December 29, 2021

Task force presses Irvine for museum to honor first people of Orange County

Author: Ben Brazil

Many of the ancestral artifacts of the original people of Orange County lie hidden away in storage, waiting to see the light of day.
The important cultural relics tell the story of the JuaneƱo Band of Mission Indians, whose sacred sites and traditional lands were plundered, desecrated and devoured by development.
But a cohort of community and tribal members is working toward finding a home for the artifacts, pressing the city of Irvine to create a cultural and natural history museum in the Great...