Nisenan Heritage Day – Saturday, October 13th, 2012

The indigenous people of Nevada County, the Nisenan of the Nevada City Rancheria, along with the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP), invite the public to celebrate the first ever Nisenan Heritage Day on Saturday, October 13th, 2012, at the Miners Foundry Cultural Center in Nevada City. “The Nevada City Rancheria and CHIRP are hosting this event to foster community relationships, to share Nisenan culture, and to preserve the true and correct history of the original people of this land,” says Shelly Covert, Secretary of the Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Council.