Temecula Celebrates Native American Heritage Month In November

TEMECULA, CA — The City of Temecula will be announcing a proclamation for Native American Heritage Month on Thursday, they announced this week.

Students from Great Oak High School will make a formal presentation about Native American Heritage Month at the next regularly scheduled city council meeting, according to the Race, Equity, and Inclusion Commission's agenda.

Other Native American Heritage Month events schedule for Temecula include:

Pechanga Pu'éska Mountain Day:
Wed, Nov 15th at 4:30 p.m. at Temecula City Hall, located at 41000 Main Street.

"Join us as we commemorate the profound ways in which the Pechanga Tribe, Temecula’s first peoples, has shaped the community’s character and heritage, and to thank the Tribe for saving Pu'éska Mountain and, in doing so, protecting the quality of life in Temecula."

Temecula Valley Museum Art Mural Project:
Wed, Nov 8th at 5 p.m. at Sam Hicks Monument Park - 28314 Mercedes Street.

"Unveiling of a mural designed by artist Gerry Ceja and painted by Pechanga Chámmakilawish School Students, titled ‘Plants - Our Medicine’, a representation of plants as a resource to the ‘Atáaxum (the people)."

Temecula Public Library Literature Display:
All of November, the Ronald H. Roberts Temecula Public Library –located at 30600 Pauba Road, will feature a variety of Native American literature, in a display at the front of the library.

Pechanga has also established the “Great Oak Press” in order to provide an avenue by which Native voices and topics of significance and importance to Native Americans could find their way into contemporary discourse and become both a growing and permanent part of recorded knowledge.

Learn more here: GreatOakPress.com