TNBTP Board Member Nikcole Whipple, Round Valley tribes
Native American Fiber Program August 2025 Webinar
Nikcole Whipple is an advocate for restorative justice, a water protector and cultural fire lighter. She has experience working with Tribes and Indigenous led organizations providing environmental advocacy, youth led advocacy and environmental connections, traditional ecological knowledge curriculum and community presentations. Her passion is centered in the protection of cultural practices through Indigenous led stewardship projects supporting cultural healing and wellness with the intention of conserving our ancestral lands and waters.
August 2, 2025 Teach-in
The Noyo Bida Truth Project sponsors a special program on Saturday, August 2, at 1 p.m. at Mendocino College, Coast Campus, 1211 Del Mar Drive, Fort Bragg, Room 112.
Our special Guest Speaker, will be Tatiana Cantrell, The Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Director for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.
Dr. Cantrell has worked with children and families in Lake and Mendocino Counties for the past 25 years. She has spent the past several years working with local indigenous communities to address historical and generational trauma by removing barriers to services, forming collaborative relationships with community agencies, and individualizing family and case plans to meet people where they are at. She is a current faculty member at Mendocino College in the Child Development Department.
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) crisis refers to the disproportionately high rates of violence, including murder and disappearances, experienced by Indigenous people, particularly women and girls, in the United States and Canada. This crisis is a serious issue with deep historical roots in colonization and its ongoing impacts. Locally it had roots in the Mendocino Indian Reservation overseen here by soldiers at Fort Bragg and continuing through the Indian schools in Mendocino County into the 20th Century.
This program is free and open to all.
The above photo is of a participant in the Greater Than Fear Rally & March in Rochester Minnesota, 2018. Photo by Lorie Shaull