Don Hankins

Don Hankins, Miwkoʔ traditional cultural practitioner, consultant, and professor and field director at California State University - Chico. His expertise includes pyrogeography, sustainable water systems, conservation, planning, and Indigenous stewardship considering landscape scale, biodiversity, and resilience informed by his cultural knowledge. Don’s work includes conservation, stewardship, and policy engagement with a variety of organizations, agencies, and Indigenous entities in North America and Australia. He is also an accomplished artist with invited works exhibited regionally and internationally. Don enjoys making traditional arts including coiled and twined basketry, feather work, net making, and making fishing and hunting implements as well as bone and stone tools. He also works in a variety of contemporary media ranging from linoleum print making to photography. A focus of his contemporary works include the depiction of themes from traditional Miwkoʔ stories and other culturally significant themes, which naturally are a reflection of the environment.