A Village Called Versailles, Clip 2 – 29.03.VIDEO.030B_SAAPI.AVillageCalledVersailles.LeoChiang

The people of Versailles and New Orleans East protest the lack of inclusion by the Bring New Orleans Back Commission. This was just one step in the community’s long fight for representation and community rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, which included a Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration with twenty thousand people.

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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.

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