Pardon our dust!
We are working to develop a robust collection of equity resources for our SMC community. Check back soon for updates!
SMC is on Kizh, Tongva, and Chumash Land.
The SMC department of Equity, Pathways, and Inclusion acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh people.
What is a land acknowledgement? What does it mean, and why is it important? While SMC works to build a land acknowlegement resource for our community, we invite you to peruse the research and resources our friends at the USC Dornsife Department of History have to offer on the Tongva and neighboring indigenous communities.
USC History Dept. Tongva Land Acknowledgement
Whose Land are You On?
Native Land Digital, a Canadian not-for-profit organization, offers an amazing interactive map where you can see historical and current indigenous lands, languages, and treaties in a layered map format. Explore the native WORLD map (most robust in the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, but with data now available on every continent, plus more added all the time!) in the browser or download their app to learn more about Native lands while on the go!
The illustration above is by Tongvan artist Weshoyot Alvitre. Part of a Summer 2021 series of seven Los Angeles billboards, seeded by the NDN Collective’s Radical Imagination grant program, the billboards were composed of photographs, digital composites and paintings featuring six Indigenous artists as part of an effort to recognize and promote social justice for the Tongva people. See article in Indian Country Today.