UPDATE!!!
UPDATE!!!
The Indigenous CO-PIs and Wendy Teeter have agreed to archive the project given the recent admission of Maylei Blackwell that she is not Cherokee and willfully did not follow up on family stories. Professor Blackwell primarily worked with the Latin American Indigenous Diaspora map. We regret any harm that came to the communities we have worked with over the years. Our Indigenous collaborators are an important part of this research and we tried to our best to keep their voices and wishes in the project mapping. The voices of community members are important in these maps, So for now we will keep the project up until we consult with our community collaborators about their wishes given Dr. Blackwell’s admission.
About Our Project
Following indigenous protocols of recognizing the original inhabitants of Los Angeles, we would like to acknowledge Gabrielino Tongva (Tongva) and the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians on whose lands we live as we put together this resource. Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles aims to uncover and highlight the multiple layers of indigenous Los Angeles through a storymapping project with youth, community leaders, and elders from indigenous communities throughout the city.
We will continue to build on our research to include more original inhabitants of Southern California and relocated American Indians, the Latin American indigenous diaspora, and Pacific Islander communities, who have made Los Angeles their home. This knowledge preserves the cultural integrity of indigenous Los Angeles and serves policy makers, city planners, and the community at-large in understanding indigenous people of LA, as people who are not just in some distant, historic past, but as contemporary people who still reside here and share the cultural and geographic landscape of the city with its inhabitants.
All material should be attributed to Author(s) of Individual Maps, Mapping Indigenous LA, Los Angeles: CA, Date of Map Publication.
