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Skateboard Sense
Does this 1976 video make you nostalgic for the days of shredding in your elbow pads and tube socks?
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A hypothetical Interstate 1 would trace North America’s western margin, where the Pacific foams against a fractured landmass.
Prickly Pear
A brief introduction to the original California cuisine.
Mabel McKay
Traditional Environmental Knowledge includes education and activism. Mabel McKay embodied both.
Wildomar Map
The boomtime of 1887 had a fluid, phantasmagoric quality, as if scripted by Tim Burton.
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One of California's most common freshwater wetland plants was — and is — one of its most useful resources.
1852 presidential and vice-presidential candidates
Neither candidate took much notice of Los Angeles during the 1852 presidential campaign – and why would they? The City of Angels was then a dusty adobe village of some 2,000 souls, a frontier outpost within a state worth only four electoral votes.
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The last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language hasn't stopped working to keep her language alive.  
Map of Pio Pico's lands published by the Pio Pico State Historic Park
If you call L.A., Orange, or San Diego County home, you may well live on one of Pico's former ranchos.
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"When you start blessing people and doing ceremonies with white sage, you're messing with our land."
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"Nothing we do is primitive. Everything comes from thousands of years of skill, knowledge, community and working together."
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In a time when Día de los Muertos is being misrepresented due to its commercialization as “Mexican Halloween,” the “Noche de Ofrenda” event reminded those who attended of the true meaning of Día de los Muertos.
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