Indigenous Education Across Tovaangar: Past, Present, Trans-Indigenous, and Future Horizons

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In the Gabrielino/Tongva language, Tovaangar means “the world” and geographically represents the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands. This presidential session brings together Tongva, Acjachemen, and Kanaka Maoli scholars and leaders to discuss Southern California–based efforts and movements in relation to Indigenous education and sovereignty across past, present, Trans-Indigenous, and future horizons. Speakers will address the #LandBack and land-tax movements, Southern California mission schools, the uptake of institutional land acknowledgements, and critiques of land-grant institutions’ expropriation of Indigenous lands, waters, and Peoples. The session poses the following central questions: What becomes possible when unforgetting is led by Tribal communities and accountable to Indigenous homelands? How do sovereignty and self-determination shape decolonial futures?

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Ananda M. Marin, University of California - Los Angeles

Panelists

• Theresa J. Stewart-Ambo, University of California - Los Angeles

• Kelly Leah Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles

• Kēhaulani Vaughn, University of California - Riverside

• Charles Sepulveda, The University of Utah