Tongva Land: Land Return, Yard Return, White Sage & Supporting Indigenous Sovereignty

Please join Samantha Morales-Johnson from the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Land Conservancy to learn about the creation of the conservancy and the first Land Back in Los Angeles. Samantha will also share about the history, culture, and relationship to nature of the Tongva people including yard return, issues with white sage, and ways to support Indigenous Sovereignty.

Meet the Speaker: Samantha Morales-Johnson (Tongva, she/her) is Land Return Coordinator of the TTPC, a science illustrator, and ethnobotanist. Alongside her mom, Kimberly, she started the Protect White Sage digital campaign to protect Grandmother White Sage. She has a B.S. in Marine Biology from CSU Puvungna and has been adapting her ecological knowledge to work with Tongva ethnobotany she grew up with to handle advanced ecological problems that come with land return from non-native species to native species in the midst of climate change.

Closed captioning is available for this trainoing. For questions about accessibility, please email training@communitynatureconnection.org.

Location: Online

Instructor: Samantha Morales-Johnson

*Must be 18 and over for this training