based artist who created“ portal for toangar, a monument that pays tribute to her ancestry, the gabrielinolifornia. >> it's about this continuum of presence in los angeles of the tongva people and other indigenous people there. what do we want to understand or reconnect with? and for me, that is like the cosmos, the sun, the stars. what is inscribed in the land, the history of the land, the plants, the people, the kind of legacy that is still here, still in los angeles. >> brown: she worked with an australian artist who goes by the one name, ¡sutu'-- an expert in virtual reality and other technologies. >> she does paintings. she works with artifacts and stones and shells and different things like this. and i wanted to make sure that we could bring all that into the digital world. she created a painting and took it on site and photographed it on site, which was super helpful. i was then able to take those photos and extract the painting from them and bring that into the program. brown: he used a combination of 3-d modeling, animation, and other tools to create the augmented reality of the p

community foundation; and the farvue foundation. ñgaaaaaaa woman: the islands that are connected to the gabrielinotongva are the southern channel islands. the most significant one is pimu santa catalina island. woman 2: sometimes, on a clear day like this, where you can see catalina, i can imagine my ancestors paddling back and forth from here. it really doesn't look that far. the ti'at was not just a vessel to go out into the water. it kept us in contact with tribes north and south of us, along the coast, and for the groups that also lived on the channel islands. woman everything is a relationship when you're building those boats. it's all a relationship that you establish with that boat. and then to put her in the water,