After delays, the first people of Orange County have preserved a piece of their ancestral village [latimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/15/2110:58 AM

By Ben Brazil, Photo: Don Leach/Times Community News, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2021

A few years ago, Adelia Sandoval sat at the foot of an old oak tree and pondered the resilience of her people, the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians.

The spiritual leader and her tribe, considered to be the original people of Orange County, had been fighting for years to preserve a small portion of the land surrounding the old oak. The Mother Tree, as she called it, was rooted on the grounds of one of the first Native American settlements in what became Orange County, the 65-acre Northwest Open Space in San Juan Capistrano. With several delays from the city, tribal leaders had questioned whether the land would ever be preserved.

But Sandoval continued to show faith in her people. “Resilience is in our nature,” she said in 2019.

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