Cordage Making Workshop

​In community with our plant and earth relatives, learn the ancestral practice of making cordage with tule and dog bane like the ancestors. Check out this video for a glimpse of the beauty of this traditional process!

​Lunch and materials are provided, please bring a knife and water bottle.

​Inviting Indigenous and the greater community to learn with us.

• ​Work with materials used to make a tule canoe.

• ​Events are free and limited to 40 participants.

• ​More details once registered

• ​12 and under must be accompanied by an adult

​About the Instructor:

​Edward Willie, a true Native of California—Pomo, Wintu, Paiute, and Wailaki—is a native ecologist and Traditional Ecological Knowledge keeper in the realms of traditional skills, permaculture, basket weaving, herbalism, and regalia-making. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Native Studies, Redbird continued a self-education fueled by his desire to uncover and rekindle the cultural earth-based knowledge of California Indians. Also an artist—drawing, painting, and sculpture—Redbird has been a core organizer of the annual Buckeye Gathering, a gathering in support of ancestral arts held in Northern California.