Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Learn how younger generations of the Tongva tribe are stewarding land to safeguard species.

This video is one of several on the subject of the extinction of the California grizzly bear and the Monarch specimen on display in our California: State of Nature exhibit. View the entire playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS14biAqBAtE9EOLxkNmtGD6c3JmG6RA12


Credits
Samantha Morales Johnson Yang, Seth Morales Johnson
Producer: Molly Michelson
Videographer: Erik Krumrey
Additional video: Jay Lamars
Stock footage and music: Pond5.com

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