Tamejavi

On April 13, 2007, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began a series of raids in Madera, California. It is estimated that ICE detained over 25 undocumented indigenous immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, in their homes that morning, leaving their families and the community of Madera devastated. In In Search of a Future, people from Madera express their fears of being separated from their families and speak of the trials of living in a country that resists acknowledging their contributions and labels them as criminals.

This memory book narrates the experience of a group of immigrant women Hmong, Lao, Mexican, Salvadorean and Mixtec immigrant women as they engage in building interethnic relationships and try to create one community in the ethnically diverse Central Valley.

These women became authors in telling their own stories about how they came together to express their own voices, find new ways of building relationships and overcoming barriers.

Seven Central Valley youth share their powerful stories of culture, oppression, self - identity and hope in digital stories they wrote and directed. Using photographs, musical pieces, and artwork along with other forms of media, these stories illustrate the major issues facing this new generation today.

Representing a culturally diverse blend of views, the youth featured in Sharing Our Silence come from Mixtec, Hmong, Mexican and African-American/Hawaiian backgrounds.

This memory book - or memoria - describes the cultural dialogues between California Native Americans and indigenous Mexicans living in the Central Valley. Participating communities include indigenous Mexicans (Mixtecs, P'urhepechas, Otomi, Yaqui, among others), along with Native Americans (Mono, Wukchumni, Chumash, among others).

The book celebrates the resistance of indigenous peoples against the long history of oppression and dominance by colonizers. Indigenous peoples have endured over 500 years of colonization and yet there is evidence of many thriving communities, cultures and traditions throughout the Americas.

This memoria documents the dialogues and conversations that took place at a symposium held in the summer of 2004, where the key topic areas discussed included Culture and Development, Territory and Mobility, with an emphasis on the need to promote active citizenship, cultural understanding, and further collaboration.