What happens when we stop imagining cities as separate from Indigenous land?

In Episode 4 of Reclaiming Our Stories: Voices of Indigenous Peoples of California, host Victorio L. Shaw speaks with Cindi Alvitre (Tongva) and Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) about Native presence, belonging, and responsibility within urban California.

Together, they challenge the assumption that Indigenous identity exists only in rural or historically distant spaces. Instead, they reflect on cities as layered homelands—places where Native communities continue to live, organize, teach, create ceremony, sustain kinship, and practice care.

The episode explores migration, relocation, urban Native community-building, cultural continuity, and the everyday labor that sustains Indigenous life  ...