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Dedicated to the support of Native California elders and culture bearers in the transmission of cultural legacy; the perpetuation of the overall California Indian Conference; and the preservation of Native California archives and cultural sites.The specific purpose of the Corporation shall include without limitation the sponsorship, implementation,logistical, and/or financial support of: 1. Research and documentation projects focused on the history and cultures of the Native peoplesindigenous to present-day California past, present, and future, and the public dissemination ofinformation and knowledge about the same;2. Archival projects focused on best practice cataloguing, digitization, curation, storage, andpreservation of artifacts, audiovisual materials, records, news reports, internet content, email andsocial media communications featuring the history and cultures of Native Californians past, present,and future;3. The perpetuation of the overall California Indian Conference, established in 1985 as the sole forumfor the sharing of knowledge, scholarship, and issues of importance related to Native California;4. Cultural skills, foodways, and materials classes, workshops, presentations, and program series, withan emphasis on those taught by individuals who learned from elders practicing the older ways in thefullness of their old-time cultural context;5. Projects focused on the research, documentation, restoration, revitalization, and renewal of CaliforniaIndian cultural skills and foodways in need of reawakening; and6. Promotion of best-practice preservation of isolated, unprotected cultural sites on public and privatelands.
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