From May 30th to August 18 2023, Internship will total approximately 240 hours, about 20 hours/week.Research and interpret the cultural history of the park.Become familiar with general park operations. Assist with opening/closing and basic curatorial housekeeping.Assist and lead interpretive programs including adobe tours and Living History Demonstrations.Assist with management of Summer Archaeology Project (SAP)Complete several curatorial projects including updates to Virtual Bell Exhibit, development of materials for volunteer training, and archiving of institutional media.Report to State Parks Interpreter I.

This work is in connection with the Native American Heritage Commission. At the archives I engaged in projects related to curation, inventory, and database management of archaeological materials and associated records. Some of the work is connected to CalNAGPRA/NAGPRA, and we work towards repatriating many of these items back to Indigenous Nations. Duties include: Data entry, inventory of artifacts and associated records, reprinting labels, organizing artifact boxes, taking and sending inventory to Native American Heritage Commission.

I assisted PhD candidate in the “California Pasts” archaeology lab located on UC Santa Cruz campus. The Redman/Hirahara house is a farm house that was owned by a Japanese American family, the Hiraharas. When executive order 9066 was signed in 1942, the Hiraharas were sent to Rowher internment camp in Arkansas. The project works towards piecing together Japanese farming and community in the Pajaro Valley pre and post internment, while also bringing more awareness to social injustices that Japanese Americans faced during WWII.Duties include: Sorting artifacts, washing artifacts, photographing artifacts and associated documents, archival research, data entry, analysis of artifacts, bagging and cataloging artifacts.