Category Archive: 'Native American Sites'

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 283 Southwest Museum

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

234 Museum Drive, Mt. Washington.
Constructed between 1912 – 1914, the building was designed by the firm of Sumner P. Hunt and Silas R. Burns. It is one of the first major examples of the transition from Mission Revival to Spanish Colonial Revival in Los Angeles. The 1920 Lower entrance on Museum Drive is Pre-Columbian Revival [...]

L.A. Times The issues behind O.C.’s toll road plan

Monday, November 17th, 2008

November 17, 2008
The contentious proposal to extend a toll road 16 miles, part of that through San Onofre State Beach in northern San Diego County, has been moving slowly through the bureaucratic process for decades. The $1.3-billion road is intended to connect Rancho Santa Margarita in southern Orange County with Interstate 5 at Basilone Road [...]

Song for Panhe

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Click here to hear the Song for Panhe by Jodi Levine.

Spirit Circle Acjachemen/Juaneño © Ricardo Duffy 2008.
www.savepanhe.org and www.savesanonofre.org

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 487 Sanchez Ranch Native American Site

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Portions of the adobe structures were built in the 1790’s as part of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera. Archaeological evidence indicates a prehistoric Native American village existed on this site.
Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.
Visit the Heritage Parkscape online and on flickr.

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 586 San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery

Monday, October 20th, 2008

14400 Foothill Boulevard, Sylmar.
A flat, 3.8 acre Sylmar site, the cemetery is covered with native grasses and includes a walkway and memorial patio. It is the second-oldest cemetery in the San Fernando Valley and holds the remains of early pioneers, Civil War Veterans and Mission Indians.
Learn more about the Monuments,
Diversity, and Democracy campaign.
Visit the Heritage [...]

Art Auction Benefit United Coalition to Protect Panhe Oct. 25, 2008, 2-7 pm

Friday, October 17th, 2008

THE UNITED COALITION TO PROTECT PANHE
ART AUCTION BENEFIT
Saturday, October 25, 2008: 2-7 pm
Silent Auction Event: 4-6 pm
The proposed toll road threatens Panhe, our Sacred Ceremonial Site,
as well as Trestles, the World Famous Surf Beach, San Mateo Campground, and San Onofre State Beach.
The Silent Auction Benefit is sponsored by the United Coalition to Protect Panhe, a [...]

YouTube Acjachemen Woman Heidi Perez on the History of the Acjachemen People

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Thank you to Naui Ocelotl Huitzilopochtli for making this video and posting it on his YouTube site!
Please visit www.savepanhe.org and www.savesanonofre.org.

Save Panhe and San Onofre O.C. Toll Road Agency Seeks Federal Bailout

Friday, October 17th, 2008

The Los Angeles Times report appears below. Read the letter from diverse allies to stop the $1.1 billion toll road bailout.

O.C. toll road agency seeks federal bailout
TCA has requested a $1.1-billion federal loan to help merge its two arms and to help refinance its $4.6 million debt. Critics say the roads aren’t as profitable as [...]

Surfing Magazine “That’s what it takes: to realize you can’t do it alone.”

Friday, October 10th, 2008

“If surfers ever want to be a political force, we better learn to stand up. Now.”
- Matt Walker

I have a dream. Actually, it’s more of a nightmare. It’s a vision of coastal communities filled with pavement — but no parking. Where cultures founded on the idea of whole towns enjoying the beach together finally give [...]

Los Angeles Times Editorial Southern California’s toll road to nowhere. The Foothill South project serves neither the state nor the nation and should be rejected by Washington.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Los Angeles Times Editorial
Southern California’s toll road to nowhere
The Foothill South project serves neither the state nor the nation and should be rejected by Washington.
October 8, 2008
The U.S. Commerce Department came, it saw (or at least heard), and now it gets to decide whether to allow the Foothill South toll road to be built even [...]