{"id":19151,"date":"2024-04-04T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=19151"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T00:18:38","slug":"tongva-tiat-finds-permanent-exhibit-at-altasea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/tongva-tiat-finds-permanent-exhibit-at-altasea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient canoe revival highlights Indigenous sustainability practices and ocean conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/Tiat_AltaSea_Top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/Tiat_AltaSea_Top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/Tiat_AltaSea_Top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/Tiat_AltaSea_Top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Several tanned, shirtless men row a plank canoe called a ti'at in unison across dark blue ocean water with Catalina Island in the background.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Members of the Ti\u2019at Society paddle their traditional Tongva plank canoe, Moomat Ahiko (\u201cBreath of the Ocean\u201d), off the coast of Southern California\u2019s Santa Catalina Island. (Photo: Frank Magallanes and Althea Edwards.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=arts-and-culture\">Arts and Culture<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Ancient canoe revival highlights Indigenous sustainability practices and ocean conservation<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  The first Tongva \u201cti\u2019at\u201d built in centuries finds a permanent exhibit and helps highlight Native American sustainable maritime traditions.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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<p><strong>The Tongva tribe, the original inhabitants<\/strong> of Los Angeles and Orange Counties and the Southern Channel Islands off California\u2019s coast, faced cultural erasure during colonial times as Spanish settlers moved into the area. The Tongva lost many of their traditions, including sustainable living practices that could be valuable today.<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.usc.edu\/assignment-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-16067\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric-150x150.png\" alt=\"On a gold background, &quot;Asgmt Earth&quot; appears inside a black circle and &quot;USC&quot; inside a small, white circle that slightly overlaps the black circle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric-320x320.png 320w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/AE_News-Rubric.png 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A grant from the Library of Congress<\/strong> to researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences aims to broaden understanding of the tribe\u2019s sustainable practices while restoring knowledge and understanding of the Tongva\u2019s ancient customs and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Preserving Native American traditions is key to understanding California history, and raising awareness of Indigenous ecological knowledge could help safeguard oceans and foster sustainability, especially as the planet confronts climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In her words:<\/strong> \u201cThis is an effort to reclaim a chapter of California\u2019s history that has been lost,\u201d said archaeologist <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/lynn-dodd\/\">Lynn Dodd,<\/a> professor of religion and spatial sciences at USC Dornsife. \u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019re breathing life back into a tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dodd secured a $50,000<\/strong> Library of Congress grant to fund the collaboration between USC scholars and members of the Ti\u2019at Society, which was established to restore a traditional Tongva canoe called a \u201cti\u2019at\u201d and revive their ancient maritime practices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The grant enabled the team to research Tongva artifacts at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Libraries<\/a>, collaborating with the Ti\u2019at Society, will create a digitized archive of Tongva photos, documents, knowledge and memories for the American Folklife Center.<\/li>\n<li>The Ti\u2019at Society will launch an educational program with workshops on Tongva maritime traditions and boat building at <a href=\"https:\/\/altasea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AltaSea<\/a>, an ocean research center located in the Port of Los Angeles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cindi Alvitre<\/strong>, co-founder of the Ti\u2019at Society and professor of American Indian studies at California State University, Long Beach, said the grant will improve understanding of the interplay between climate change, urban development and Indigenous cultures, which is \u201ckey to reviving our heritage and preserving the future of the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoom in:<\/strong> The Tongva, who inhabited Catalina Island for millennia, relied on ti\u2019ats \u2014 plank canoes that stretched 20 feet and more \u2014 to obtain food from the ocean and conduct trade along the California coast.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Spanish conquest beginning in 1769 brought an end to ti\u2019at construction for centuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What else?<\/strong> The grant supported moving the first ti\u2019at built since the 1800s from storage to AltaSea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On April 6, the Ti\u2019at Society \u2014 comprising members of the Tongva, Chumash and other tribal communities \u2014 is hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/altasea-open-house-the-tiat-society-shares-history-of-moomat-ahiko-tickets-859110391307?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an event<\/a> at AltaSea to celebrate the arrival of the ti\u2019at and honor the Tongva people and their seafaring heritage and ocean stewardship.<\/li>\n<li>The event will include hands-on workshops, demonstrations of traditional knowledge of sustainable plant use, and an exhibit of images and videos showing the ti\u2019at\u2019s construction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The backstory:<\/strong> Tongva descendant Alvitre said she was inspired by a vision to establish the Ti\u2019at Society and collaborate with Indigenous boat-builders to construct a full-size, ocean-going ti\u2019at.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The last Chumash boat builder, Fernando Librado (also known as Kitsepawit), showed his craft to anthropologist John Peabody Harrington in the early 20th century.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropologist Travis Hudson of the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum later used Harrington\u2019s notes to rebuild a Chumash plank canoe in the 1970s.<\/li>\n<li>The Chumash canoe helped guide the Ti\u2019at Society\u2019s construction beginning in the late 1980s.<\/li>\n<li>Named Moomat Ahiko (\u201cBreath of the Ocean\u201d), the society\u2019s ti\u2019at was completed in 1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The boat\u2019s construction<\/strong> reflects the diversity of California\u2019s native landscape, using traditional materials like redwood for the planks from the Karuk Tribe along the Klamath River, plant fiber for cords, and naturally occurring tar called asphaltum for adhesion and waterproofing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to watch: <\/strong>The partnership between AltaSea and the Tongva connects the Indigenous practice of kelp forest cultivation to the research USC Dornsife Professor of Biological Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/sergey-nuzhdin\/\">Sergey Nuzhdin<\/a> conducts at his AltaSea-based <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/nlab\/\">aquaculture lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cUniting social and natural scientists with local Indigenous people allows us to integrate traditional ecological knowledge of the kelp ecosystem with sustainability research and education,\u201d Nuzhdin said.<\/li>\n<li>Nuzhdin\u2019s team has already begun collaborating with Indigenous people in California and Alaska to restore the endangered North Sea palm kelp, a vital food and medicine source for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n   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