Historically-Rooted
Historically-Rooted
Honoring the Legacies of Those Who Came Before Us.
While formally established in 2018, TLC has been a Tribal vision since 1797.
The spirit of the Tataviam Land Conservancy was ignited by Fernandeño Tataviam leaders in the 18th century who took settling developers to court to protect their ancestral lands. In 2018, over two centuries later, the conservancy was established to safeguard and acquire Tataveaveat (“Tataviam Country”) homelands and restore unrestricted access back to the Tribe.
18TH CENTURY
When ancestors were enslaved in 1797, their identities, tied to features that were thousands of years old, were impacted but not destroyed. They practiced ceremony and culture in the privacy of their dorm cells.
19TH CENTURY
By the 1800s, these ancestors petitioned for land and received 18,000 acres from which they were evicted by 1900.
20TH CENTURY
In the 1900s, the ancestors requested access to their northern LA County homelands from the federal government, but to no avail.
21ST CENTURY
In the spirit of his father, Tribal President Rudy Ortega Jr. formally issued the filing of the TLC as a non-profit organization in 2018 to conserve Fernandeño Tataviam homelands.
