Miiyuyam!
The Rincon Indian Education Center is committed to the Native American students and community in developing them for a more demanding future.
Miiyuyam! Howka Menuwaya! Bienvenidos! Welcome!
The Rincon Indian Education Center has been providing Educational and Cultural experiences and uplifting our community's Indigenous Knowledge since 1974.
Preservation of our Language, Story, Songs, and Games is a responsibility our Storytellers do with honor. Our responsibilities include providing assemblies, workshops, and classes to our local VCPUSD School District, by way of California Indian Day, Cultural Humility, and the VCMS Native & Indigenous Club.
Our team is responsible for organizing bi-monthly Rez Beats Open Mic Nights, Children's Games at Fiesta, and providing opportunities for advocacy and leadership through a social justice and equity lens.
Our Medicinal Plant Project helps support our team's work at healing for our Native and Indigenous Youth and their families. Please click on the Medicinal Plant Project tab for more info!
Meet our Team!
Hunwut Turner
Executive Director
Ami Admire
Program Manager/RYS Director
Esmeralda Salcedo
education coordinator
Meslissa Elder
Education Coordinator
Priscilla Ortiz
Knowledge Keeper/Youth Leader
Anthony Hurtado
Knowledge Keeper/Youth Leader
Kali Melendez
Knowledge Keeper/Youth Leader
Cassie Whitten
Knowledge Keeper/Youth Leader
Tyra Johnson
Ana Melendez
Andrew Pittman
Honorary Member - Condor Visual Media
Gathering of Native Americans (Gona) 2022
The GONA will take place June 17-19, 2022 at Los Coyotes Campground. Los Coyotes and RIEC/GONA Planning Committee will host 60 young adults and approximately 35 facilitators and volunteers from San Diego County and Riverside County area reservations and organizations.
The purpose of GONA is to provide space for young adults to address community-identified issues that are potential barriers to their healing process. They will strengthen their sense of self-identity through participation in Indigenous Practices including cultural, spiritual, and physical activities.
To learn more and/or to register please click the link below.
Artwork by Anthony Hurtado
San Xavier and Rincon
RIEC Partnership with VCPUSD
To read more click below.
Rincon Youth Storytellers
Are you interested in passing down the Songs, Stories, and Games to the next Seven Generations? To be a Storyteller is to be a knowledge keeper for your People.
Learn how to join here!
Rincon Youth Storytellers performing for the California Center For The Arts Museum in Escondido, CA.
Medicinal Plant Project
Our Medicinal Plant Project helps support our teams work at healing for our Native and Indigenous Youth and their families. Please click on the Medicinal Plant Project Tab for more info!
This Plant Project connects our young people to their ancestors. This is important because our Creation Stories tell us that our Plants and Trees are among the first People.
The young people need to know where our gathering areas are and how our Plants continue to work as Medicine today, as they did before.
RIEC Video Highlights
Visit our Youtube channel: Rincon Education to view our previous recorded events, such as Storytelling Class, Rez Beats, and more!