Collective Memory Flows Like Water At Kuruvungna

As part of the Endless Wellspring program done in collaboration with the Gabrielino Tongva Springs Foundation and the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), I contributed a journal entry about the ecological stewardship and the role collective memory has in tending to Kuruvungna, a sacred village site for the Gabrielino Tongva peoples.

Excerpt:

Guided by the grounded hands of Bob Ramirez, president of GTSF and Daniel Ramirez, chair of the Land and Waters Committee, and Kuruvungna volunteers have cultivated the land at Kuruvungna Village Springs over the past five years with care. It now flourishes with plant relatives like deergrass, clarkias, lupines, fuchsia, sycamores, willows, sages, endemic plants of Pimungna, and palms from Cahuilla homelands.

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Teosintli seeds

Last year, teosintli – the grandmother of maize – took root, carrying ancestral memory into the present.

Arroyo Lupine

With these seedlings and plantings, pollinators returned, weaving threads of life back into the waters and soil.