Adventure Lightning Talk – Downtown Santa Cruz

Go on an adventure with eight Santa Cruz strangers. Adventures in surfing and the Watsonville Brown Berets. Adventures in art cars and bike trips to Mexico City. Hear these creative, personal and [...]

Esri UC Tribal / Indigenous Tract Presentation I am truly honored to have been able to speak at this year’s ESRI User Conference in San Diego. I did feel like I was an outlier in all of the [...]

Herman Fillmore of the Washoe Tribe translated “keep Tahoe blue” into Wašiw , the language of the Washoe people whose land originally included Lake Tahoe (DaɁaw).

Wayne Marci (DANM ’15) will be presenting a poster on his DANM research into visualizing data for the Data Science Afternoon on Friday, February 27. Wayne’s data includes all Native [...]

April 23rd – 26th, 2015 University of California, Santa Cruz

After reflecting on my findings of the compiled treaty data, what I really wanted to see were the Tribes that had over 10 treaties each by year. This is one of the end results of that data. [...]

The words are much more than words however, the words are seizure of lands, places, spiritual areas. My Lakota friend, Sinte Numpa, and I then began to geocode every treaty’s location. During the [...]

After reflecting on my findings of the compiled data, I realized that these words were a part of manifesting what is now America. The above flag displays the most used verbs with its  associated [...]