The Los Angeles Times had an article about the Tongva today: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-10/after-nearly-200-years-t... With a link to an earlier article about the Tongva language: Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the door to a forgotten time and place - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) <https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-col1-tongva-language-native-american-...> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:27 PM Glenn McKnight via NA-Discuss < na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

It's very common that meetings in Canada acknowledge the historical lands of the indigenous people who preceded the European settlements. We may want to replicate this idea at our GA

The W hotel is located on the ancestral lands of the Tongva.

See article in NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/10/10/1127837659/native-land-map-ancestral-tribal-l... A MAPPING project of indigenous lands https://native-land.ca/

Background on the Tongva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongva

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