Upcoming Community Events:

Warm Springs

Warm Springs Recreation is doing a Halloween Costume Exchange & Drive on Wednesday, October 8^th 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.

Featured Native American Events

Native American Heritage Month 2025

COCC is commemorating Native American Heritage Month with a lineup in-person events in November, including at the Bend, Madras, Redmond and Prineville campuses, all free and open to the public.

Storytelling, history, and a film screening, including ways to support Indigenous students and communities are all part of COCC's Native American Heritage Month.

The Nancy R. Chandler Lecture Series and the High Desert Museum present:

Beautiful Strengths of Indigenous Communities

Michelle Jacob, Ph.D. – Member of Yakama Nation, Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Director of the Sapsik’wałá Program, University of Oregon. Dr. Michelle Jacob emphasizes that understanding Indigenous history must go hand in hand with celebrating the vibrant contributions of Native peoples today. Rooted in Yakama traditions and the wisdom of Elders, her talk will highlight the resilience and brilliance of Indigenous communities while offering a message of hope, love, and collective strength to inspire a more connected and compassionate world.

Sunday, November 2, 1 p.m. Wille Hall, Coats Campus Center, COCC Bend Campus

Sliding scale pricing $0-$15.

Cocc.edu/foundation/cls

Amy Cullen Beading classes, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 3pm to 4pm will be a beginner class, 25 spots will be open. Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025, 3pm to 4pm will be an intermediate class. Mazama hall room 207.

Book discussion of A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter. November 11 at noon to 1pm part one discussion will be on zoom. A zoom link will be emailed to those that registered. November 20, 2pm to 3pm, part two discussion will be in person on the Redmond campus, RTEC 124 as well as on zoom. Copies are available to check out on each campus as well as digital copies through Barber Library.

Friendly game about Native American history. Game begins November 3 and end on November 14.

Participants will be notified through email about prizes and answers will be posted to COCC Native American website on November 17.

Start Game Here

Throughout November, visit all four COCC campuses to learn about Native American Culture, resources and opportunities to get involved. Bend, Coats Campus Center; Redmond, Technology Education Center lobby; Prineville and Madras, front lobby.

Visit our COCC Multicultural Events page for details.

Indigenous Peoples' Day: October 13, 2025

IPD 2025

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.