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location_onBig Pine Reservation
location_onBig Pine Reserveration tribal
members appeared at the LADWP
Board of Commissioners meeting to
hold the agency accountable for a
broken pipe in 2017. This map shows where the pipe ran.
location_onCamp Independence
Camp Independence, now Ft. Independence Reservation,
is the site where the U.S. Army gathered
Nüümü and Newe whom they forced to Ft. Tejon.
location_onBishop Indian School, Bishop Reservation
Bishop Indian School, formerly
Independence School, was the local
school for Nüümü and Newe, ca 1900-30
location_onAlabama Gates Spillway Occupation
In November 1924, local ranchers and
farmers, outraged by the diversion of
waters from Patsiata/Owens Lake,
dynamited the Alabama Gates.
location_onLacey Ranch
Mark Lacey, Owens Valley Committee member,
ranches near Manzanar.
location_onLone Pine Paiute Shoshone Reservation
Kathy Jefferson Bancroft's homeland. Here she has a laugh with Nüümü kids. location_onMono Lake Kutzadika’a Tribal lands
Lands of tribal members near Mono Lake.
location_onLA Aqueduct Intake
This is where the Owens River flows into the LA Aqueduct and is marked
with its year of construction, 1911. It was "turned on" in 1913.
location_onProposed LADWP Solar Ranch
LADWP proposed a solar ranch across
from Manzanar, and this project was
put on hold indefinitely in 2015.
Manzanar National
Historic Site
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