By naming it the Chief Ya'anna Learning Village, a school official said they will pay tribute to an Indigenous leader who offered refuge to Indigenous immigrants.
When Jamie Rocha and her family first visited the swath of undeveloped land in the Monterey Hills late last year, the grass was dead, the ground muddy.
In August, the Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America bought the land for $800,000 with the help of grants and nonprofit funding. The K-12 charter school in El Sereno intends to act as a steward for the land and establish the Chief Ya’anna Learning Village. Still, it feels a world away from the downtown bustle and car horns that make up the cacophony in the heart of Los Angeles.
The acreage was purchased by the Tzicatl Community Development Corp., the nonprofit organization that runs the Anahuacalmecac school, with funding from NDN Collective Landback Fund, Metabolic Studio and the TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation. Rocha said she wishes her grandmother was around to see what the school and the tribal nation had accomplished.
The school teaches a curriculum with a Nahuatl focus. Lessons are taught in English, Spanish and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The Rochas are Gabrielino Shoshone, also known as Tongva people and Natives to California, but Ya’anna Rocha also embraced Indigenous immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
“It’s entirely different today from what it looked like 100 years ago,” Aguilar said. “And so we want to understand that first.”
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