Sequoyah School Celebrates Indigenous People’s Day

This morning Sequoyah High School gathered to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and marked the beginning of a month-long celebration where the Sequoyah community will give life to the Tongva Case, a community-based art collaboration that was started last year between both the high school and K-8 campuses.

Last year, high school students visited the K-8 campus and led workshops with K-4 students to honor the Tongva language. They watched the short animated film, Tovaangar and learned about the Tongva people who have inhabited the territory that you know today as the Los Angeles Basin and Southern California Channel Islands. They also learned a series of Tongva words together and built some components that this year will become part of the Tongva Case, which was activated at today’s high school Morning Meeting.

This project represents the Sequoyah way of participating in a language revitalization project and acknowledges that they are on the traditional territory of the Tongva. The Tongva Case will travel to the K8 during the month of November.

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