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Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 2006/07

FEATURES

Winnemem Wintu Puberty Ceremony:
More Than Just Becoming a Woman 
Text and photographs by Jan Stürmann

Uses of Oak as Shared by Josephine Peters
Beverly R. Ortiz

Building the Dream: Suscol Intertribal Council’s Living Museum
Charlie Toledo

Seventh Annual Southern Storytelling Festival
Lauren Teixeira, with photographs by Ira Nowinski

Historic Ceremony Held at the San Gabriel Mission
Carol Ramirez and Brother Joshua Seidl

Sixteenth Annual Basketweavers’ Gathering
Shannon Brawley, with photographs by Dugan Aguilar and Jennifer Kalt

First People: Estanislao
William Bauer

FOUR SEASONS: WINTER

(Illustration by Frank LaPena)
            New Year’s Day, by Janice Gould
            Winter Beginning, Winter Ending, by Sylvia Ross
            Petroglyph, by Deborah Miranda
            Winter Moon, by Shaunna Oteka McCovey
            Winter Comes, by Georgiana Sanchez
            Ode to Winter, by Richard Stewart
            Frost, by Greg Sarris

IN EVERY ISSUE

Books:
Indian Baskets of Central California: Art, Culture, and History, reviewed by Sherrie Smith-Ferri
The Zen of La Llorona, reviewed by Sylvia Ross

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Heyday Institute News and Updates

Groundhog Day:
Significant Changes in Indian Probate Effective June 2006
Michele Fahley and Dorothy Alther

Big Times/Little Times: Award Created in Memory of Linguist
Kim Hogeland

Calendar of Events

With Respect:
Helen “Duda” Brown (1938–2005)  Beverly R. Ortiz
Lily Baker (1911–2006) Beverly R. Ortiz, with Mountain Maidu prayer
contributed by Farrell Cunningham