Gourd rattle collected from Francisco Patencio (Cahuilla), in 1917, Courtesy of National Museum of the American Indian.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Kim Marcus (Serrano-Cahuilla), at left, tells Dorothy Ramon Learning Center President Ernest Siva (Cahuilla-Serrano) a story of how he wanted to be a singer, just like Louie Marcus.
Now he is a traditional Singer, and more. Kim Marcus is scheduled at the Aug. 14, 2021 Dragonfly Gala to receive the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Dragonfly Award for soaring achievements in saving and sharing Southern California Native American cultures.
About Kim Marcus
Kim Marcus is an Indigenous family man, a Serrano and Cahuilla Culture Bearer and a Tribal member from the Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians, the reservation where he currently lives. “My grandfather Louie Marcus was from San Manuel. My father is Clarence Bobby Marcus, Sr. and my mother is Rosie Marcus. My wife is Barbara Gilbert-Marcus, an enrolled member of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians, and a descendant from the Spokane Tribe of Indians in the State of Washington.” He has three children, Raymond, Mallory, and Valana, and four grandchildren.
“I am currently enjoying my retirement from teaching and counseling,” Kim Marcus said. “I love to Bird Sing and dance with my family.” Kim Marcus often shares Native American traditional cultural arts on different reservations and with the general public.
“Until we bring [traditional knowledge] to the forefront of our Indian people, how important it is, it will continue to fade. It will continue to fade. If we do not keep that as a value, if we do not pass down the traditions, if we do not take the value and time to study our own people, it’s going to be gone.”
REFRESH.
Stories from Kim Marcus:
Healing Spirit: Finding Balance in Ceremony and Medicine.
Rock art, Designs of Life
Saving Bighorn Sheep Songs
Tasty Native Foods from Plants
Thank you
Dorothy Ramon Learning Center is a 501(c) nonprofit that saves and shares Native American cultures, languages, history, and music and other traditional arts.
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