Cultural Programs
Weekly Drum & Dance Class
Weekly interactive sessions where community members learn traditional drumming and dance techniques under cultural mentors. Meals and refreshments served.
Youth Council
Our community-led Youth Council fosters healthy lifestyles, cultural identity, and peer-led solutions to prevent substance abuse. Through mentorship, cultural teachings, the Council empowers youth with strength, pride, and a sense of belonging.
Virtual Workshops
Free online classes focused on Native arts, storytelling, and cultural practices. Taught by cultural keepers and community classes. Classes include cooking, t-dress making, ribbon skirt making, and applique creation.
MMIP/MMIW Justice
Advocacy programs centered on raising awareness, healing and justice work for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives
Annual Gathering of Native Americans (GONA)
Our culturally rooted community gathering is designed to promote healing, unity, and strength through traditional practices, storytelling, and collective dialogue.
Fashion Show
The Indigenous Fashion Show centers fashion as a living expression of Native identity, resistance, and survival in the city. Community members and elders model traditional and contemporary designs—like ribbon skirts, beadwork, and reimagined regalia—accompanied by Native music, storytelling, and designer introductions.
Heritage Night
Native American Heritage Night transforms a civic space—often San Francisco City Hall—into a Native-led gathering that proclaims “we are still here” on Ohlone land. The evening includes an opening blessing and land acknowledgment, drum and dance performances, speakers, art, and recognition of local Native leaders and organizations.
Round Dance
The Round Dance originates from the Cree Nation of Canada and is a ceremony held to bring healing after the passing of our loved ones. The songs and "Round Dance" are shared with relatives and friends who dance together to the drums. This Round Dance symbolizes unity, ceremony, and the collective journey of healing through grief. It is also a time for Indigenous communities to come together, to dance, to hear the songs, and to experience happiness, laughter, and restoration of the spirit. AICC's intention for the Round Dance is to bring Native people from all over the Bay Area and far to bring hope, strengthen our spirits and be in unity and solidarity during these unpredictable times.
Big Time
Big Time draws on California Indian “big time” traditions where tribes gather to dance, trade, and renew relationships with one another and the land. Attendees experience traditional and intertribal dancers, singers, Native food, vendors, and youth activities in public spaces that reconnect the community to ancestral homelands.
Sunday Streets
The American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco partners each year with Sunday Streets—San Francisco’s beloved open-streets program that transforms city blocks into car-free, community-powered spaces for art, music, movement, and cultural exchange—to bring Indigenous artists, vendors, and cultural programming directly into the public realm. Together, they create welcoming spaces where neighbors and visitors can experience Native culture, support Indigenous creatives, and build meaningful connections across communities. This partnership helps ensure Indigenous presence is visible, celebrated, and woven into the fabric of city life, strengthening cultural understanding, community pride, and San Francisco’s identity as a city that honors and uplifts its diverse roots.