Language Is Life, Land is Sacred

Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellow Vincent Medina is a Chochenyo Ohlone Native American who is a part of a young generation working to revitalize the Chochenyo language for future generations.  Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellow Isabella Zizi is a young native-american environmentalist shaped by the 2012 Chevron Refinery Explosion and by her indigenous women elders in the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks in the Bay Area of California.

Featuring

Vincent Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone, Language and Culture Activist, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow  
Gabriel Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone  
Dottie Galvan, Chochenyo Ohlone Elder
Cathy G., Chochenyo Ohlone Elder
Isabella Zizi, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow,  Idle No More SF Bay Organizer, Youth Director Earth Guardians Bay Area
Alison Ehara Brown, Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty Signer, Idle No More SF Bay Founder
Daniel Adel, California Student Sustainability Coalition Online Communications Coordinator
Rich Lohman, Healing Walk Volunteer
Patricia St. Onge, Idle No More SF Bay Nafsi Ya Jamii
Donovin Keomanee, Healing Walk Monitor/Volunteer