The Commerce Department has set a hearing date on the toll road agency appeal for July 24 and/or July 25 at UC Irvine. The notice of hearing is attached. The toll road agency is appealing the California Coastal Commission 8-2 decision to stop the toll road and save Panhe and San Onofre. Visit www.savepanhe.org and [...]

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Almost every person on earth has been to a burial site in his or her lifetime. Very few, if any, would rush to think about damaging or destroying those sacred lands. But throughout American history, and even [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports on Jun 14, 2008, that United Coalition to Protect Panhe, a grassroots coalition of Native American tribal members, continues to oppose the toll road to save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach. One faction of the Juaneño band headed by David Belardes has approved a deal to receive $350,000 for [...]

“At the commission hearing, Los Angeles civil rights and environmental attorney Robert Garcia and Acjachemen activist Rebecca Robles and other Native American leaders provided a moving and passionate defense of San Onofre as a critical site for providing access to open space and recreational resources for underserved communities. The San Mateo Creek watershed is actually [...]

Please help save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach and find alternatives to the proposed toll road that would devastate both. Send a letter to the Commerce Department before May 28, 2008!
Three state agencies formally oppose the toll road: the California Coastal Commission, the California Parks and Recreation Commission, and the California Native American Heritage [...]

Dear Friends,
Please help the United Coalition to Protect Panhe (UCPP)—a grassroots alliance of Native Americans—and The City Project save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach, and find an alternative to the toll road that would devastate both.
The California Coastal Commission voted 8-2 to save the sacred Native American site of Panhe and San Onofre and [...]

Click on the image to see all sizes of the map and detailed charts analyzing proposed park closures.
The Governor has proposed closing 48 out of 278 priceless State Parks to save money. The proposal would close one out of every six state parks, to save just $9 million.
Four counties with the greatest green access need [...]

Transit to Trails visited the Wishtoyo Foundation’s Chumash Demonstration Village Project in Malibu on April 26, 2008.

The Village will consist of the creation of an outdoor working Native American village on a four-acre site at Nicholas Canyon County Beach in Malibu, creating the only living Chumash cultural village of its kind in Southern California.
Transit to [...]

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival features Native American tribes performing an intertribal dance at the Louisiana Native National Tent on April 25, 2008.

Learn more about The City Project’s Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation has published a study based on the public’s need to become more aware of California’s cultural diversity and its tangible manifestations on the land. Five Views: An Ethnic Sites Survey for California (1988) can serve as a best practice example guide for cultural and heritage monuments that celebrate [...]