Address
1 Indian Canyon Road
Hollister, CA 95023
Hours
We are not a park. Appointments Only
Sacred Land
Many get lost coming to this haven. May those who are meant to visit, come in a good way.
Indian Canyon has served as a safe haven for Indigenous peoples, pre and post contact. Opening sovereign land for all Indigenous peoples in need of land for ceremony and education. We have in-access to 5,000 visitors annually.
In many cases it is one of few places that keeps Indigenous community connected to their culture and traditions through ceremony, stewarding the land, harvesting medicines, and the many social gatherings, cultural events, and ceremonies that are held here.
We are open to the broader public by appointment, special events, field-trips, fundraisers, and collaborations, culture sharing – cultural sensitivity workshops with Kanyon Konsulting LLC.
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CIR is the nonprofit arm of federally recognized Indian Land outside of Hollister. We open our land to
all who wish to partake in Indigenous American ceremony, from sweat lodges, to storytelling (most Indigenous Americans are oral history practitioners), to dance and song ceremony, and beyond.
People come to the land for so many reasons, among them: to reconnect people who suffer NDD (Nature Deficit Disorder) to
the land; as indigenous people in need of land for ceremony; for vision quest and coming of age ceremonies; marriages, naming, memorials and mourning ceremonies; and many more. We also practice and teach land stewardship, fire ecology and hold ‘Fire Mimicry’ workshops. We provide encouragement and aid to non-indigenous community who wish to take steps towards connecting to being responsible ancestors-in-training.
All of these practices, education and support systems can bring a centering spiritually, physically and emotionally. We seek to allow people to seek and maintain balance and wellness while practicing in a manner that is in line with their belief systems. Pre-covid, we have an excessive 5000 visitors annually to Indian Canyon.