Póombokom Tuulémɨsé

Cultural Collective

Shanti Parks

Deerstine Suehead

Izabella Suehead

Sage LaPena

Póombokom Tuulémɨsé is a cultural collective that supports, enhances, and protects the continuity of regional Tribal material culture via intergenerational learning and the transference of cultural protocol and norms.

This reclamation of pre-contact material culture enhances the regional knowledge bank, reconnects matrilineal cultural knowledge, nurtures community support networks, and creates a safe space for the sharing for traditional cultural skills as a physical and mental wellness tool.

About Us

Shanti Parks is a contemporary Native artist belonging to the rivers known as the American in the Northern Sierra Nevada Range. Shanti works to educate and promote Native culture as art, and art as critically important to life.

Deerstine Suehead is a self taught painter Indigenous to the Northern California Foothills. She is a traditional tattoo practitioner. She gives back to community through art & sobriety.

Nisenan from the Sierra Nevada Foothills and American River, Izabella Suehead is a cultural practitioner and Mother of 2, dedicated to uplifting Tribal youth. Through the perpetuation of Central California Tribal lifeways, Izabella works to support another generation of Indigenous traditionalists.

Sage LaPena is Nomtipom/Nonsus Wintu of the upper Sacramento and Trintiy River watersheds, residing in Nisenan lands. Her lifelong training in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) informs her focus on Ethnobotany, Herbalism, food sovereignty and regalia making. Sage is a traditional practitioner and teaches classes that support cultural continuity and wellness through intergenerational learning.

CONTACT cam.culturalarts@gmail.com