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California Native American Day

People at the California Native American Day celebration at CSUSB on Sept. 27.
September 30, 2024

California Native American Day, celebrated annually on the fourth Friday of September, is a day to honor California’s indigenous people, an opportunity to learn about Native American culture and a time for people of all cultures to reflect on and remember their traditions.

Photo of the 2022 California Native American Day event at CSUSB.
September 20, 2024

The celebration, free and open to the public, caps the week-long California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference, which will see more than 1,500 elementary school students and their teachers from throughout the Inland Empire visit the campus to learn firsthand about California’s Native American culture, history and customs.

Photo from the 2022 California Native American Day celebration.
September 18, 2023

The celebration, free and open to the public, caps the week-long California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference, which will see more than 1,500 elementary school students and their teachers from throughout the Inland Empire visit the campus to learn firsthand about California’s Native American culture, history and customs.

A woman speaking on stage to a crowd of people at CSUSB on California Native American Day
September 26, 2022

Attendees learned about Native American music, art and food of the Native peoples in this region at the free event on Friday, Sept. 23.

Members of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians at the 2019 California Native American Day.
September 19, 2022

Attendees will learn about Native American music, art and food of the Native peoples in this region at the free event on Friday, Sept. 23, starting at 6 p.m.

September 18, 2019

More than 1,500 elementary school children and their teachers will learn about California’s Native American culture, history and customs as part of the weeklong California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference to be held at CSUSB Sept. 23-27.

September 15, 2017

The weeklong conference that begins Monday, Sept. 18, is a prelude to the 18th Annual California Native American Day celebration on Friday, Sept. 22, at the CSUSB Lower Commons.

California Native American Day
September 27, 2018

California Native American Day is the final event of the annual California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference for area elementary school children that began on Sept. 24.

January 24, 2019

CSUSB has appointed Native American educator and advocate Vincent Whipple as the university’s newly created director of Tribal Relations to increase the college-going rates and success of Native American students.