Located in Roseville, Maidu Activity Center is an establishment that gives you the history of the Maidu people of California. The Maidu Activity Center is closed to the public but provides private tours of it's center and the nature area in the back.
I visited as a chaperone on a school trip and the 1st tour guide taught the class of the Maidu people, and how they lived on the land back in the day. The class are learned of the Maidu people today and their culture and customs, while showing the children all types of different artifacts. While in the center the kids also got to do a series of trade simulations as locale tribes from the area, it was pretty cool watching the groups figure out what the best trades would be and how'd they bargain and negotiate. Just like the tribes in the area would have to do back in the day.
On the second portion of the trip the class was taken on a trail tour of the grounds in the back of the center. The tour guide for this portion was a man by the name of Al, and he should how the Maidu tribes women would make flour out of acorns. Along the tour the children also got the opportunity to to adorn their faces with face paint in the traditional ways of the Maidu people, based on if they were boys or girls.
The children also got the opportunity to sit around an area where the Maidu people of today, still visit to meet and do carry on traditional practices.
Overall it was a very good trip and inside the activity center, there's also a souvenir shop where you can get a keep sake of your visit. read more
