Summary The “Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History” project is a groundbreaking collaboration between the Kizh-Gabrieleño, alongside researchers from USC, UCLA, and Cal State. Through a meticulous examination of oral histories, remote sensing data, historical maps, and other sources, the project seeks to shed light on the major settlements and interconnected pathways that once thrived within the Los Angeles Basin. Driven … Read More
Kizh Nation Cultural and Environmental Stewardship Camp at Newport Beach
https://scc.ca.gov/ Made possible by The Coastal Conservancy. Explore the coast grant. The Coastal Conservancy is a California state agency, established in 1976, to protect and improve natural lands and waterways, to help people get to and enjoy the outdoors, and to sustain local economies along California’s coast. It acts with others to protect and restore, and increase public access to, … Read More
Tribe Sacred Lands
Sacred Sycamore Tree
Kizh not Tongva
Words hurt, especially ones that was inflicted on us by modern day colonizers. Below is a pdf article that explains the origins of the word Tongva and evidence to back up our ancestral name Kizh. Our cultural genocide continues to this day.