https://indigenoustorytelling.com/home daily 1.0 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/1d3f4805-5e10-4e10-be77-8681719fd8e1/IMG_6431.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/0b2154fc-e105-4cdd-94fb-c59c17322be7/IMG_5710.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/d0dc0d5e-91e6-4492-843c-127aee0c95dd/IMG_6428.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/8e63da47-0cc1-4a0f-96be-1de800073e49/IMG_6436.jpg Home https://indigenoustorytelling.com/menilandherheart daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/159b7790-9078-42b2-ab38-232d4e54ce77/Dragon+Kim+Foundation+2019+-+Finals+-+2-47.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/173f0505-30ae-4585-af8e-32cca839b1aa/Dragon+Kim+Foundation+2019+-+Finals-170.jpg Menil and Her Heart - Menil and Her Heart Menil and Her Heart is the recipient of the Yale University Young Native Playwright Award. Isabella first wrote Menil and Her Heart when she was sixteen years old as a cultural revitalization effort because she recognized a wisdom in Cahuilla stories that could be applied to the invisible epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People. Menil and Her Heart subverts this narrative of violent erasure by centering the relationship of two Cahuilla sisters. Some of Menil and Her Heart’s most notable performances have occurred at Yale University and the California State Capital in 2023, where the cast performed for members of the legislature in an event that culminated in $12 million of program funding to address the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons. When Isabella was seventeen, she visited the United Nations headquarters to speak about the play she had written and directed. In an effort to expand this telling and the impact of this story because of interest from the community, Isabella and Sophia are now planning to co-direct Menil and Her Heart the short film. Menil and Her Heart the film follows two teenage sisters, Nesune and Menil. When Menil vanishes without a trace from their home on the Cahuilla reservation, and her family receives no help from local law enforcement, Nesune embarks on an interdimensional journey to find and bring justice for her missing sister. Transported to an ancient world where the Cahuilla stories that became buried in Nesune’s memory long ago are real, Nesune must find the wisdom in the old stories to save herself and her sister. https://indigenoustorytelling.com/wildflowerindigenousspirit daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/17c017c0-1bc5-4bb1-9a5a-15049e653871/tempImageBJDDVr.jpg Wildflower: Indigenous Spirit https://indigenoustorytelling.com/dragonfly daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/c23d5412-63cc-4306-af66-0d757f195741/tempImagepuK72F.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/3f818526-ddf4-41bb-ac13-8848894f09ee/tempImage5V336N.jpg https://indigenoustorytelling.com/our-vision daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/52325c65-bee5-45ea-978f-4c832f4bb578/tempImageL0HmRF.jpg Our Vision - The Indigenous Storytelling Movement. The Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit is dedicated to uplifting Indigenous voices and stories through art, culture, and advocacy efforts through theater, film, and arts and culture workshops. Indigenous Storytelling was born out of the lack of Native representation in the arts, Native representation being virtually non-existent at less than 0.7% of film. This lack of Native representation goes beyond not just seeing Native faces is the media because our defining stories are also missing from the national narrative. Storytellers hold a great power. Stories shape the identity of a people. They can call up great amount of strength, but they can also be the unwitting tools of oppression. The mainstream narrative is missing a vital piece for the indigenous experience. It is missing our stories. These stories are about the survival of our culture and our people. Revitalizing an Indigenous worldview in Native communities and finding solutions to contemporary struggles can be facilitated through understanding these traditional stories in the context of today. The purpose of The Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit is to inspire Indigenous youth to tell their stories and uncover these unacknowledged, and vital, narratives. https://indigenoustorytelling.com/luke-madrigal daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da1f4fac29a56f87899c5c/ae14584d-9de0-4500-ace3-7a956822f597/Unknown-8.jpeg Luke Madrigal - The Legacy The Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit was founded by Sophia Madrigal in honor of her father, Luke Madrigal (1959-2020), a Bird Singer and cultural carrier who played a key role in revitalizing the Cahuilla Bird Songs, which tell the creation and migration stories of the Cahuilla people. It is in Luke’s spirit of cultural revitalization and authenticity that the nonprofit celebrates the convergence of art and Indigenous wisdom. Luke Madrigal was one of three young men who joined with elders to revitalize the dying art of Cahuilla Bird Songs. He taught a generation of Cahuilla people, and his passion for Bird Singing significantly contributes to the flourishing of the Cahuilla Bird Songs today. 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