INLAND EMPIRE SECTION INLAND EMPIRE SECTION

Moderated by Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP

Panelists

October 24, 2014 ● Palm Desert, California

PROGRAM

Hosted by the Coachella Valley Association of Governments

Paul Macarro Cultural Coordinator

Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians

Patricia Garcia Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

Anna Hoover Cultural Analyst/Archaeologist

Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians

Ebru Ozdil Cultural Resources Planning Specialist

Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians

Katie Eskew Archaeologist

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

Colleen Cook Archives Coordinator

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

The Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association would like to thank the

Pechanga Tribe and the Agua Caliente Tribe for their contributions to understanding

California Planning History .

11:00 a.m. – Registration

11:15 a.m. – Welcoming Remarks & Program Introductions

Aaron Pfannenstiel, AICP, LEED AP – Section Director, Inland

Empire Section of the American Planning Association

Gustavo N. González, AICP – Section Historian, Inland

Empire Section of the American Planning Association

Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP – Vice President of Communications,

California Planning Roundtable

11:30 a.m. – Moderated Discussion

“A Discussion on Native American Villages” Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP – Vice President of Communications,

California Planning Roundtable Paul Macarro – Cultural Coordinator, Pechanga Band of

Luiseño Mission Indians

Anna Hoover – Cultural Analyst/Archaeologist, Pechanga

Band of Luiseño Mission Indians

Ebru Ozdil – Cultural Resources Planning Specialist,

Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians

Patricia Garcia – Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Agua

Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

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CIVIC CENTER PARK

Katie Eskew – Archaeologist, Agua Caliente Band of

Cahuilla Indians

Colleen Cook – Archives Coordinator, Agua Caliente Band of

Cahuilla Indians

Mr. Vazquez will lead our panel of experts in a candid and

lively discussion on the planning concepts and land use

strategies of historic Native Americans villages, the larger

context of village sites and how to effectively avoid and/or

mitigate impacts to existing sites.

12:00 p.m. – Lunch Please enjoy a catered lunch during the moderated

discussion.

1:00 p.m. – Guided Walking Tour of Civic Center Park

Trained docents will lead a guided walking tour of Palm

Desert’s Civic Center Park and it’s public art collection. The

largest of Palm Desert's parks, the park is the City's

recreational showpiece and contains a spectacular collection

of public art including the Holocaust Memorial, the Peace

Memorial, the Dreamer, and Desert Dessert.

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Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP (Moderator) – Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP is the first

urban planner hired by the Riverside County Department of Public Health. His

role is to strengthen the integration of planning and health through

collaboration with non-traditional partners. Miguel’s professional experience

spans over twelve years and is Vice President of Communications for the

California Planning Roundtable and former IES-APA Historian. He holds a

Bachelor of Arts degree in urban studies and planning from California State

University - Northridge.

Paul Macarro (Panelist) – Paul Macarro is a Pechanga Tribal Member who was

trained as a Cultural Site Monitor and has served as the Pechanga Cultural

Resources Department Coordinator for 10 years. He is Pechanga’s delegate to

the Riverside County's T-TRAC (Tribal-Traditional Cultural Resources

Committee). As Coordinator, Mr. Macarro has organized outreach events and

cultural presentations for the Chámmakilawish School as well as universities,

museums, and historical societies.

Anna Hoover (Panelist) – Anna Hoover serves as the Cultural Resources

Analyst for the Pechanga Tribe. She has been with the Tribe over 7 years and

works closely with various Local, State and Federal Agencies to protect and

preserve invaluable Luiseño cultural resources, sacred places and traditional

landscapes. She has worked in southern California Cultural Resource

Management for almost 17 years. Anna is a Registered Professional

Archaeologist and fulfills the Secretary of the Interior Professional

Qualifications Standards for Archaeology. She received her Master of Science

from the University of California, Riverside.

Tuba Ebru Ozdil (Panelist) – Ebru Ozdil serves as the Cultural Planning

Specialist for the Pechanga Tribe. Ebru works to protect the Tribe’s cultural and

archaeological resources from potential and actual impacts to their integrity,

on and off reservation, by implementing urban and regional planning

principles, zoning and subdivision map design concepts. She has over 12 years

of urban and regional planning experience in both private and public sectors.

Ebru received her Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from

California State Polytechnic University of Pomona.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Patricia Garcia (Panelist) – Patricia Garcia serves as the Tribal Historic

Preservation Officer for the Agua Caliente Tribe (THPO). As the Tribe’s THPO,

Patricia’s administrative duties include day-to-day operations, oversight of

field surveys and investigations, protection, documentation and management

of cultural resources within the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation and the

Traditional Use Area. She also provides Native American Consultation,

Section 106 review, CEQA review, NEPA review, SB18 review, and serves as a

signatory participant for various Programmatic Agreements with federal

agencies.

Katie Eskew (Panelist) – Katie Eskew serves as the Archaeologist for the Agua

Caliente. She has worked as an archaeologist in Southern California for 13

years. She received her Master of Arts in Anthropology from California State

University, Long Beach and is currently working on her Master of Science in

Geographic Information Science at the University of Redlands.

Colleen Cook (Panelist) – Colleen Cook serves as the Archives Coordinator for

the Agua Caliente Tribe. She handles the information needs of the Tribe and

currently assists in the collection, storage, and access of supporting historical

information for the Tribe. Colleen received her Bachelor of Arts in History and

a Masters of Library and Information Science focusing on archives and has

worked with government, private, and non-profit repositories.

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