On a recent Thursday afternoon inside the Point Reyes Library, Elissa Simons stood before an audience and sang a traditional Coast Miwok weya. Her soft voice filled the light-drenched room as her elderberry clapperstick, handcrafted by her father, kept rhythm. At the end, she called out, “Ohhh,” and the enthused audience called back, “Ohhh!”
The performance was one of several cultural events tied to a rotating exhibit, “Stewards of the Land,” a series of…