Session one of the year long Water Learning Series: Los Angeles with Tina Calderon, Teri Red Owl, Annie Mendoza and Kyndall Noah.
We welcome Tina Calderon, Teri Red Owl, Annie Mendoza and Kyndall Noah to share story about what the area that is now Los Angeles once was and how an Indigenous perspective is needed in relation to how water is treated in the city.
TINA CALDERON (Gabrielino Tongva, Chumash and Yoeme)
Tina Orduno Calderon is a Culture Bearer for her family; the descendants of Komiikranga of the Santa Monica mountains which is shared territory for the Chumash and Tongva. Tina is wife, mother, grandmother, sister and auntie to many. Tina is a singer who also enjoys creative writing and composing poems and songs.
TERI RED OWL (Bishop Paiute Tribe Nuumu from Payahuunadu)
Executive Director at Owens Valley Indian Water Commission. Co-Produced Award-winning film PAYA THE WATER STORY OF THE PAIUTE. She lives in Bishop, California with her husband and children.
ANNIE MENDOZA (Gabrieleno-Tongva)
Annie is cocreator and director of the “Aqueduct Between Us,” a five-part social justice multimedia radical oral history documentary that aims to educate the people of Los Angeles about the Indigenous communities (Tongva –Gabrieleno and the Owens Valley Paiute/ Shoshone) who have been greatly impacted by their land and water use.
KYNDALL NOAH (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Project Coordinator/Communication Specialist for the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission, working to ensure that the story of Owens Valley is inclusive and told from the perspective of the Indigenous people.
The Water Learning Series: Los Angeles is a year long virtual event that will be recorded and published at a later date at TALKING WATER.
In collaboration with Accelerate Resilience L.A.