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Featured Native American Events

Upcoming Community Events


Warm Springs

  • Warm Springs Recreation is doing a Halloween Costume Exchange & Drive on Wednesday, October 8th from 5:30-7:30pm at the Community Wellness Center. You can bring gently used costumes in all youth and adult sizes.
  • October 24th, Halloween Dance at the Warm Springs Community Wellness Center Social Hall. Dancing begins at 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
  • Warm Springs Fire Prevention is hosting a haunted house. October 31, 2025 at the old school gym, 1112 Wasco St, Warm Springs, OR. 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. 

Bend

  • Bend Film Festival - She Cried That Day. A film about Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives directed by Amanda Erickson. Friday Oct. 10, 10 a.m. at Regel 6, 4:45 p.m. at Madras Cinema 5, Sunday Oct. 12, 1 p.m. at Open Space, 220 NE Lafayette Ave, Bend, OR 97701 Tickets
  • Oregon State University Cascades First Peoples Celebration. Saturday October 11, 2025. 

Madras

  • Guardian of the Land,” from filmmaker LaRonn Katchia for OPB’s “Oregon Experience.”

    This film is premiering as part of the Bend Film Festival on Sunday, October 12 at the Madras Performing Arts Center during the Indigenous Film Showcase. The screening will start at 6 p.m.

    Tickets are free – register at opb.org/bendfilm. 

 

Native American Event Videos

Hip hop and rap artist Blue Framez

Indigenous People's Day 2023. Native Hip Hop artist Blue Flamez give a short concert at COCC Bend Campus

Native American Flute Music by James Edmund Greeley

Indigenous People's Day 2023. James Edmund Greely showing his talent at COCC Bend Campus

Celebrating the Strength & Resilience of Native People

Indigenous People's Day 2023. Presented by COCC world languages instructor Gabriann Hall, from the Klamath Tribes.

Native American Flute Music by James Edmund Greeley

Award winning musician James Greeley from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs shares stories, traditions, knowledge of flutes, and his beautiful Native American flute music in this event which took place in Wille Hall on COCC's Bend campus.

Truth, Reckoning and Healing: A Story of Indian Boarding Schools

Presented by COCC world languages instructor Gabriann Hall, from the Klamath Tribes.

 

For more information contact Jeremiah Rector, Native American program coordinator, at 541-318-3782 or jrector@cocc.edu.