Life in the Arts - Native American Baskets

Ohlone Native American descendant and historian Linda Yamane gives a lesson in the art of basket weaving.

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LINDA YAMANE,Ohlone basketweaver, singer and storyteller, traces her ancestry to the Rumsien Ohlone, the native people of the Monterey area. She has been active in researching and retrieving Rumsien language, song, folklore and basketry. Traditions that were once thought lost. Linda works as a freelance writer, illustrator and graphic designer, and is the newsletter editor for the California Indian Basketweavers Association. She is also a contributing editor to News From Native California magazine.

Linda is the author of Weaving a California Tradition and co-author of In Full View- Three ways of Seeing California Plants. She has researched, compiled and illustrated two collections of Ohlone stories, When the World Ended, How Hummingbird Got Fire & How People Were Made and The Snake That Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains & Other Ohlone Stories.

Her thirty years of experience in enrichment education has included training classes for teachers and docents throughout the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas, six years as an outdoor education teacher for the Youth Science Institute in San Jose, classroom programs and school assemblies, GATE art teacher for San Jose Unified School District, guest speaker in College and university courses, and UC Santa Cruz Extension Instructor.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ohlone
• baskets
• weaving
• Native
• American
• digging
• sedge
• art
• lesson
• Linda
• Yamani

[NancyToday]

I watched this a long time ago, but have learned much more about basketry since then. Now when I watched it I realized I have a sedge meadow and can probably find root like you have. I love your teaching method! Thanks for making this video!

[dagmoon]

Wonderful!

[duneduder]

Linda is a local hero of the most cultural, artistic, conservational sense. My choice for Governor.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!