Letter to the Editor: Celebrating Putuidem Village

JERRY NIEBLAS, San Juan Capistrano 1776. The lives, traditions, culture, religion, lands, villages and the family units of our Juaneno/Acjachemen ancestors comes to an abrupt and forceful ending as the result of the establishment of a “foreign” Spanish Mission!...

TimesOC: Original people of Orange County preserve ancestral land

Good morning and welcome to the TimesOC newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 8. I’m Ben Brazil, bringing you the latest roundup of Orange County news and events. For years, tribal members of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians fought to preserve a small slice of land to...