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Food for Medicine Benefit

Mateel Community Center

The nonprofit Native Health in Native Hands of the Wailaki Tribe in Southern Humboldt, invites communities from Humboldt and surrounding Counties to the Food for Medicine Benefit.

Special guests include well-known Indigenous musicians and educators, Dr. Lyla June and Desirae Harp, along with Native Health in Native Hands Development Director, Brian Dykstra, an avid farmer, botanist and native bee educator.

Lyla June channels activism through her powerful music of song and prayer for Indigenous rights, inter-cultural healing, and global love. Her music, messages and community organizing stem from a Human Ecology degree at Stanford and a PhD on pre-colonial Indigenous Nation land stewardships, emphasizing the abundant food systems once created for humans, habitats, and ecosystems. June’s powerful wisdom of perspective and presence around the world is a crucial element to climate, food, and human sustainability. Her practical and positive solutions continue to communally create a healthier and brighter outlook.

Desirae Harp also travels as a singer/songwriter, educator and community organizer as an activist in Native cultural revitalization. Harp is active in programs and campaigns to restore California waterways with the intention of reviving salmon runs to help restore Indigenous ways of life. Her advocacy for Indigenous Peoples to take the lead with California’s discussion on climate change is not just for social justice, but to implement necessary ecological change for human survival.

Founded in 2021, Native Health in Native Hands’ exponential momentum has brought forth collaborations like The US Forest Service and Briceland Volunteer Fire Department in efforts to prevent devastating wildfires.

For Native Health in Native Hands to continue efforts of revitalizing Indigenous culture and a sustainable environment, our future and ongoing projects need the means to train burn crews, acquire tools, land and people’s time. Collectively, our communities can support each other through combined efforts and restore balance for generations to come.

Donations are welcomed!

DATES/TIMES

WHERE

• Mateel Community Center

PRICE

• Free