History has not been kind to the Owens Valley.
Indigenous people called the Owens Valley “Payahuunadü,” or the land of flowing water, and settled along the banks of its river, creeks and springs more than 150 years ago. In the early 1900s, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power took control of the valley’s rich natural resource, which streamed through the plains at the foothills of the Eastern Sierra, to sustain an expanding megalopolis 200 miles south.
In 1942, the now dry, dusty valley became the infamous site for the Manzanar concentration camp, where more than 11,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated until 1945.
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By John R. Beyer
For the Victorville Daily Press
As I have written in past columns, there are places to which we are destined to travel without ever intending to go there.
One of my more memorable quotes, if I say so myself.
When we travel, there are times we are moving toward our destination when, on the way, another place shows up in front of us that is so intriguing, we must take a brief detour.
These places are often where true adventure awaits.
As a travel writer, I find myself in that realm quite often, and I find it reassuring. Just because I want to end up at one place, doesn’t mean I don’t want to find myself in a totally different place for a spell. That is what makes life exciting.
‘Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust’ World Premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
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InterSection Films is proud to announce the world premiere of “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust,” directed and produced by Ann Kaneko and produced by Jin Yoo-Kim, at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
An inspired and poetic portrait of a place and its people, “Manzanar, Diverted” follows intergenerational women from three communities who defend their land, their history and their culture from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles. In this fresh retelling of the L.A. water story, Native Americans, Japanese American WWII incarcerees and environmentalists form an unexpected alliance to preserve Payahuunadü (Owens Valley), “the land of flowing water.”
Council President Nury Martinez requested a report on the city's relationship with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California after a Times article detailed a pattern of accusations from women who worked there.
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