News From Native California Volume 31, Issue 3 | Page 4

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Brittani Orona (Hoopa Valley Tribe) is
a Ph.D. student at UC Davis in Native
American studies with a designated
emphasis in human rights. Her work
focuses on the history of indigenous
environmental justice and centers
itself in Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk per-
spectives of land, space, and time. Julie Cordero-Lamb is a traditional
Chumash herbalist and the founder
of the Syuxtun Plant Mentorship
Collective, through which knowledge-
able practitioners from several Chu-
mash tribal organizations develop
partnerships with land agencies and
work to return health to land and
indigenous people.
Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone Costanoan
Esselen Nation of California) is a poet
who was born in Los Angeles to an
Esselen/Chumash father and a
mother of French ancestry. She grew
up in Washington State and earned
a B.S. in teaching moderate special-
needs children from Wheelock College
in 1983 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Eng-
lish from the University of Washing-
ton. She is the author of the memoir
Bad Indians, published by Heyday. Bring Back the Good Fires, p. 14
Jared Dahl Aldern has collaborated
with Native American tribes through-
out California on historical ecology
research, cultural burning, water-
shed restoration, and educational
initiatives. He has taught American
Indian history at Palomar College, San
Diego State University, and Stanford
University.
Bring Back the Good Fires, p. 14
Acorn, p. 8
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Tyler Peyron (Tule River Reservation)
received bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the Institute of Ameri-
can Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
Water Song, p. 9
Teresa Romero is a traditional Chu-
mash practitioner who participates
with the Syuxtun Plant Mentorship
Collective and has worked on tribal
restoration projects in both Michigan
and California for nearly twenty years.
Bring Back the Good Fires, p. 14
Tima Lotah Link (Shmuwich Chumash)
designs News from Native California,
but in between issues she takes time
to weave, go on adventures, and hang
out with elders. And if only she could
cook, Tima is pretty sure she’d figure
out how to make acorn lasagna noodles.
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Beverly R. Ortiz, Ph.D., is a cultural
services coordinator for East Bay
Regional Park District, ethnographic
consultant, and freelance writer
living in the East Bay.
Ron Goode, p. 18
Making Magic, p. 10
Lynn Jeffries has been a member
of Cornerstone Theater since 1986,
and has designed sets, costumes,
or puppets for over sixty productions.
She has built puppets, dramturged,
designed, and puppeteered on
numerous projects, including The
Mother of All Enemies, The Abecedar-
ium, The Adventures of White-Man,
and the film Dante’s Inferno. She
has also performed solo shadow
puppet shows in nightclubs with
the neo-vaudevillian folk/jazz band
The Ditty Bops.
Making Magic, p. 10
Sierra Watt (Pechanga Band of
Luiseño Indians) holds a certificate in
indigenous studies and is a political
science doctoral student at the Uni-
versity of Kansas, where her research
focuses on women’s leadership in
tribal governments, and managing
editor of the journal Native American
and Indigenous Studies.
Review: Resurrecting the Past, p. 27
Ishmael Elias (Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma) is an active member of
the Native American Journalists Asso-
ciation. He holds an M.F.A. in Eng-
lish from Mills College, a B.A. in