Owens Valley tribes honor a legacy of ‘beauty and suffering’ with historic site nomination “We want people to begin to see what we see — a sacred homeland of beauty and suffering,” says ...

The Los Angeles Water Bureau piped water from the Owens Valley to fill the reservoir at the St. Francis Dam and gradually removed the Paiute from their ancestral territory.

The 1974 movie “Chinatown” was inspired by the California water wars at the beginning of the 20th century as L.A. secured water rights in the Owens Valley. Today, climate change has impacted ...