SoCal Native American POW WOW (CSULB)

SeeCalifornia.com; Xochitl, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Associated Press

SoCal Intertribal Pow Wow promenade dance, CSULB March 12, 2016 (T.Mei/Wisdom Quarterly)

LONG BEACH: Annual Cal State Puvungna Powwow, March 12-13

(California State University, Long Beach) Open to the public, all are welcome. Admission and parking are FREE. Dancers and drums are welcome! The largest spring event of its kind in Southern California, the Pow Wow at Cal State Long Beach is focused on displaying the university’s strong American-Indian presence. We strongly recommend spectators to bring folding chairs.

The two-day event, which will feature American Indian dancing, arts, crafts, and food begins at 1100 am each day and runs until 10:00 pm on Saturday and 7:00 pm on Sunday. In addition to contests and inter-tribal dancing, there will be gourd dancing with dancer registration closing at 2:00 pm on Saturday, March 12. All dancers and drums are invited. Native foods such as stew, Navajo tacos, [deadly] fry bread, and Indian burgers will be on sale at the event, and American Indian vendors will be selling both traditional and contemporary American Indian art.

• Cal State University, Long Beach
• 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA
• Info: (562) 985-8528
• csulb.edu/powwow

INYO: Taatsawano Traditional Gathering May 28-30, 2016
Native Crafts and Food Booths, live music and cultural performances, hand games and more. Family-friendly event. Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center. For information, call 873-3584 (bishopvisitor.com).

Malibu Chumash Powwow April 9-10, 2016

• Chumash Day Powwow
• April 9, 11:00 am-7:00 pm; April 10, 10:00 am-5:00 pm
• Malibu Bluffs Park, 24250 Pacific Coast Hwy
• Malibu, California (malibucity.org)

Free admission AND free parking (park at Webb Way & Civic Center Way to take the free shuttle). Chumash powwow with traditional arena dancing and traditional Native American food and arts and crafts. Annual Chumash Day Powwow and Inter-Tribal Gathering. All drums and dancers welcome!

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Oroville Pow Wow May 28-29, 2016
Contest dancing, Princess Coronations, Tiny Tots, Vendors. Free admission and parking. Camping information: Some RV and tent camping is available, please contact committee for reservations and information. Directions: Highway 70 (70 miles north of Sacramento) Grand Ave exit, follow signs. orovillepowwow@gmail.com
 
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA: California Indian Market & Peace Pow Wow May 1, 2016, 10:00 am-7:00 pm
32nd annual, Alameda Street at Highway 156 East. Celebrating Cinco de Mayo & World Cultures. Admission is a $1 donation. A Peace Dance honors veterans. Native Americans, Western, Wildlife Arts, Dancers, Drums, Food. One Earth, One People, Peace Vision and the San Juan Inter-tribal Council is billed as a "Living prayer for world peace".  Contact Laynee Reyna at (831) 623-4771.
 
MOORPARK: Redbird's 16th Annual Children of Many Colors Native American Powwow

• Moorpark College
• July 15-17 2016
• 7075 Campus Road
• Moorpark, CA 93021

Native American singing, dancing drumming, arts, crafts, food, and traditional dwellings $2 suggested donation per vehicle. Friday evening open flute circle; Powwow Saturday and Sunday. For more information email redbirds_vision@hotmail.com. Hosted by Redbird, a Native American and environmental non-profit association (RedbirdsVision.org). More (See California)
  
Mexican President on El Trumpo

Mexican president delivers speech during event for National Flag Day in Iguala, Guerrero State, Mexico on Feb. 24, 2016, where 43 students from a rural teachers school were disappeared by local police on Sept. 26, 2014 (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty).

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It's going to be this much bigger now! (AP)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto compared the language of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to that of dictators [German Nazi] Adolf Hitler and [Italian fascist] Benito Mussolini in an interview published Monday, and he said it has hurt U.S.-Mexico relations.

Der Furher's dork deformed?*

Asked about Trump, Pres. Pena Nieto complained to the Excelsior newspaper about "these strident expressions that seek to propose very simple solutions" and said that sort of language has led to "very fateful scenes in the history of humanity."
 
"That's the way Mussolini arrived and the way Hitler arrived," Pres. Pena Nieto said.

Pres. Pena Nieto until now had avoided direct comments on Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the two countries' borders. Trump also has said Mexican immigrants bring crime and drugs to the U.S. and are "rapists." [And white racists love that kind of talk, leading to Trump's popularity in the polls following two terms of Obama, a rightwing extremist serving Wall Street and surveillance state interests with the veneer of a "socialist," "leftist," and "radical" when he is anything but.]
 

  

*My hands are normal, my penis deformed

But as the New York businessman has built a lead in the GOP primary, current and former Mexican officials have begun to publicly express alarm. Former Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon have also alluded to Hitler in describing Trump.
 
In the interview with Excelsior, Pres. Pena Nieto said he would work with whoever eventually wins this year's U.S. presidential election and maintain a climate "of mutual respect and joint agreements."
 
In another interview published Monday, with the newspaper El Universal, the president said he would be "absolutely respectful" of the U.S. political process, but said, "It appears to me that [Trump's comments] hurt the relationship we have sought with the United States." More

La Trumpet is a popular figure to mock on both sides of the border (La Cucaracha).