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"content": "\u003cp>In a Mexican-American family, which side of the border you were born on determines a lot, but not everything. The challenges faced by undocumented immigrants in the United States are well known. But what about children who were born here to undocumented parents? They are full U.S. citizens, but they often face their own legal and emotional burdens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/207899967\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no mistaking it: Jorge and Lupe Herrera are family. As they gather in the living room after dinner with the rest of the family, the siblings' similarities stand out — from their coffee-colored eyes and animated smiles to their shared passion for music, travel and learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd love to go to Mexico, Europe,\" said Lupe, 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And Latin America,\" added Jorge, 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one thing, however, that these siblings don't share: legal immigration status in the United States. Jorge was 4 years old when his parents arranged for family members to secretly bring him north from Mexico. Meanwhile, his parents made the treacherous journey through the desert and across the border into the United States. Lupe and her younger sister were born in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge and his mom and dad remain undocumented. Lupe and her sister are natural-born U.S. citizens. But as they sit on living room sofas, laughing and teasing each other, a visitor would not guess that this is a family divided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10541511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10541511 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut-800x1241.jpg\" alt=\"Lupe Herrera loves the mall, where she can be a typical American teen, checking out her favorite brands and keeping friends close through text messages on her cellphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut-800x1241.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut-400x621.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut-1440x2234.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut-1180x1831.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut-960x1490.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15293_Lupe-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Herrera loves the mall, where she can be a typical American teen, checking out her favorite brands and keeping friends close through text messages on her cellphone. \u003ccite>(Charles Magovern/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The legal divide between Jorge and Lupe is a growing trend. A 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report shows that three out of four children of unauthorized immigrants are U.S. citizens by birth. The number of U.S.-born children who live in \"mixed-status\" families expanded rapidly, to 4 million in 2008 from 2.7 million just five years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe is a 21st century American teen. Walking through the Del Amo mall in Torrance, she's clad in fashionably ripped jeans, cellphone planted in hand. Her eyes sparkle when she sees the new spring styles the shops are displaying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is lace, I'd wear this … and the new jeans, boyfriend jeans, they're new!\" she announced before she rushed off to check out a rack of flower-print miniskirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tears well up when she's asked about the divide in her close and devoted family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's fair for me to just have the advantages of what the U.S. gives,\" she said through sobs. \"Because to me, basically, they are American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legally, though, they are not. Lupe has all the protections of U.S. law, and she will never be deported. None of that is guaranteed to her brother and parents. Then there are the simple activities that most Americans never think twice about. Like piling in the car for a family road trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the family's living room, Lupe and Jorge's father, a quiet patriarch, becomes emotional when he talks about a dream he has -- to take his wife and children to San Diego to visit Sea World. It's less than 100 miles from the family’s home. But it's impossibly out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to have identification to travel there,\" Jorge said. Sea World, he explained, is too close to the Mexican border and \"everyone knows about the immigration checkpoint in San Clemente.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorge and Lupe's parents, who took that perilous journey across the desert to keep their children from lives of certain poverty, have reason to be hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10541509\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10541509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge Herrera is the first in his family to attend university. A junior at UCLA, he is setting an example for his U.S. citizen younger sisters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-400x601.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-1440x2163.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-1180x1772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-960x1442.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Herrera is the first in his family to attend university. A junior at UCLA, he is setting an example for his U.S. citizen younger sisters. \u003ccite>(Charles Magovern/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their first-born son, Jorge, is now a junior at UCLA -- the first in his family to ever attend university. His mother and father went only as far as third grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge says he got to college because of the tenacity and work ethic he learned from his parents, as well as a California law that allows qualified undocumented students who were brought to the U.S. before age 16 to attend school at in-state tuition rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At college, Jorge became a community organizer, educating other students about their rights and helping them enroll when they otherwise would have given up on higher education. Ironically, it is now the undocumented Jorge who provides inspiration to his little sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being the first one in the family to go to school, it comes with a big responsibility, which is teaching my sisters the importance of education,\" he said, resting his backpack on a concrete bench near his classroom at UCLA. \"More than a brother, I want to provide guidance. Someone there to say, 'It's OK, get back up, let's figure it out together – If we fail, we fail together. But as well, if we fail, we get back up together.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Lupe is following Jorge’s lead and applying to college. As an American citizen, she'll file the standard application and financial aid forms, rather than special forms the state designed for kids like Jorge. But not all of Lupe's paperwork was written with students of undocumented parents in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like, if my parents are undocumented, then I'm undocumented,\" Lupe said of the federal financial aid process. \"It doesn't matter if I am a U.S. citizen or if I'm not because, either way, my parents are not, so it doesn't change anything. When I tried to apply, they asked for my parents' social security and … we can't put what they don't have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe tried repeatedly to submit her financial aid application as the instructions indicated. After many bounce-backs and error messages, Jorge's years of experience helping students through complicated college applications paid off. He was able to figure out how to file Lupe's application manually. So Lupe will be able to follow her big brother to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how he did it,\" Lupe said, smiling. \"He just told me it was done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her parents' first-born U.S. citizen child, Lupe hopes one day to make her family's biggest dreams come true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10541512\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10541512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge and Lupe Herrera are devoted siblings, in spite of differences in immigration status. Here, they enjoy a moment together at their baby cousin’s birthday party.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-1440x962.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge and Lupe Herrera are devoted siblings, in spite of differences in immigration status. 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A 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report shows that three out of four children of unauthorized immigrants are U.S. citizens by birth. The number of U.S.-born children who live in \"mixed-status\" families expanded rapidly, to 4 million in 2008 from 2.7 million just five years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe is a 21st century American teen. Walking through the Del Amo mall in Torrance, she's clad in fashionably ripped jeans, cellphone planted in hand. Her eyes sparkle when she sees the new spring styles the shops are displaying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is lace, I'd wear this … and the new jeans, boyfriend jeans, they're new!\" she announced before she rushed off to check out a rack of flower-print miniskirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tears well up when she's asked about the divide in her close and devoted family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's fair for me to just have the advantages of what the U.S. gives,\" she said through sobs. \"Because to me, basically, they are American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legally, though, they are not. Lupe has all the protections of U.S. law, and she will never be deported. None of that is guaranteed to her brother and parents. Then there are the simple activities that most Americans never think twice about. 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A junior at UCLA, he is setting an example for his U.S. citizen younger sisters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-400x601.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-1440x2163.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-1180x1772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut-960x1442.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15290_Jorge-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Herrera is the first in his family to attend university. 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So Lupe will be able to follow her big brother to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how he did it,\" Lupe said, smiling. \"He just told me it was done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her parents' first-born U.S. citizen child, Lupe hopes one day to make her family's biggest dreams come true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10541512\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10541512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15291_Jorge-and-Lupe-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge and Lupe Herrera are devoted siblings, in spite of differences in immigration status. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“Between Homelands” is a series produced in partnership with students from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism. They’re bringing us stories of people living in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cindi Alvitre walks across the parking lot at California State University, Long Beach, she sees the asphalt, the buildings and the rows of cars. But she also sees something else. In her mind’s eye, she sees \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mXuBnmTms\" target=\"_blank\">Puvungna\u003c/a>, the sprawling tribal territory overlooking the Pacific Ocean that was once home to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tongvapeople.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Tongva \u003c/a>people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I walk around, I live in two worlds,” says Alvitre. “The other one is a constant conversation with nature and with the ancestors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre’s ancestors were the dominant culture here until the Spanish conquest. In fact, the entire Los Angeles basin and beyond -- from the hills of downtown L.A. to the beaches of Catalina Island -- is the ancestral homeland of the Tongva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Alvitre is one of fewer than 2,000 remaining Tongvan descendants. The tribe is still seeking federal recognition. And in a region that’s been home for millennia, some contemporary Tongva struggle to find their place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205685563\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are struggling, Alvitre, 60, is a pillar of cultural strength, helping them to connect with their indigenous roots. She talks about how the Tongva were ocean people, living in huts by the beach, wearing grass skirts and shells, and diving for abalone. And when she needs to reconnect, she goes to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature is a comfort zone,” she says. “To sit on a rock, out at the end of the jetty, to go in the water, to watch the seals and the sea lions … [it’s healing] just to be back in the natural world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre traces her sense of connection back to her father. He filled her childhood with stories of the past. On car rides through Southern California, he would point out Tongva burial sites and former villages, or spots where her Indian grandfather once foraged for medicinal plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always told, ‘This is your home. Your ancestors are from this home, and this is where they are buried,’ ” she says, remembering hikes with her dad. “When he walked through there, he would tell us, ‘Shh, don’t talk loud. This is a sacred place.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527442\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527442\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1440x941.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how the beach sand and the grassy hills -- and even the land under L.A. high-rises and strip malls -- became embedded with ancestral meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre took this knowledge into her life’s work. She is a professor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/\">American Indian Studies\u003c/a> at Cal State University, Long Beach. And she was the first female chair of the Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, nearly 30 years ago, her ancestors came to her in a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dream, a massive Tongvan warrior emerged from the mounds of the Saddleback Mountains. Beneath the mountains, a lake formed. Native Americans paddled across the lake in wooden canoes while speaking to each other in the Tongva language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as the rowers found their cadence, paddling in synchronicity, the warrior’s eyes opened, the mountains parted and the canoes set forth onto the ocean, toward Catalina Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this amazing vision of mountains that I grew up around in Orange County, but here [are] these boats I’ve never seen,” says Alvitre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, she got a call from Jim Noyes of the California Indigenous Maritime Association. He asked if she’d be interested in reviving her tribe’s naval culture by building a \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> -- a traditional Tongvan canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He described the boat in my dreams,” Alvitre says. “I was really blown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noyes and Alvitre joined forces then to start the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/marcus-lopez-tiat-restoration-orientation/\" target=\"_blank\">Ti’at Society\u003c/a>. The group built Moomat Ahiko (Tongvan for “Breath of the Ocean”) -– the first and only modern \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10526216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10526216 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This spring, after more than two decades of use, Moomat Ahiko underwent repairs. At Cal State, Long Beach -- the former site of the village of Puvungna -- Ti’at Society members met every Sunday to restore the boat. They fixed leaks, gave it a chestnut-colored stain and painted a red ochre around its glittering abalone accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre and her group displayed the new and improved \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"http://web.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/american_indian_services/pow_wow/\">45\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Annual Cal State Puvugna Pow Wow\u003c/a> in March. Moomat Ahiko was a focal point amid the singers, drum circles and throngs of dancers dressed in the regalia of many tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next destination for Moomat Ahiko is the ocean. Members of the Ti’at Society plan to return the boat to the water in a ceremony this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony will allow more Tongva to connect with the ocean -- and with their heritage. For Alvitre, that connection is so key to her identity that Moomat Ahiko is tattooed on her arm. Through immersing herself in Tongvan maritime culture, she’s unlocked a passion that feels like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life,” says Alvitre. “This is the language I feel comfortable speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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This is a sacred place.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527442\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527442\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1440x941.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how the beach sand and the grassy hills -- and even the land under L.A. high-rises and strip malls -- became embedded with ancestral meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre took this knowledge into her life’s work. She is a professor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/\">American Indian Studies\u003c/a> at Cal State University, Long Beach. And she was the first female chair of the Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, nearly 30 years ago, her ancestors came to her in a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dream, a massive Tongvan warrior emerged from the mounds of the Saddleback Mountains. Beneath the mountains, a lake formed. Native Americans paddled across the lake in wooden canoes while speaking to each other in the Tongva language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as the rowers found their cadence, paddling in synchronicity, the warrior’s eyes opened, the mountains parted and the canoes set forth onto the ocean, toward Catalina Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this amazing vision of mountains that I grew up around in Orange County, but here [are] these boats I’ve never seen,” says Alvitre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, she got a call from Jim Noyes of the California Indigenous Maritime Association. He asked if she’d be interested in reviving her tribe’s naval culture by building a \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> -- a traditional Tongvan canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He described the boat in my dreams,” Alvitre says. “I was really blown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noyes and Alvitre joined forces then to start the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/marcus-lopez-tiat-restoration-orientation/\" target=\"_blank\">Ti’at Society\u003c/a>. The group built Moomat Ahiko (Tongvan for “Breath of the Ocean”) -– the first and only modern \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10526216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10526216 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This spring, after more than two decades of use, Moomat Ahiko underwent repairs. At Cal State, Long Beach -- the former site of the village of Puvungna -- Ti’at Society members met every Sunday to restore the boat. They fixed leaks, gave it a chestnut-colored stain and painted a red ochre around its glittering abalone accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre and her group displayed the new and improved \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"http://web.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/american_indian_services/pow_wow/\">45\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Annual Cal State Puvugna Pow Wow\u003c/a> in March. Moomat Ahiko was a focal point amid the singers, drum circles and throngs of dancers dressed in the regalia of many tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next destination for Moomat Ahiko is the ocean. Members of the Ti’at Society plan to return the boat to the water in a ceremony this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony will allow more Tongva to connect with the ocean -- and with their heritage. For Alvitre, that connection is so key to her identity that Moomat Ahiko is tattooed on her arm. Through immersing herself in Tongvan maritime culture, she’s unlocked a passion that feels like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life,” says Alvitre. “This is the language I feel comfortable speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“Between Homelands” is a series produced in partnership with students from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism. They’re bringing us stories of people living in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All immigrants to this country face uncertainty, but most can rely on having an embassy or consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kurdish people, however, have no recognized nation of their own. They come from ethnic homelands without defined borders. What they call Kurdistan is split up among Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, no embassy exists for them in the United States or anywhere else. In Los Angeles, Kurds are scattered across the vast Southland, in Westwood, the San Fernando Valley, Central Los Angeles and Pasadena. There’s no Kurdish equivalent of L.A.’s Koreatown or Little Ethiopia. Here, as in the Middle East, they are dispersed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204598149″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Luqman Barwari, a restaurant owner and Kurdish Iraqi immigrant, is trying to change that. Two years ago he created Niroj Kurdish Cuisine in Agoura Hills, after leaving a decades-long career in biotech. The restaurant is an unofficial embassy, one aimed at keeping his culture alive and the local Kurdish people united.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we feel like we’re not fully rooted in the system, or in the culture, or in the soil, because we were not born here,” says Barwari.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant owner and chef Luqman Barwari on Kurdish New Year at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine. \" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-1440x902.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-1180x739.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3-960x602.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restaurant owner and chef Luqman Barwari on Kurdish New Year at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Niroj, in some ways, feels like home. When visitors open the front door on the restaurant’s livelier evenings, they are transported by strains of live Kurdish music and the aromas of Barwari’s complex, home-style dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one such night, master tembûr (fretted, steel-stringed lute) musician Raman Osman, from Syria’s Kurdish region, serenades tables packed with Kurds and non-Kurds. Some of the patrons cannot help but start a line dance that twists through the tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari greets friends and guests while darting in and out of the closed kitchen to watch over his \u003ci>kubbeh \u003c/i>soup, a Kurdish-Israeli dish. He makes it with semolina, beef or lamb dumplings, and organic vegetables, including beets, okra, chard and chickpeas. For dessert, he serves fried goat cheese drizzled with honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Niroj Kurdish Cuisine serves kubbeh soup, with beef, okra and semolina dumplings, on Kurdish New Year, March 29, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-1440x925.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-960x617.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niroj Kurdish Cuisine serves kubbeh soup, with beef, okra and semolina dumplings, on Kurdish New Year, March 29, 2015. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food, music and camaraderie make Niroj Kurdish Cuisine a place of unity, an unofficial embassy presided over by Barwari, its unofficial ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some nights Barwari cannot forget about relentless conflicts and suffering in Kurdistan. Painful news from home and fading childhood memories draw his mind and heart back to his homeland in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari was born in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. He came to the United States in the 1970s as a teenager, when his family fled political violence. His childhood village was later destroyed in Iraq’s al-Anfal campaign, known as the Kurdish genocide. Now, some of Barwari’s relatives in Iraq are members of the Kurdish \u003ci>peshmerga\u003c/i>, fighting the Islamic State (ISIS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he planned a party to celebrate the liberation of the northern Syrian town of Kobane from ISIS, he saw the horrible news on Facebook. His cousin was killed while fighting ISIS near Mosul, Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart sunk when I saw his picture,” Barwari says. “I couldn’t believe it. How do you celebrate when people are still being killed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-400x248.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-1440x891.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-960x594.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As ongoing hostilities threaten Kurdish people and their heritage at home, Niroj invigorates a piece of Kurdistan in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari says “the memories stay alive” when his restaurant brings people together to eat \u003ci>kubbeh\u003c/i> soup and listen to Kurdish music. And that motivates him to have a place like Niroj — a place where Kurds can celebrate their culture.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For dessert, he serves fried goat cheese drizzled with honey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Niroj Kurdish Cuisine serves kubbeh soup, with beef, okra and semolina dumplings, on Kurdish New Year, March 29, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-800x514.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-1440x925.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4-960x617.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Kurds4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niroj Kurdish Cuisine serves kubbeh soup, with beef, okra and semolina dumplings, on Kurdish New Year, March 29, 2015. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food, music and camaraderie make Niroj Kurdish Cuisine a place of unity, an unofficial embassy presided over by Barwari, its unofficial ambassador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some nights Barwari cannot forget about relentless conflicts and suffering in Kurdistan. Painful news from home and fading childhood memories draw his mind and heart back to his homeland in an instant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari was born in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. He came to the United States in the 1970s as a teenager, when his family fled political violence. His childhood village was later destroyed in Iraq’s al-Anfal campaign, known as the Kurdish genocide. Now, some of Barwari’s relatives in Iraq are members of the Kurdish \u003ci>peshmerga\u003c/i>, fighting the Islamic State (ISIS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he planned a party to celebrate the liberation of the northern Syrian town of Kobane from ISIS, he saw the horrible news on Facebook. His cousin was killed while fighting ISIS near Mosul, Iraq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart sunk when I saw his picture,” Barwari says. “I couldn’t believe it. How do you celebrate when people are still being killed?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10518808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-400x248.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-1440x891.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001-960x594.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/kurds001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurdish and United States flags fly at Niroj Kurdish Cuisine’s bar. \u003ccite>(Taylor Haney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As ongoing hostilities threaten Kurdish people and their heritage at home, Niroj invigorates a piece of Kurdistan in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barwari says “the memories stay alive” when his restaurant brings people together to eat \u003ci>kubbeh\u003c/i> soup and listen to Kurdish music. And that motivates him to have a place like Niroj — a place where Kurds can celebrate their culture.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her native country of Nigeria, CY Dieyi is a pop star. But she’s not well known in Los Angeles, where she currently lives. It’s a place where there are many talented musicians, but fame is often elusive. However, for CY, music isn’t necessarily about fame. It’s an expression of her identity, a connection to her roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many of her friends from back home, CY’s music sounds “a bit too Western.” To counteract that claim, she has made choices in her songwriting to infuse the music with instrumental nuances that will connect to Nigerian culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203512926\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two of her popular songs that have played on Nigerian radio, “Puzzle Pieces” and “One Day,” we can hear elaborate background vocals that evoke a tribal chorus and indigenous drums with ethnic cadences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since coming to America, CY has struggled to hold onto that musical connection to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My music is supposed to be me,\" CY says. \"It’s supposed to be my thing, and part of who I am is a Nigerian. And if I’m not able to do that in my music then, you know, it’s like, ‘What’s the point?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10508225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1103px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10508225 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook.jpg\" alt='Singer CY is trying to crossover into the United States, while keeping what she calls her \"Nigerian sound.\"' width=\"1103\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook.jpg 1103w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CY-Dieyi-from-Facebook-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1103px) 100vw, 1103px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singer CY is trying to cross over into the United States, while keeping what she calls her \"Nigerian sound.\" \u003ccite>(Cynthia Dieyi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a conference of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), CY says, she met a Chicago producer who was eager to work with her on a five-song EP. She flew to Chicago, and the first song they worked on together was called “Lazy Girl.” It’s an upbeat pop tune that turned out sounding more like something we might hear on the radio from Rihanna or Beyonce. CY says this particular producer wouldn’t take any of her creativity into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wouldn’t leave room for those things that I identify myself with,\" CY explains. So the end result was a version of “Lazy Girl” that was completely stripped of “her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m on the outside looking in,” she says of her reaction to the finished product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that unsuccessful trip, CY came back to Los Angeles to regroup. Since then, she’s been performing at open mic nights around town and on campus at the University of Southern California, where she’s studying to earn a master’s degree in public relations. She’s continuing to write songs for her EP. Despite initial struggles to maintain her authentic Nigerian sound, she herself has noticed a shift in inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m afraid I might be transitioning away from sounds that are that ethnic, and that bothers me,” CY admits. The song she’s currently working on, “Falling Into You,” explores a universal theme about unrequited love between friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Falling Into You” is noticeably different from her other self-proclaimed “ethnic-sounding” songs, which signals a stylistic departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her musicality evolves, CY says she never wants to stop creating. Her next major goal is to complete that EP, regardless of whether she finds a producer who understands her style or has to do it alone. 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Sepetjian hopes his class will help keep the language alive. \u003ccite>(Andy Vasoyan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has Western Armenian on its \u003ca href=\"www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/\">endangered languages list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day languages die,\" Sepetjian says. \"I'm not saying it's close, or soon, or in 10 years, but that day will come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western Armenian came close to dying on April 24, 1915. 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