LAND

LAND recognizes that we are visitors on land that is originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Native First Peoples of this region, including the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples. We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present, and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide, and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing, and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles.