SF de Young Museum exhibit explores indigenous views on climate change

The new "Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California's South Coast Range" exhibit at the de Young Museum explores indigenous views on climate change.The faces and voices filling the theater as part of a new exhibit at San Francisco's deYoung Museum are members of native communities indigenous to California. Their unique perspective and urgent warnings about climate change are captured in both moving pictures and still portraits by photographer Kirti Bassendine.

"They believe that the climate change is a depletion of Mother Earth and its resources. And they are the stewards of this land, you know, so I think that's a really important message when we talk about climate change," Bassendine said.The exhibit is called "Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California's South Coast Range." Bassendine hopes the subjects will translate their wisdom to a wider audience.

"I think, you know, the era we're living with the technology and the fast pace that we live in, it's very easy to forget about our connection as human beings," she said. We first met one of the subjects, Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez, during a report in the fire ravaged Santa Cruz mountains. That's where Chairman Lopez and other members of the Amah Mutsun where sharing native knowledge about ceremonial burns, and managing healthier forests."Our history does not start with the missions, or people who were here for thousands of years.

The "Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California's South Coast Range" exhibits opens the first weekend in October at the de Young. Admission is free.

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