The California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center

Piper Proudfit, Payomkawichum and Tongva, is the daughter of Dr. Joely Proudfit, who chairs the CIMCC board and works to bring California Indian peoples to the center of film and television, insisting that these stories deserve the screen and not just the archive shelf.

She is wearing wearable art by Yurok designer Shoshoni Hostler.

Every bead in this piece carries a story. This is California Indian design moving forward on its own terms, carried by the people born into it.

Read more about Piper, Dr. Proudfit, and Shoshoni, along with the full California Indian Dreamin' story.

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Three mothers built something that lasted 30 years; now their daughters are wearing it.

Piper Proudfit (Payomkawichum and Tongva), Jayden Lim (Pomo/Miwok), and Olivia Hostler (Hupa) photographed inside the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in California Indian couture by Yurok designer Shoshoni Hostler.

These are not symbolic choices; these are the daughters of the women who built this place. This is what inheritance looks like when it's showcased through people, not glass cases.

The California Indian Dreamin' issue.
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The June 5 edition of the American Indian Review is here!

In this newsletter, we highlight the American Indian/AIS Graduate Honoring Ceremony held on May 15, where we celebrated and uplifted our graduates, as well as the Indigi-licious cooking workshop held on May 30, where Native youth came together to learn, cook, and connect through Indigenous foodways.

Read the full newsletter to catch up on these special CICSC moments! https://canva.link/vxakt39lq28d2lj

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Every artist we featured in the California Indian Dreamin' issue named the women who came before them. Without hesitation. Their mothers. Their grandmothers. Their aunties. Their teachers.

Who made your creative life possible?

We want to know. Drop her name in the comments. Let's fill this thread with the women who never got a byline but made everything. 👇

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Photo: Dr. Joely Proudfit with her daughter Piper Tawpash Proudfit (wearing Shoshoni Hostler's designs)

"This is what dreaming looks like when it has roots."

That's the line that wrote this issue.

Every story inside the California Indian Dreamin' issue, every artist, every museum, every garment, every family, came back to this. What does it mean to dream inside a living inheritance?

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Photo: CIMCC Executive Director Nicole Myers-Lim

She wore a beaded garment on a stage no one built for her. So she built it herself. 🌿

Shoshoni Hostler's wearable art is in the California Indian Dreamin' issue, and it will change the way you think about fashion, sovereignty, and what it means to dress with intention.

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Model: Jayden Lim; designs by Shoshoni Hostler