Author Archives: Erik Gordon Bainbridge

About Erik Gordon Bainbridge

Erik Gordon Bainbridge lives in Northern California and writes about virtual worlds under his avatar name Apollo Manga. He is on the board of directors of the Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin and on the Board of Trustees of SilverPen.org.

Big Time Festival at Kule Loklo

The annual Big Time Festival is at Kule Loklo tomorrow, July 21, 2012, the 32nd year that this popular annual festival has been held.  It will feature Northern California Indian dancing, skills demonstrators, and vendors. Kule Loklo is a replica … Continue reading

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MAPOM blog

The Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin (MAPOM) now has a blog: blog.mapom.com. MAPOM offers California Indian skills classes, sells and publishes books about California Indian history and culture, and created the replica Coast Miwok Indian village Kule Loklo in Point … Continue reading

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Celebration of Life for Sylvia Thalman (1927-2012)

Yesterday a Celebration of Life was held for Sylvia Thalman, bringing together Sylvia’s family, California Indians, members of the Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin (www.mapom.com), the National Park Service, and others whose lives Sylvia had touched. Sylvia, who died in … Continue reading

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Art of the Americas

This coming weekend February 24-26 is the 28th annual Marin Show: Art of the Americas. This show with its over 200 exhibitors is for anyone with an interest in indigenous art and historical items from North, Central, and South America. … Continue reading

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Buy a pizza, help a museum

The Marin Museum of the American Indian needs your help.   One way to help is by buying a pizza. Hidden away in the North Marin community of Novato, California, this little-known museum is on the site of an actual … Continue reading

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Coast Miwoks – a brief history

If you’ve seen the Ewoks, the furry creatures in Star Wars living in a redwood forest like much of the Coast Miwoks‘ home territory, you’ve seen an insulting caricature of non-Indian perceptions of Coast Miwoks.  The truth is very different.  … Continue reading

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California Indians

Warrior Brothers‘ main character Cody Jackson is a California Indian who was born in space and has never been to Earth.  His father is Coast Miwok and his mother Kashia Pomo, neither of them tribes that are well known outside … Continue reading

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