About: Susan Suntree
Susan Suntree's Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California (University of Nebraska Press 2010) draws from Western science and indigenous myths and songs to tell the story of how this region came into being. Her poetic adaptation of the United Nations Declaration Of Human Rights has been set as a choral work by composer Adrienne Albert ("The UNDHR: A Choral Quilt of Hope” 2010). Her book of poetry, Eye of the Womb (Power Press 1981) was recently published in Madrid as a bilingual edition, El Ojo de la Matriz (Vision Libros 2010).
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Along the coast, around San Juan Capistrano and north, they say human beings were made this way: After Wiyot’s ashes and bones were ground and buried, the First People gathered in a council at Povungna, the village in Long Beach where some say Wiyot died. They were talking about how to solve the problem of gathering food and READ MORE