Between Homelands: How a Canoe Connects a Tongva Woman to Her Tribe

Picture the land all the way from downtown Los Angeles to Catalina Island. The dominant culture there was once the Tongva people. Today, Tongvan descendants have dwindled, and the tribe is still trying to get federal recognition. So while the region has been their home for millennia, some still struggle to find their place there. That brings us to our series “Between Homelands,” where students from USC Annenberg's School for Communication and Journalism tell stories of people in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners. We find out how one Tongvan woman found her sense of home.