art - First Death (Copy) First Death Artist: Shelly Covert ~ Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council Spokesperson Acrylic on Canvas It is said that when the Nisenan people were first on the earth they were not meant to die a permanent death. But, as was his way, Coyote meddled. Coyote argued that those who died should stay dead; for if they weren’t dead, how could the people have a burn or a cry? After much insisting on Coyote’s part it was such that those who died would stay dead. Sadly for Coyote, it was his own son who would be the first to lose his life in an unfortunate fall. In his grief, Coyote demanded that the Creator bring his son back to life. After all, the fall had been an accident! But dead was dead and Coyote could only mourn for the loss of his son. Coyote’s character and moral compass are the center point for many of the Nisenan stories that involve him. In a great number of these stories, Coyote portrays who we don’t want to be; Coyote does what we shouldn’t do, and Coyote says the things that shouldn’t be said. In this painting, First Death, Coyote suffers the direct outcome of his meddling ways and loses his son in an unforeseen consequence of his own making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178487777-HW8VL94AEBCN45V8ZSQ3/invisible-ashelyforeman-2017.jpg 2017art - Invisible (Copy) Invisible Ashely Foreman Acrylic on Canvas “Regalia: When dawning regalia, we are captured by our culture. We are enfolded into ancestral history thousands of years old. We may be physically separated from our Ancestors by great distances of time, but when we dance, sing, pray, we are transported to a place where time doesn’t exist. We share the songs and lives of the culture together as if mutually incarnated at that very moment; at every moment.” -Shelly Covert When I heard of the erasure of the Nisenan, a vision came to mind of a Tribal Member in full regalia, but with the person removed entirely. It was an image inspired by the erasure of their culture. It is meant to be metaphorical for the disappearance or invisibility that the Nisenan experience here in there Ancestral Homelands. The relics, artifacts, and evidence of their existence are still here, but the knowledge of their existence to non-Nisenan is minimal. They are still present, still alive… but often made invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599414868756-RKTSM6HFLLJCTI0VU40P/ritual-miraclark-2017.jpg 2017art - Ritual (Copy) Ritual Artist: Mira Clark 24x36 Acrylic on Wood with Stones “The Nisenan people were a cremating society. Their ancient ritual of burning the dead dates back thousands of years and countless generations. Steeped in protocol and social design were the means to burn the departed and all their belongings, to cry and mourn their death, and to honor their remaining family members. Then, the spirit released, would travel to the sacred mountain where the first spirit food was eaten. Finally, the spirit would travel on to the Milky Way. After the Nisenan were forcibly removed and their lands taken from them, the colonizing settlers outlawed the burning of the deceased.” –Shelly Covert The small stones in this piece are from the Yuba River and represent the Nisenan's continued connection to this land. The word Yuba comes from the Nisenan "Uba" and is the only Nisenan word that remains on the landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183598805-3P7D6NG6DZSGN6WAVTZO/yubaalive-andycerrona-2017.jpg 2017art - Yuba Alive (Copy) Yuba Alive Artist: Andy Cerrona Digital Sketch Celebrating the life-giving force of the Yuba, and the beautiful canyon that it feeds. Expressed through shapes and angles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599178433607-U2S0V8P73L8P2GQ9BCV2/hiddenvoices-jenniferrugge-2017.jpg 2017art - Hidden Voices (Copy) Hidden Voices Artist: Jennifer Rugge 18 x 24” Papers, photos, gold leaf and oil on wood Inspiration for this painting comes from the stories told by Richard Johnson, author of History of Us. The acorns of the Live Oak were important to the Nisenan people for food. They replanted and grew orchards of oak trees to keep a good supply. Deer Creek was a source of water. The grasses and reeds were essential for weaving baskets. Everything changed quickly in the lives of the Nisenan with the Gold Rush in northern California. The Nisenan dwindled in numbers and their voices silenced at the hands of miners and government laws. Now the voices from the hidden past are heard once again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183269952-I3RPF5LDT8S8PDJ7SR23/richardjohnson-josedominguez-2017.jpg 2017art - Richard B. Johnson (Copy) Richard B. Johnson Artist: Jose Dominguez Colored Pencils on Paper Portrait of Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Chairman Richard B. Johnson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183853704-8WM36WUQZY3U2HGQBA8E/motherwiththekey-andycerrona-2017.jpg 2017art - Mother With The Key (Copy) Mother With The Key Artist: Andy Cerrona Medium: Digital Sketch This piece was sparked from a conversation with Shelly Covert about her experience of separation from place and earth that her Tribe experienced in the trauma of North American colonization. I strongly imagined that the earth felt this separation too, and even though it experiences loss it still holds the key for reuniting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599183233614-RV1MRXLE5WZT2PHZZI7A/thematriarchwithherdaughters-alyssawalz-2017.jpg 2017art - The Matriarch With Her Daughters (Copy) The Matriarch With Her Daughters Artist: Alyssa Walz Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel on Paper “Pictured in this image are Carmel Rose Burrows and her eldest four daughters, Alberta ‘Birdie,’ Virginia ‘Ginger,’ Doris ‘Doedoe,’ and baby Lorena ‘Lori.’ The picture was taken in front of their new cabin in the “diggings.” While this photo looks like it could be a snapshot from the 1800s, it was actually taken in 1948, Native Americans lived then, and today, in disadvantaged communities and at a deficit in comparison to much of the rest of the country.” -Shelly Covert https://chirpca.org/print-images daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598919087231-HLU498WKJRLDOARCEMKS/rememberingravens-milestoland-2019+copy.jpg Print Images - Remembering & Ravens (Copy) Remembering & Ravens Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Miles Toland 2019 Art Reception milestoland.com Acrylic on Birch Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert The ravens in the painting symbolize the Nisenan who were tragically mistreated, displaced, and murdered during the greed and entitlement of the Gold Rush. Similarly, the ravens represent the animal kingdom that is currently being exploited, over hunted, under represented, and displaced by human lifestyle to the point of extinction. These stories are parallel and are still being written by our hands. How do we nurture the ravens who have broken free? How do we release the ones still captive? Moreover, this painting also speaks to the recent trip that Shelly Covert took to the Kunstkamera Museum in Saint Petersburg to visit a sacred Raven’s cloak and other artifacts that were taken by Russian explorers in the mid 1800’s. “Ravens are an important part of the old Nisenan stories. They struggle and adapt to the modern world as best they can and reflect to me the Tribe's struggle to survive in modern day America. Ravens mate for life and are family oriented. They are strong and smart and beautiful. Their memories are outstanding. I am honored to have had a couple of Ravens as friends in my life and understand why their feathers were so important in Traditional Feather Regalia. My obsession for this amazing being leads me back to my Nisenan roots and one day I will have my own Raven Feather Regalia to accompany me in dance and ceremony.” –Shelly Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598919109122-I1LEW0K5DEUMXFNT22XO/wheredowegofromhere-ruthchase-2018+copy.jpg Print Images - Where Do We Go From Here (Copy) Where Do We Go From Here Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Ruth Chase 2018 BELONGING Project RuthChase.com Acrylic on Canvas “Where Do We Go From Here" expresses the significance of the Nisenan to our community. How the American dream has played a roll in their development as a tribe externally and internally. ‘nisem humwa’a’ is Nisenan for: My family is from my heart or, my heart is drawn to my family (exact translation is difficult). An interpretation of a photo from 1967: Shelly Covert being held by Grandpa Ralph, her mother Ginger (Virginia) Lee Rose-Covert and her father. Created for Belonging, an arts initiative through Nevada County Arts Council and California Arts Council Grant Artist in Communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598919465488-PZVY45HR2DLPNLRF2PJ6/image-asset.jpeg Print Images - Yuba Alive (Copy) Yuba Alive Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Andy Cerrona 2017 Collection Digital Sketch "Celebrating the life giving force of the Yuba, and the beautiful canyon that it feeds. Expressed through shapes and angles." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1598918682018-4EFV6HLZ5XSMP9IH1CWY/image-asset.jpeg Print Images - Tek Tek (Copy) Tek Tek Click here to select this 10x12 print as your VIP gift. Only 1 print per ticket. Mira Clark existinspired.com Acrylic on Canvas “Language is power. Language is the main conduit for culture, our languages connect us to our people, our landscapes, and to each other. We were told the Nisenan Language, ‘was an extinct language,’ but our Elders were still speaking, singing, and telling stories. We have worked to have the language reclassified as a ‘sleeping language,’ we are reclaiming our connections and participating in our culture. ‘Tek Tek’ is the Nisenan word for a red tailed hawk. Tek Tek watches everything and sees this happening and stands witness to the revival of our past, history and culture.” -Shelly Covert This piece honors the wildlife of this area and revitalizing the Nisenan Language. https://chirpca.org/2018art daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599196403194-PH6M05Z4MJ2KVA3YEJ7G/basket-lorilachman-2018.jpg 2018art - Basket (Copy) Basket Artist: Lori Lachman Photographs on Wood Heavy acorn mush strains the bottoms of baskets, this is a close up of Nisenan repair on one such basket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249525426-EYTPD1BS00DHAIA1AAZV/identity-jarodkane-2018.jpg 2018art - Identity (Copy) Identity Artist: Jarod Kane Acrylic on Wood Panel This piece is about identity, maintaining, and finding. I hope that it will help to maintain the culture and history of a community and land. I view this image as a fingerprint of the land and find that it shows both nature and human presence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249523632-YCVMECCG4LAN5EDILZTE/grindingstone-bishoprandall-2018.jpg 2018art - 'eyi nik • pulu • baj (Grinding Stone) (Copy) 'eyi nik • pulu • baj (Grinding Stone) Artist: Bishop Randall Lampworked, sand carved glass First, there were the First People and the First People changed into trees, plants, rocks, rain, hail, and animals. And then Animals made Our People. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249488978-9V7JQ2XRYDQSK5ISY3Q5/babe-nikilabadua-2018.jpg 2018art - “BABE” - Nisenan/Konkow Basket Weaver (Copy) “BABE” - Nisenan/Konkow Basket Weaver Artist: Nikila Badua Multimedia on wood. Ink and Graphite mixed with pigments sourced from local materials - rocks from the Yuba River and charcoal from burned oak. Bear and Yuba River watersheds are the homeland of our Honored Elder, Helen “Babe” Rose Echols. Babe lives in Dobbins, California, and at nearly 80 years of age, is one of the Tribe’s last basket weavers. Konkow on her mother’s side, her father, Dan Rose, was Nisenan, and a very important medicine man in the family. Babe is known for her beautiful, large open-weave baskets made from redbud. The Nisenan honor their baskets as living beings, said to each have its own spirit. Though basket weavings are some of the oldest recorded textiles found in the world’s history, carbon dated back to 12,000 years, it is difficult to preserve them, as their natural materials wear out with age, and return to the earth in a living-dying cycle of life. It is also said that these baskets should not necessarily be preserved behind glass, as they are living beings that should be utilized. But for all practical reasons of protecting this endangered way of life, you can find some of the last local traditional Nisenan baskets displayed in Nevada City’s Firehouse Museum, which Tribal members still come to visit and sing to them to honor their spirits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249529659-5HV1YPVXCLGBYUQ2ZZXE/istilllivehere-jennyhale-2018.jpg 2018art - I Still Live Here (Copy) I Still Live Here Artist: Jenny Hale Original watercolor, printed digital collage, LED lights Through a window in time, a Nisenan dancer turns his back on a village that has displaced his own. Before Nevada City, the Nisenan lived at the same bend of Deer Creek in a village called ‘ustomah. His essence will forever live in the natural world of the Northern Sierra Foothills, and miraculously, his descendants still walk here. The dancer is superimposed over an engraving of Nevada City in 1851. In 1848 there were 7,000 indigenous people in Nevada County. By 1852 that number was reduced to 3,226, due to murder, disease, loss of hunting grounds, and relocation. Confronting the destruction of the Nisenan, is a small first step in acknowledging the humanity, and value of the people who came before. Today there are 144 descendants of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249511758-UTICSOUCWCK8CLNQP5EW/carmel-alyssawalz-2018.jpg 2018art - Carmel 1921-2014 (Copy) Carmel 1921-2014 Artist: Alyssa Walz Medium: Pencil, Ink & Pastel Carmel was born in Jackson California, her mother Mandy died from tuberculosis when Carmel was only 2 years old. She was then raised by a Southern Nisenan, Miwuk, and African American woman decent she called Auntie. Auntie raised Carmel on the Auburn Rancheria where they took care of Captain Jim Dick and Koto Jane Lewis. Carmel left Auburn Rancheria at 18 years old to marry Frances “Dutch” Rose and had 6 daughters, she was a midwife, healer, language keeper, and matriarch of our family until her passing in 2014. She left her songs to her descendants before she died and they will continue on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599196283494-GZEQW0Y12X5I4SIT6DFO/angkulaseo-andrewcerrona-2018.jpg 2018art - Angkula Seo (Copy) Angkula Seo Artist: Andrew Cerrona Digital Sketch The intention behind this piece is to help reclaim a name and space for the Nisenan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249723073-BPIG39AMRRKT7LNVIMLP/tree-lorilachman-2018.jpg 2018art - Tree (Copy) Tree Artist: Lori Lachman Photographs on Wood “Tree” The fence cannot stop the tree from growing and the spirts from moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249591519-3YWQXBIN2OVV0UOY3RDJ/oustomah-lorilachman-2018.jpg 2018art - “Oustomah” 'ustomah (Copy) “Oustomah” 'ustomah Artist: Lori Lachman Photographs on Wood The original name of the Nisenan town that lies beneath Nevada City, ever emblazed in our sidewalk, thanks ironically to the Oddfellows in the early 1800s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249621353-VUA9H6ALO0B1SLCPENYY/storiesfromthenisenan-jenniferrugge-2018.jpg 2018art - Stories from the Nisenan (Copy) Stories from the Nisenan Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media using natural mineral paints with cold wax on wood canvas "The Gray Pines" The wind picks up and changes directions as the sun descends to rest behind the Earth and her mountains. The gray trees rustle their needles. They stretch their branches and creak their trunks. Then it happens! The trees come alive to begin their dance! The moon rises. The graceful movements of the gray pine trees look black against the darkened sky. The moonlight glistens over the needles bathing them in yellow and white as they flitter and twinkle. The trees sway, jump and dip, moving to the rhythms of the wind as it swirls around them. "What great joy to dance all night long." Day breaks creeping along the ridge, over the gurgling river waters to warm the Earth. The wind subsides. The gray trees return to the stillness of stiffened trunks and arching branches, frozen into positions at Dawn…until once again the dark night frees them into the delight of dance. Shh! These are the gray pines that come alive to dance at night. "Creation" The Great Creator is born first. Shining brightly, Coyote-Man is brought into being out of the clay by Creator. Next rises the Earth. Soon the mountains are reaching for the skies. Then springs bubble to the surface forming into rivers. The animals appear. Coyote helps creation be. He talks to Creator, speaking about what he thinks ought now to be done with all the things created. **The stories in the painting and this writing are inspired by the stories shared in the book by Richard B. Johnson, The History of Us, Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249687444-YNLNQX8SJ8OPS6O9F5QP/wheredowegofromhere-ruthchase-2018.jpg 2018art - Where Do We Go From Here (Copy) Where Do We Go From Here Artist: Ruth Chase Acrylic on Canvas NOTE: Created for Belonging, an arts initiative through Nevada County Arts Council and California Arts Council Grant Artist in Communities. “Where Do We Go From Here" expresses the significance of the Nisenan to our community. How the American dream has played a roll in their development as a tribe externally and internally. ‘nisem humwa’a’ is Nisenan for : My family is from my heart or, my heart is drawn to my family (exact translation is difficult). An interpretation of a photo from 1967: Shelly Covert being held by Grandpa Ralph, her mother Ginger (Virginia) Lee Rose-Covert and her father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599272556248-E5N8HKAJ2PZ81V4EB5F0/storyofgold-jenniferrugge-2018.jpg 2018art - Story of Gold (Copy) Story of Gold Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media using natural mineral paints with cold wax on wood canvas (Retold from S. Bray’s version) From Richard Johnson’s book, ‘History of Us, Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria.’ Hahatweenah, a young maiden, is to marry a young chieftain who lives in another tribe closeby. She dreams of the day they will be together. Soon she receives a message that her love has been kidnapped by an unfriendly tribe. The young chieftain is carried off and is offered to the Great Spirit as a sacrifice by his captors. Deeply saddened, she remains true and devoted to her lost Love. She gathers the tiny seeds of the golden poppy during the spring. She travels the hills and valleys scattering the seeds she has saved, planting them along her way as an expression of her love. The poppies multiply and fill the land with golden views of orange and yellow. The Great Spirit observes her devotion and consistency to spread more beauty. Therefore, the Great Spirit sends the roots of the poppy seeds to go down into the depths of the earth to unite with rock. Here under the clothes of the land rock forms into gold, gold that shimmers in the light as do the poppies. Through the winter winds and storms, the seeds are strewn further and further, covering more hillsides and valleys until the countryside is a vast garden of glistening golden poppies…and underground rests the treasures of the golden metal. California poppies - the true essence of gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249720882-NMUYLO7D1U1TPKAGZ68B/womanoftruth-chloeyoung-2018.jpg 2018art - The Woman of Truth (Copy) The Woman of Truth Artist: Chloe Young Acrylic on Canvas My piece is of a Nisenan woman surrounded by the animal spirits of the local area as she stands strong in the woods with the sunset without fear. The mountains are of the Sierras with the grassy tree-covered hills of Grass Valley/Nevada City area below it with gold flakes freely flying around resembling freedom from the gold mining of the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249601450-NFOUSZBFOZDKM44EDYM3/plantmedicine-jessahurst-2018.jpg+.jpg 2018art - Plant Medicine (Copy) Plant Medicine Artist: Jessa Hurst Acrylic on Canvas Before this area became known for its abundance of Gold, it was known for being rich in other valuable resources such as medicinal plants. The Nisenan people cared for these medicinal plants, harvested them, and traded them to neighboring tribes. The plant keepers, where important members of the tribe. The knowledge of these healing plants was cherished and this wisdom was passed down from generation to generation. When colonizers came to this area, the Nisenan people were not able to tend to the plants as they once did and the wisdom of this resource was greatly diluted. A few members of the tribe remain who still carry this plant wisdom. In this painting Lorena Rose Davis, one of the remaining plant wisdom holders, is depicted, surrounded by several of the local medicinal plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249566381-3K0SE8AM535JZP46A27F/motherearth-miraclark-2018.jpg 2018art - Mother Earth (Copy) Mother Earth Artist: Mira Clark Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas This piece was inspired in part by Ginger Covert’s poem with the same title. The image of the Earth as a living being and nurturing mother served as a cultural constraint restricting the actions of human beings in many cultures for millennia. The Nisenan are one such culture. One does not readily slay a mother, digging into her for gold or mutilate her body. The Gold Rush of the 1850’s was devastating to the environment and the Nisenan, reflecting a very different perspective of the Earth’s value. Commercial mining required a specific belief system in regards to the Earth to carry out destructive acts against the environment and other living beings. This painting captures the violation of mining and this clash of beliefs. The Gold baby in this painting represents the precious metal that is like the unborn child of the Mother Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249663346-2WSOPJGQ4S16UJWKLV54/tektek-miraclark-2018.jpg 2018art - tek tek (Copy) tek tek Artist: Mira Clark Acrylic on Canvas “Language is power. Language is the main conduit for culture, our languages connect us to our people, our landscapes, and to each other. We were told the Nisenan Language, ‘was an extinct language,’ but our Elders were still speaking, singing, and telling stories. We have worked to have the language reclassified as a ‘sleeping language,’ we are reclaiming our connections and participating in our culture. ‘Tek Tek’ is the Nisenan word for a red-tailed hawk. Tek Tek watches everything and sees this happening and stands witness to the revival of our past, history and culture.” -Shelly Covert This piece honors the wildlife of this area and revitalizing the Nisenan Language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599270433416-DQCM7XND9ZN7GHOBTX54/1.png 2018art - Replica of Nisenan Ceremonial Dance Belt (Copy) Replica of Nisenan Ceremonial Dance Belt Artist: Victoria Moran Made with beads and loom “This is a beautifully crafted reproduction of a Nisenan ceremonial dance belt. The original piece is displayed at the Firehouse No.1 Museum in Nevada City where it is on loan from a Nevada City Rancheria Tribal member as part of the Nevada County Historical Society’s Nisenan Exhibit. The original piece is in extremely fragile condition and cannot be handled. The original piece was created in the late-1800’s and was well used until it was put away for safekeeping. The pattern is of the four directions and is an ancient power symbol used across the planet by many cultures for millennia. The ancient Hindu and Buddhist symbol of the “Swastika” used by the Nazi party, is possibly the world’s most famous example of cultural appropriation.” -Shelly Covert The top image is of Original Nisenan Belt in the Firehouse Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599272585749-6FT74TUJLXY7E66698RQ/oppressionandthereturntoinnocence-tracyparker-2018+copy.jpg 2018art - Oppression and The Return to Innocence (Copy) Oppression and The Return to Innocence Artist: Tracy Parker 3’x5’ Found Wood and Nails This piece explores at the cellular and mythic levels the energetic depiction of oppression, loss of innocence, taking of land, the crystallized energy found in the cellular memory of abuse, lying deep within the invisible underworld of remembering- A mapping of soul fracture and pain body afflicted by the unconscious masculine, onto the feminine, onto the indigenous lands of Nisenan and within the wombs and bellies of the Nisenan women, men, and children. Currently the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan people, 144 remaining today, do not have a Ceremonial Round House for healing on land, collective prayer, and for practicing their ancestral ways of releasing the dead back to the source, the Milky Way, by way of fire. The intention of this piece is to activate awareness, resources and the funding necessary to construct a Ceremonial Round House for the Nisenan people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249683755-3XLI8TAAENNE6MFP5FH5/truenames-boblain-2018.jpg 2018art - True Names (Copy) True Names Artist: robert “Bo” Blain Lawfully acquired aluminum street signs and spray paint The disruption of indigenous languages as part of a broader infiltration of indigenous culture has been a strategy of empire-building societies for ages. If a people lose their language they also lose the stories, memories, spirits, and connections to the land held within their original words and expressions. For the Nisenan, the process of forced forgetting was done via various coercive means which forced them to assimilate to the point eventually trying to hide their indigenous identities to avoid discrimination and violence. Another strategy used to erase Nisenan language was the forced placement of Nisenan children into boarding schools where they were further severed from their words, traditions, and place. A remembering is taking place within the remaining Nisenan who have begun the challenging task of reincarnating their original language. This graffiti was created to support this Nisenan remembering process and in the spirit of reclaiming the true names, and with them the stories of the original people, of the lands on which we live ‘ustomah (oo-sto-maa)– Is the true name for the place now occupied by the municipal incorporation called NEVADA CITY. daspah (da-sp-aah)– Is the true name for the place now occupied by the municipal incorporation called GRASS VALLEY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599249517146-T82DZF161ZRGXSLPD0J1/estomyanim-ramacryer-2018.jpg 2018art - “Estom Yanim Yamanan” (Copy) “Estom Yanim Yamanan” Artist: Rama Cryer Acrylic on Plywood Honor the land. Remember the time before the settlers, when the Nisenan were the guardians of the earth. A time when the elk & antelope would roam in herds so vast, they would blacken the hills. When the great condors soared above, and the stars in the sky shone so bright, a clear map to navigate by. Remember the time when the Jom Kapa (grizzly bear) ruled the hills. When mother ‘uba (Yuba) was rich with salmon and ran, uncontrolled, down from the foothills to the feet of the sacred ancestral home, Estom Yanim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599270432196-I4NSB1ALAXFM681Q4J6J/2+copy.png 2018art - Nisenan Inspired Skirt Replica (Copy) Nisenan Inspired Skirt Replica Artist: Teighlor Renee Medium: Local Cattail The replica on left, Original on right. This Nisenan skirt is an inspired replica made by artist Teighlor Renee. Skirts were used both ceremonially and as everyday wear by the Nisenan. However, this is not an exact replica and is made from local cattail where the originals were made from Tule. Also, this skirt would be one that was for everyday use and not ceremonial. https://chirpca.org/2019art daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251835019-QMXUBZ5WFBTR7FLHZBPN/birdie-jardokane-2019.jpg 2019art - Birdie (Copy) Birdie Artist: Jarod Kane Dimensions: 22”x30” Charcoal and clay Featuring Alberta “Birdie” Rose Gallez It has always been the primary function of myth to provide the right symbols to carry the human spirit forward, to contradict those constant fantasies that would hold us back. Through the stories of Coyote we learn of a trickster or of someone who meddles. Coyote can do what we shouldn’t do or say what shouldn’t be said. Through the stories of Coyote we learn life lessons and perhaps some fun. Birdie was a woman who loved to joke around and have fun. Yet she had a way of connecting people and holding bonds together. I have depicted her and Coyote together in hopes to remember and learn from the past. We enter a world of solid matter with uncertain, puzzling adventure ahead that will soon melt away from us. What is important are the stories that we leave behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252027655-D4VNGYI1KT5I4NRN52IT/mountainlion-jenniferrugge-2019.jpg 2019art - pekun – Mountain Lion (Copy) pekun – Mountain Lion Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media, papers, mineral paints, gold leaf, charcoal and cold wax Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert In the painting, kapa holds and protects sacred Nisenan beings and the Sacred Mountain, 'estom yanim is etched along his back. If you look closely, other important Nisenan symbology can be found as-well-as great animal beings who are completely gone or in danger of disappearing. We are grateful to artist Jennifer Rugge for creating this image exclusively for our 10th Anniversary Nisenan Heritage Day poster and merchandise. The Mountain Lion, pekun, watches and protects. It is a symbol of leadership, the balance of power, intention, physical strength, and grace or as the balance of body, mind and spirit. Here the shoulders and back of pekun reflect the ridge of the sacred mountain, ‘estom yanim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251822558-V5WSF9S5EMR6051EU2P3/bear-jenniferrugge-2019.jpg 2019art - kapa – Bear (Copy) kapa – Bear Artist: Jennifer Rugge Mixed media, papers, mineral paints, gold leaf, charcoal and cold wax Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert In the painting, kapa holds and protects sacred Nisenan beings and the Sacred Mountain, 'estom yanim is etched along his back. If you look closely, other important Nisenan symbology can be found as-well-as great animal beings who are completely gone or in danger of disappearing. We are grateful to artist Jennifer Rugge for creating this image exclusively for our 10th Anniversary Nisenan Heritage Day poster and merchandise. The Mountain Lion, pekun, watches and protects. It is a symbol of leadership, the balance of power, intention, physical strength, and grace or as the balance of body, mind and spirit. Here the shoulders and back of pekun reflect the ridge of the sacred mountain, ‘estom yanim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251847117-CKBN0R3LYKCYJAXXWHFB/carmelrosejacksonrestored-alyssawalz-2019.jpg 2019art - Carmel Rose Jackson, Restored (Copy) Carmel Rose Jackson, Restored Artist: Alyssa Walz 10” x 14” Pencil, Colored pencil, Ink Featured in this image is Matriarch Carmel Rose Jackson b. 1921, photographed with a traditional Nisenan dancing belt wrapped around her head. During the photoshoot the Non-Nisenan photographer asked Carmel to tie her dancer’s belt around her head—even though it did not belong there. She did not want to embarrass the photographer so she posed that way. This is a classic example of how culture can become misrepresented by outsiders which further contributes to erasure. This art piece reclaims the true purpose and tradition of the Nisenan dancing belt. This art piece is intended to allow Carmel’s portrait to be viewed as it should have been originally, without her dancer's belt on her head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251890759-L0NGSPESJXOC69V9UJND/earthminerals-ginger-2019.jpg 2019art - Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members (Copy) Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members Artist: Ginger Covert, Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing, and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251875549-5PE4SHMTTXC8863RWS6I/earthminerals-ember-2019.jpg 2019art - Earth Minerals in Painting (Copy) Earth Minerals in Painting Artist: Ember Amador (not a Tribal Member) Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing, and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251921193-6KS578CPA7SMJ5GW19QD/earthminerals-shara-2019.jpg 2019art - Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members (Copy) Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members Artist: Sarah Thomas Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251905691-P2JDG1Q9QQYPIP4VP321/earthminerals-lorena-2019.jpg 2019art - Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members (Copy) Earth Minerals in Painting, a Workshop with Tribal Members Artist: Lorena Davis Mixed media using papers, charcoal, and mineral paints With Earth Artist, Jennifer Rugge, Tribal members learned the skill of mixing natural mineral pigments into paints and their application to create organic works of Art on wood panels. Members worked individually mixing paints with oil and beeswax, designing and finishing their art pieces. At the conclusion of the workshop, it was realized that each painting represented a Season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251815991-3O84FZ8FFTSTC9MIH724/actioncausedbylove-ronkenedi-2019+.jpg 2019art - Action Caused by Love (Copy) Action Caused by Love Artist: Ron Kenedi 36”x36” Oil on canvas The painting depicts two important advocates for the Nevada City Rancheria, Belle Douglas and Shelly Covert...though separated by a century both provide support and action for the betterment of the Nisenan people. Images of Tribe members, California condor, and the foothills are also represented. The work is meant to elicit a feeling of safety among the people, animals, and homeland while paying well deserved homage to advocates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599278387442-04V3OO3CG3MK2HA7165S/earthabides-jennyhale-2019.jpg 2019art - Earth Abides (Copy) Earth Abides Artist: Jenny Hale 32”x57” Watercolor, digital collage, LED lights Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Vice-Chairperson Ginger Rose Covert Virginia Rose Covert, known as Ginger, holds the position of Vice-Chairperson on the Tribal Council of the Nevada City Rancheria and represents her family in an unbroken leadership line of descendancy. She has been connected to the foothills of the Western Sierra Nevada all her life and is a link to the knowledge and history of the Tribe. While Father Henry “Dutch” Rose was logging in coastal redwood forests, the family lived in the woods. They hunted and gathered and lived off the land. Ginger grew up knowing the plants and creatures of the forest. She knows deer, possum, skunk, bear, frog and snake and they know her. Ginger describes Homeland as something in your body – a spiritual and physical feeling of home. In this artwork – the spirit of the forest watches while 1890’s loggers cut and clear the web of life that supported the Nisenan for thousands of years. Though trees may be felled, rivers rerouted and land washed away - the spirit of the forest will never be destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251967333-QL217T2Z77KUL1MK8X1S/IMG_8488+copy.jpeg 2019art - Family Roots (Copy) Family Roots Artist: Rama Cryer Wood burning, Acrylic, Pen, and Ink Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member Cassandra Johnson My piece is representative of Cassandra and her kids, the family she loves, and will pass on her Nisenan roots too. Atop a granite mountain, she stands silhouetted, removing her from any stereotypes that might question her Indigenous bloodline. Below her flows the three forks of the Yuba river, and above burned into the sky resides traditional patterns found in basket weaving, and words of the language of her people, her legacy soaking into her children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251941635-6OYZX4Y5IID6DM1KCV1F/findingourwaybackhome-indigodonaldson-2019.jpg 2019art - Finding Our Way Back Home (Copy) Finding Our Way Back Home Artists: Indigo Donaldson & Sarah Thomas Collage - mixed medium Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Council Member Sarah Thomas The message we would like to convey in this piece is the reassurance to our Ancestors that everything they went through was for us and the fruits of their work are ripening now. That the seed they planted has always been there, gestating, ready to sprout and grow and now the conditions are right for that to happen. Our children and grandchildren are starting to learn the culture and live in some of the ways, to respect our Ancestors, their knowledge, teachings and wisdom. In this piece the three forks of the river represent our past, present, and future. The ‘estom yanim (Sutter Buttes) are where we come from and where we go when we die, then finding our way up to the Milky Way where we start our journey. The lake represents the place where we all come back together and meet again. The Ancestors are always right here guiding us and watching over the grandchildren. We are heading towards a positive future through the path of recognition and finding our way back HOME. “The process of creating this piece together has been an incredibly positive and healing experience for both of us. It really has helped me to open up and share and put some feelings into words and feel comfortable in sharing with you, the artist. Creativity and ease of ideas and visions for this piece has just flowed with intention and inspiration. Putting emotions and thoughts into words then to art on a canvas is sometimes not an easy thing to do, but this process has been surprisingly easy and fulfilling.” - Sarah Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251992768-EQENHJGDM5H1AZSWQCFV/lookaround1-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg 2019art - Look Around Series (Copy) Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251995744-A7MPXOAO2AMJDTA52X94/lookaround2-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg 2019art - Look Around Series (Copy) Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252000287-DUE508PPOFDOMN7UZJ7T/lookaround3-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg 2019art - Look Around Series (Copy) Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252003373-QW948B4EL8WQQUUF5OBB/lookaround4-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg 2019art - Look Around Series (Copy) Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252007823-HKS57G0V62GOFVID30D1/lookaround5-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg 2019art - Look Around Series (Copy) Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252014422-62FD53ES9LNKASYGESX1/lookaround6-teighlorrenee-2019.jpg 2019art - Look Around Series (Copy) Look Around Series Artist: Teighlor Renee Anderson 12”x9” Watercolor, Ink In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599322780697-SM0KXF1HTJUSVPHX1PD9/homerecognition-miraclark-2019.jpg 2019art - Home | Recognition (Copy) Home | Recognition Artist: Mira Clark 23”x19” Watercolor and Pen Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert The number 287 is the Royce number corresponding with the 1851 California Indian Treaty negotiated between the Nisenan leaders and Federal agents representing the United States. This Treaty known as the “Camp Union Treaty” was negotiated at the confluence of the Bear and Yuba Rivers. The treaty would have provided a section of land located between Penn Valley and Rough and Ready. Tragically the treaties were never ratified by congress and were hidden away out of sight until found in 1904. This piece features the faces of living Tribal Members, as well as, items and places symbolic to home and recognition for the Nisenan people. This image represents the continued erasure, and broken promises that plague not only the Nisenan people, but Indigenous people all over the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252054896-UAL8DX0Y1NXCLOLLRL0T/transmission-andycerrona-2019.jpg 2019art - Transmission (Copy) Transmission Artist: Andy Cerrona 16”x20” Digital print on Canvas Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council Member Saxon Thomas This art piece shows Saxon Thomas sharing the gift of native language with his children. The Nisenan language is currently being reclaimed and revitalized by the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan and their Non-Profit CHIRP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599251989500-F2P8ZS265FVAAR0VWV1X/Iheardtheirstories-jessahurst-2019.jpg 2019art - I Heard Their Stories (Copy) I Heard Their Stories Artist: Art By Jessa Hurst 12”x24” Acrylic on Wood Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Member Lorena Rose Davis In our interview, Lorena spoke about how so many of her Ancestors’ stories were never passed along, not written down, and lost as her elders past away. She believes that memories can be passed through our genetics and feels hopeful that if her and her remaining relatives pray in ceremony, their ancestors will come and help them remember. Lorena wrote this poem about a young man praying to a sacred fire and being joined by his ancestors, who remind him of the stories of his lineage. In this picture Lorena's grandson, Eddie, is praying to a sacred fire. His grandma stands behind him in support and above her a deer from the land watches over them. This art piece is a vision of the remembering of stories that Lorena hopes for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252038963-MWHDP6BQXBNQWX07GFUT/rememberingravens-milestoland-2019.jpg 2019art - Remembering and Ravens (Copy) Remembering and Ravens Artist: Miles Toland 30”x20” Acrylic on Birch Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert The ravens in the painting symbolize the Nisenan who were tragically mistreated, displaced, and murdered during the greed and entitlement of the Gold Rush. Similarly, the ravens represent the animal kingdom that is currently being exploited, over hunted, underrepresented, and displaced by human lifestyle to the point of extinction. These stories are parallel and are still being written by our hands. How do we nurture the ravens who have broken free? How do we release the ones still captive? Moreover, this painting also speaks to the recent trip that Shelly Covert took to the Kunstkamera Museum in Saint Petersburg to visit a sacred Raven’s cloak and other artifacts that were taken by Russian explorers in the mid 1800’s. “Ravens are an important part of the old Nisenan stories. They struggle and adapt to the modern world as best they can and reflect to me the Tribe's struggle to survive in modern-day America. Ravens mate for life and are family oriented. They are strong and smart and beautiful. Their memories are outstanding. I am honored to have had a couple of Ravens as friends in my life and understand why their feathers were so important in Traditional Feather Regalia. My obsession for this amazing being leads me back to my Nisenan roots and one day I will have my own Raven Feather Regalia to accompany me in dance and ceremony.” –Shelly Covert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252042752-A0CAZS4O8YT0NN39H85C/sacred-mountain-lorilachman-2019.jpg 2019art - Sacred Mountain – ‘estom yanim (Copy) Sacred Mountain – ‘estom yanim Artist: Lori Lachman 11”x14” Photo Transfer Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Spokesperson and Tribal Council Member Shelly Covert “It’s not polite to call it that.” A quote from Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Leader Dutch Rose. “This Mountain is the place of all life, and where we go when we die. Then we ascend to the Milky Way,” said Shelly Covert, Dutch’s granddaughter. This is the place of beginning. This is where we go when we die. This is the gateway to the Milky Way. The Mountain is central in their creation stories and afterlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252032690-3U0L01AQXLOZPC2R5FZS/truenamesp-Bo-2019.jpg 2019art - True Names (Copy) True Names Artist: robert “Bo” Blain 24”X12” Spray Paint on Metal Sign Lawfully acquired aluminum street signs and spray paint. The disruption of indigenous languages as part of a broader infiltration of indigenous culture has been a strategy of empire building societies for ages. If a people lose their language they also lose the stories, memories, spirits, and connections to the land held within their original words and expressions. For the Nisenan the process of forced forgetting was done via various coercive means which forced them to assimilate to the point eventually trying to hide their indigenous identities to avoid discrimination and violence. Another strategy used to erase Nisenan language was the forced placement of Nisenan children into boarding schools where they were further severed from their words, traditions, and place. “Kill the Indian, save the man,” was the moto. A remembering is taking place within the remaining Nisenan who have begun the challenging task of taking back their original language. This graffiti was created to support this Nisenan remembering process and in the spirit of reclaiming the true names, and with them the stories of the original people, of the lands on which we live. pan pakan ( pahn-paw-kawn ) Is the true name for the place now occupied by the municipal incorporation called LAKE WILDWOOD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780405382-6W6EM294W33D5QCXWJ8U/WOMENS+SERIES+%234+FINAL_SMALL.jpg 2019art - Guardians of the Dance (Copy) Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit 3’- wide x 4’ Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780402703-PG4SW6YPD0RN9ZCBHUMR/WOMENS+SERIES+%233+FINAL_SMALL.jpg 2019art - Guardians of the Dance (Copy) Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit 3’- wide x 4’ Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780364709-KMB1EL8A64HRUCJU4G1Q/WOMENS+SERIES+%232+FINAL_SMALL.jpg 2019art - Guardians of the Dance (Copy) Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit , 3’ x 4’ Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780359773-4Y45OKS1QYPADB7TOQSD/WOMENS+SERIES+%231+FINAL_SMALLL.jpg 2019art - Guardians of the Dance (Copy) Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit , 3’ x 4’ Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599780411221-JLUB25DX3BOSOO58CZ7V/BestNightCU-.jpg 2019art - Guardians of the Dance (Copy) Guardians of the Dance Artist: Jenny Hale Watercolor and digital collage on translucent scrim material LED backlit , 3’ x 4’ Collaboration between Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert and local artist Jenny Hale as part of CHIRP’s Visibility through Art Initiative. Series of four images: “Guardians of the Dance” 2019 public art installation in downtown Nevada City. Nisenan female dancers in full dance regalia, layered over a topo map of their ancient Nisenan Homelands. Their headdresses are flicker feathers, bone, and abalone, and they hold a beaded dance belt. Their tattoos are passed on from countless Matriarchal Ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599323246947-K394P5R7JSMOV60RJFVA/puttingtogetherthepieces-leilaniwebb-2019.jpg 2019art - Putting Together the Pieces (Copy) Putting Together the Pieces Artist: Art By Leilani Webb 24”x24” Acrylic and watercolor on wood Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Member Karen McCluskey – descendent of the Rose-Potts family line. Karen has been “Putting Together the Pieces,” to learn her story and heritage. “tukim ne min,” means I love you in Nisenan. She attends classes with her children to learn the language of her Ancestors and help preserve the legacy of her people. When I asked her what she wants others to know about the Nisenan her simple reply spoke volumes, “We’re still here.” She is still here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1599252026630-MU84BNI55D8OH9KDLE2O/loudsilence-chloeyoung-2019.jpg 2019art - Loud Silence (Copy) Loud Silence Artist: Chloe Young 10”x5” Ink and Markers Collaboration with Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Council Member Saxon Thomas This piece is of the ‘estom yanim (Sutter Buttes) with a big fire pit creating dancing smoke that floats up to the sky with the spirit of the wolf and some other forest animals. https://chirpca.org/art-2021 daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627764687022-61OBBZVPKWANEG2RQ7NL/Story+of+Oak_+web.jpeg 2021art - Story of Oak (Copy) Story of Oak Jennifer Rain Crosby 22x30” Handcrafted oak gall inks and egg tempera paints on paper jenniferraincrosby.com Original Sold ($300 for large prints available) The Nisenan lived in harmony with the land for thousands of years before settlers came to California. They cared for the oak groves whose acorns provided a substantial part of their diet. When gold was discovered, immigrant miners and settlers flooded the Nisenan territory, cutting down the trees for lumber, flumes, and for building towns. The loss of the land and the oaks was devastating for the Nisenan. It is my hope that in the near future the Nisenan will regain Federal Recognition, revive their Culture and restore harmony with the land. Special note: The paint and ink in this painting was collected locally and prepared by the artist. The gold and purple-grey tones were made from oak galls. The orange tone was made from earth pigment from the ‘diggins’ in an egg tempera paint. The iridescent gold was made by adding powdered mica to the egg tempera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627764734860-9RSSF8FFKK10NV9UTZN8/Lori_web.jpg 2021art - ‘estom yanim (Copy) ‘estom yanim Lori Lachman lorilachman.smugmug.com 18x24” Framed Photograph Print (Prints for Sale) This sunset photo exemplifies another aspect of this year’s theme, Destruction of the Land | Destruction of the People. ‘estom yanim is the place all life comes from and where the Nisenan go when they die, before finishing the journey in the Milky Way. The most Sacred of places has been privately owned since the 1850s and remains inaccessible to the Nisenan people. This is a prime example of the ongoing destruction of Culture, experience by the Nisenan. Regardless of continued efforts toward Cultural revitalization the inability to access this Sacred place and the inability to burn the dead stand as firm physical deterrents to our people and our Culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360611480-EKUL34EWN29412QKEE8E/AkimAginsky21-0997.jpg 2021art - Apocalypse (Copy) Apocalypse Tanner Connor 12×16" Acrylic Painting Original $400 (Still Available) Mankind has been destroying the Earth for centuries, but not to the scale it is now. With the advancement in our technology over the past 100 years, and the population growing 7 fold, we are polluting the air, water, and land to extremes, killing thousands of creatures on land and our waters daily. With population growth so high, man is destroying so many crucial forests, animals, and insects in its wake to develop land. I paint primarily abstracts, with a variety of techniques. My painting is a representation of the Earth exploding while ghost silhouettes of Nisenan People and animals native to Nevada County look on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363104330-7SVANUFWWUDV4HN6QFW0/AkimAginsky21-1044.jpg 2021art - Earth Guardians ~ Paper & Paint   (Copy) Earth Guardians ~ Paper & Paint   Jenny Hale 46x34” Watercolor painting jennyhaledesign.com Original $1,000 ( Still Available) This watercolor started out as a study for the digital piece “Earth Guardians” But then the guardians just wanted me to finish it and who am I to deny them? The relationship between the photographic image and the painted image is a bridge between digital and analog cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627765335297-K5LOMYYD19E6KU8ST2O8/Earth+Guardians+Final+Wed+copy.jpg 2021art - Earth Guardians (Copy) Earth Guardians Jenny Hale 36X22” Watercolor Painting, Original and Historic Photos, Digital Collage jennyhaledesign.com Original $900 Nisenan still hold the memory that the Earth is our home and our source. For every action there is a reaction and humans are not exempt from this natural system. The Earth Guardians hold up their hearts in protest. Their hands are emblazoned with Ancient symbols found on petroglyphs. Hydraulic Mining began in the Sierra Nevada in the 1850s. All the life in entire forests and mountains, was washed away in the pursuit of gold. The mineral spirits in the stones say STOP – WAKE UP - to our interdependence with life in all its forms or you will not survive. In 1884, one of the first environmental laws in the United States was passed to ban the practice of hydraulic mining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363622726-XN0WJL4AVGNOTNRLWVOH/AkimAginsky21-0980.jpg 2021art - Look Around (Copy) Look Around Teighlor Renee Anderson A Continuing Series 12x9” Watercolor, Ink Part of the CHIRP Collection (Prints for Sale) In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628439133355-67NIRLGONHCR8HYUVXY0/AkimAginsky21-0988.jpg 2021art - Look Around (Copy) Look Around Teighlor Renee Anderson A Continuing Series 12x9” Watercolor, Ink Part of the CHIRP Collection (Prints for Sale) In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628442179337-D8E6VHXNCQUQJB7EY8WL/AkimAginsky21-0992.jpg 2021art - Look Around (Copy) Look Around Teighlor Renee Anderson A Continuing Series 12x9” Watercolor, Ink Part of the CHIRP Collection (Prints for Sale) In history books native people are often referred to in past-tense, though they are still here. Look around. Notice the impact of colonization. Notice the people, plants and animals around you. The Nisenan lived amongst many beings that endured the hardships that came during the Gold Rush, and they themselves did as well. The local language was nearly lost, though here you see plants and animals that persevered, as the resilient Nisenan people of nisem k'auwak' did, with the name they’ve known long before settlers walked this land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360765047-IK53RUB81RT4CBUNGB0U/AkimAginsky21-1004.jpg 2021art - What Remains (Copy) What Remains Kavi Amador (7 years old) 10x12” Colored Pencils & Watercolor Part of the CHIRP Collection Kavi visited 2 locally well known locations: Malakoff Diggins and Hirschman's Pond and drew his impressions. Both are locations radically altered during the mining days. Each is beautiful in its own way, a beauty sullied only by the knowledge of how they arrived at their current form. “At Hirschman’s I saw a spot that looked like where the cliff was blasted away. The cliff of the other side was bare and looked exactly like it looks at Malakoff. There are lots of people at Malakoff and they walk all over. At Hirschman’s people only walk on the trails and more has grown back. Both places are beautiful even though they are destroyed. What I saw inspired me and I felt determined to finish this project.” -Kavi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360799591-6W1F1VEV4O3X7QNIWL15/AkimAginsky21-1011.jpg 2021art - What Remains (Copy) What Remains Kavi Amador (7 years old) 10x12” Colored Pencils & Watercolor Part of CHIRP Collection Kavi visited 2 locally well known locations: Malakoff Diggins and Hirschman's Pond and drew his impressions. Both are locations radically altered during the mining days. Each is beautiful in its own way, a beauty sullied only by the knowledge of how they arrived at their current form. “At Hirschman’s I saw a spot that looked like where the cliff was blasted away. The cliff of the other side was bare and looked exactly like it looks at Malakoff. There are lots of people at Malakoff and they walk all over. At Hirschman’s people only walk on the trails and more has grown back. Both places are beautiful even though they are destroyed. What I saw inspired me and I felt determined to finish this project.” -Kavi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360865955-ES76PPDRRDVR0AIO243T/AkimAginsky21-1017.jpg 2021art - A Choice Between Two Worlds  (Copy) A Choice Between Two Worlds  Alyssa Walz 11x14" Pencil & Ink Original SOLD As this year’s exhibition is themed "Destruction of the Land, Destruction of the People," I thought it would be fitting to highlight an issue that people in the Grass Valley area should know about. Currently, a Canadian mining company seeks to reopen the Idaho Maryland Mine, invading the lives of countless precious wildlife, local residents, and refreshing the wound to Nisenan culture and land with the threat of a revitalized gold rush. This piece depicts two different versions for the future of the Nisenan land and environment surrounding the Idaho Maryland Mine. Centered on the mine silo at the intersection of Brunswick and East Bennett roads, the left side shows how reopening the mine could devastate the air, land, and animal life, whereas the right side shows plant and animal life flourishing should we leave it on its current course to revival. We must not allow history to repeat itself with another destructive gold rush. We must defend our environment and stop the reopening of the Idaho Maryland Mine. For more information, visit: https://www.minewatchnc.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628401375724-F7KDE1CG82MB00GQXM92/AkimAginsky21-1031.jpg 2021art - Northbound (Copy) Northbound Chula Linda Gemignani 24X30” Acrylic on Canvas Instagram @earthlyflight Original $1050 (Still Available) North home of the ancestors, a symbol of perseverance. We are all headed Northbound to be with the ancestors. Hourglass symbolizes the confines and pressure of time for a woman fighting for change and Tribal recognition. It takes a strong will to manifest dreams before the hour of our final breath when we become the memories of our manifestations. Shelly Covert A doula helping the rebirth of her invisible Tribe. A steward, reconnecting her non-native community with their sense of place. Pileated Woodpeckers Ancestors supporting and protecting her Journey Burning hu and shacks in memory of the original descendants of this land whose bodies and homes were burned in ceremony when deceased. Bullard’s Bar Dam and reservoir built over the Sacred burning grounds of many Nisenan lifetimes. Disregarding the life of salmon and life of the Tribe. Witnessing a dam invasively cutting off living waters and so big that it makes a bear look small - we must remember to adjust our perspective, know our place, and remember the ones who came before us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628360999497-9VLC7T1VKPN15PZTECDH/AkimAginsky21-1024.jpg 2021art - ‘ustoma Reborn (Copy) ‘ustoma Reborn Rama Cryer 30x18” Mixed Media, Wood burning, Acrylic, Ink Instagram @old.oak.flow Original SOLD ‘ustoma, Nevada City, is a land once held by many animals, such as the condor and the elk, and beings, many of which are no longer here. Take a walk down the grassy hills as they once were, or perhaps will be, when the original Indigenous caretakers set the land free. Nisenan place names: daspah = Grass Valley 'ustomah = Nevada City nak nak = Camptonville kai'em pakan = Rough & Ready https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628361328883-FQ78SAF7WAAMBH80DS2N/AkimAginsky21-1037.jpg 2021art - Blood in the Water (Copy) Blood in the Water Jarod Kane instagram.com/jarodkane Acrylic on Wood Panel 24x30” Original $600 (Still Available) This piece represents the meeting of two opposing perspectives; value of the environment above all, versus the value of environmental exploitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1627764541341-J7VYZNBOYBEDIW9G106L/webHistorical+Trauma-web.jpg 2021art - Historical Trauma (Copy) Historical Trauma Ron Kenedi 36X48" Oil paint on canvas ronkenediart.com Original $2400 (Still Available) Historical trauma or unresolved grief from massive losses of lives, land, and Culture by American Indigenous peoples from European contact and colonization is the topic of this painting. Using color, (the burnt red at the heart of the work), important animals (birds of prey), natural elements (broken tree branch) and modern, local art (cement cast sculpture) I hope to convey the feeling of how a catastrophic event in the past can negatively influence generations in the present and future. The event, portrayed on the bottom of the painting, is the California gold rush, which destroyed life and Culture of our local Nisenan people and is symbolized by the central images of the broken tree branch sitting on a red field, surrounded by birds of prey. A note of hope is the unbroken sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363223838-GHM1NYQCR2EMQMAEGAMN/AkimAginsky21-1063.jpg 2021art - Aunt Doris (Copy) Aunt Doris Leilani Webb 16x20” Watercolor on Paper Part of the CHIRP Collection Second eldest of the six “Rose” girls. Doris Rose is featured here to celebrate her life as an honored Elder of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628366882814-I8RTPKJEOHL2U4TH2ROZ/Rachel.jpg 2021art - Birdie (Copy) Birdie Rachel Rein & Her Daughter 12 x 12" Digital Drawing Part of the CHIRP Collection This piece uses the likeness of Tribal Elder Alberta “Birdie” Rose Gallez. The format evokes American advertisements, imagining an alternate reality in which the Indigenous Nisenan people are thriving under capitalism. While many oral traditions remain, much of Nisenan traditional practices have been disrupted by colonialism, mirroring the loss of Native fire management techniques. Today Nisenan territory is under risk of catastrophic fire due to the cessation of centuries-old methods of Indigenous forest management. This loss parallels the loss of tradition and land, and the personal wealth her family members could have reaped from them. Birdie serves as a metaphor, highlighting the importance of oral history like those she passed on. The stylized sketching and colors of her skin belie the problematic nature of female product advertising icons, from the Land O Lakes "Indian Maiden" to Aunt Jemima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363716668-993484NWJJ55OOJDO2OL/AkimAginsky21-1087.jpg 2021art - Interwoven (Copy) Interwoven Bishop Randall Instagram @bishop3333 6x5” 3D Lampworked, Sandcarved Glass Part of the CHIRP Collection The design of this piece is replicated from one of the only surviving baskets in Shelly Covert’s family. The inherently clear nature of the medium (glass) is used to represent the loss of culture, language, and continuity, taking on a ghost-like quality. Visibility, or the lack thereof, is brought to light- made visible again. Its recreation stands to bring form, visibility, and magic back to the Nisenan Tribe. Weavers of plants of people weavers of place and memory bound together by time, by rhythm through fiber woven through song story language a tapestry of tongue that passes down from one generation to the next from ear to ear, hand to hand renewed, made visible again this land shaped by ancestors’ word this basket that holds our dreams sequences of interwoven pattern mirrored images infinitely repeating within each knot, within us all https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363335979-BECL5KSLRUHAENZE5BDC/AkimAginsky21-1071.jpg 2021art - Last Harvest (Copy) Last Harvest Jose Dominguez 36x48” Oil on Canvas thebuilders.tumblr.com Original $600 (Still Available) This piece, “last harvest” is a still life of objects that symbolize colonization and the destruction of the land and the Indigenous people that lived here. The oak is depicted as a freshly cut stump by a modern chainsaw which sits on its surface, demonstrating the destruction of old growth oaks that were centuries old. By cutting down so many old growth forests not only did the Nisenan lose the food they provided, but nature lost its unique original architecture. A good portion of their diet consisted of acorns. In “History of Us” Richard B Johnson explains that an average adult would consume roughly 500-1000 lbs of acorns a year and Nevada City would need about twelve thousand producing oak trees to feed the village. The baskets allude to the people of this region that skillfully crafted them. Many of the creators of the baskets are no longer here, but their descendants still re https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363887747-D35Y4R3ZHMTU3IMAS1HG/AkimAginsky21-1055.jpg 2021art - The Land is The Gold (Copy) The Land is The Gold Jessa Hurst & Mira Clark existinspired.com Acrylic and Food Wrappers on Canvas 36x48” Original Sold - Prints available This piece is about the exploitation of the land for profit instead of seeing it for its intrinsic beauty and value. The Nisenan people, had a very different view of, and relationship to the environment here. Mining the sacred ‘Uba, “Yuba” for its gold was a colonial settler mindset. This piece is meant to not only bring awareness to the way the land has been mistreated in the past, it also symbolizes the way in which more awareness is needed today with how we are relating to the land, animals, water, and specifically the Yuba. The Yuba river has become a hotspot for much tourism and social interaction. It is important to be aware of how we interact with this land as we visit the Yuba. We created this piece as a ritual and a prayer that people who visit the Yuba do so with mindfulness and respect, leaving no trace and taking care of this beautiful watershed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628364050961-YFHV3WMR7Q6US4NVYQ21/AkimAginsky21-1049.jpg 2021art - The Land is The Gold (Copy) The Land is The Gold Jessa Hurst & Mira Clark existinspired.com Food Wrappers on Wood with Epoxy Resin 16x24” This piece is about the exploitation of the land for profit instead of seeing it for its intrinsic beauty and value. The Nisenan people, had a very different view of, and relationship to the environment here. Mining the sacred ‘Uba, “Yuba” for its gold was a colonial settler mindset. This piece is meant to not only bring awareness to the way the land has been mistreated in the past, it also symbolizes the way in which more awareness is needed today with how we are relating to the land, animals, water, and specifically the Yuba. The Yuba river has become a hotspot for much tourism and social interaction. It is important to be aware of how we interact with this land as we visit the Yuba. We created this piece as a ritual and a prayer that people who visit the Yuba do so with mindfulness and respect, leaving no trace and taking care of this beautiful watershed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363731240-TEE9NFN11U2HT8BND89D/Andres1.jpg 2021art - Washed Away   (Copy) Washed Away   Andrés Amador 24”x36” Mixed, Natural Materials, Photography, Video AndresAmadorArts.com 3 Print Set: $780 In this artwork a traditional Nisenan basket-weaving motif is painted with clay onto a granite slab on the bank of the Yuba river, symbolizing the connection of earth and the Native people. The painting gets washed away by a pump fire extinguisher and a bucket using water from the Yuba, reproducing the total collapse of Culture and environmental systems through the destruction caused by mining (in this case hydraulic mining) to the land and the people. Watch a video of the artwork being washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363739053-3JDL82468G1CTX5GTHXY/Andres2.jpg 2021art - Washed Away   (Copy) Washed Away   Andrés Amador (1) 24”x36”, (2) 12”x16” Mixed, Natural Materials, Photography, Video AndresAmadorArts.com 3 Print Set: $780 In this artwork a traditional Nisenan basket-weaving motif is painted with clay onto a granite slab on the bank of the Yuba river, symbolizing the connection of earth and the Native people. The painting gets washed away by a pump fire extinguisher and a bucket using water from the Yuba, reproducing the total collapse of Culture and environmental systems through the destruction caused by mining (in this case hydraulic mining) to the land and the people. Watch a video of the artwork being washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628363747915-QMEZFNXR7QTLT75VNE76/Andres3.jpg 2021art - Washed Away   (Copy) Washed Away   Andrés Amador (1) 24”x36”, (2) 12”x16” Mixed, Natural Materials, Photography, Video AndresAmadorArts.com 3 Print Set: $780 In this artwork a traditional Nisenan basket-weaving motif is painted with clay onto a granite slab on the bank of the Yuba river, symbolizing the connection of earth and the Native people. The painting gets washed away by a pump fire extinguisher and a bucket using water from the Yuba, reproducing the total collapse of Culture and environmental systems through the destruction caused by mining (in this case hydraulic mining) to the land and the people. Watch a video of the artwork being washed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628367287954-C8DR3XV0T0AAPO5OQFYT/217873991_2958185701104856_1119618592471648225_n.jpg 2021art - Still Here (Copy) Still Here Andres Amador AndresAmadorArts.com Yuba Rocks painted with Clay Inspired by Nisenan Petroglyph Designs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1629575952215-YRLXG4XNDATSHMDXUMOW/Weit%2C+Simone+web.jpg 2021art - Reciprocity (Copy) Reciprocity Simone Star 16x20” Acrylic, Oil, and Gold Leaf simonestar.com Original Sold - Prints available Prior to colonization and genocide, the Nisenan people lived in reciprocity and balance with the natural world. Historical depictions and representations of Nevada County glorify the “Gold Rush” culture while ignoring the violence committed by white colonizers towards both the land, animals, and original inhabitants. This piece seeks to depict the contrast between the ways that the Nisenan people lived in sustainable and harmonious relationship with the land, and the exploitation and brutality of the gold rush. On one side the image depicts an open hand in an act of giving and receiving as it touches the arc of a clear ‘Uba (Yuba) river filled with abundant gold. The other side of the image portrays a closed fist grabbing at the last remaining gold in a polluted river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628889243904-U61AVHW2HP66HW6ZN78H/IMG_7194.jpeg 2021art - Real Value (Copy) Real Value Mira Clark Existinspired.com Sand from the Yuba River, Gold Acorn, Gold Pan What is truly valuable? How do we determine the value of the Earth? The oak trees provided the majority of calories for the Nisenan People. The value of the land, the forest, and the health of our natural environments should be prioritized. These resources are Sacred because they sustain all life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a3b058318b27d4562ee47f1/1628889247909-4RV1WDCJKN5DS6Q381KE/IMG_7189.jpeg 2021art - Part of the ‘Uba Seo VTA Window Display (Copy) Part of the ‘Uba Seo VTA Window Display We are invited to consider: the impact humans have on the environment and the long-lasting devastation of the gold rush on the Nisenan People. What is truly valuable? How do we determine the value of the Earth? The oak trees provided the majority of calories for the Nisenan People. The value of the land, the forest, and the health of our natural environments should be prioritized. 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