The Turtle Story, a Native American Account of Earthquakes

"The Turtle Story" is a Native American accounting of how earthquakes occur, told by storyteller and USC alumna Jacque Tahuka-Nunez (tribal descendant of the Acjachemen Nation), filmed by SCEC UseIT interns. The story comes from the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe, a California Indian Tribe also known as the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians. This project is part of the "Native California is Earthquake Country" partnership between SCEC and the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, CA. Jacque is also the director of Journeys to the Past (www.journeystothepast.com/inde...) which seeks to educate and enlighten others to our precious culture while encouraging them to capture their own heritage.
Storyteller: Jacque Tahuka-Nunez
Song: Gabrielino-Tongva Ancestor Song
Musician/Singer: Virginia Carmelo (Gabrielino-Tongva tribal member)
Filmed and edit by: David Bolen, Jonathan Ho, Ben Anderson (SCEC UseIT Interns)
Set Design: Ed Nunez, Lawrence Garcia
Executive Producers: Dr. Robert de Groot, Helen Corral-Bonner
Special Thanks: Sherman Indian High School
A production of Southern California Earthquake Center.

[@mynormorales9301]

Ms.Jacque came to my son's school and they did a few different native activities including basket weaving it was great and also fun

[@momarcie87]

Clearly understood plate tectonics long long ago. We need to listen and incorporate these stories. What a wonderful story.

[@JamesQHolden]

how did they understand plate tectonics? source? where can i read more about this to show friends

[@mackenziepeek9317]

All ancient civilizations understood this world and universe more than we give them credit for. You are talking to this day still some of the great mapping of the stars. Some of the greatest feats of engineering still unreplicated today. I truly believe our ancestors knew more than we do today and we should genuinely listen to what they had to teach

[@chunky9791]

Thank you so much for your video. I am of Native American descent, and it was very special watching this with my children.

[@equarg]

Never ignore ancient local legends involving natural disasters. When the Indonesian quake/tsunami hit, one old isolated tribe survived (no one died despite the village being destroyed). In their culture they believe the earth rests on a giant tree. Sometimes demons come and shake the tree, causing earthquakes. If they shake very hard, the land and sea gods can fight over territory due to the disturbance. The best thing to do after a strong quake, and see the waves retreat, was to run to the highest parts of the land. Then wait about 24hours till the land and sea gods come to a peace agreement after the battle. The land and sea boundaries will be changed........ AMAZING HOW ANCIENT STORIES LIKE THIS MIRROR ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC EVENTS SOMETIMES! Especially the advice so many need to know.

[@bryanharoldfuller8877]

Beautiful Beautiful story. I love the video. And you. Told the tale perfectly

[@blancaplasenciacorrea9896]

Beautiful, I love it. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing story.

[@godschildyes]

Wow! I just love this! I have always appreciated her storytelling! She is so animated and full up spirit. She really has a gift to draw you into the story and you focus on nothing else. Everything just comes alive!

[@RMcGeeProductions]

Very well done presentation! Thank you!

[@joannetetrault6095]

Excellent Storyteller!!!

[@kriskadobermiller9293]

Thank you! THANK YOU

[@annasalmans5523]

Beautiful ❤ Thank you for sharing ❤️

[@thefrontporchpulpit6197]

Much love sister May God our Father and Creator in Heaven bless you abundantly

[@marissaortiz2558]

So cool!

[@MissLionRose]

Wonderful storytelling! :)

[@marimasinghateh908]

thank you so much i dident now that but now i now it

[@eunyoung9369]

This will help me in social studies thank you

[@equarg]

Geologists are now examining old Native American legends to get a better understanding of areas geological histories. The Pacific Northwest tribes legends of the Great Killer Whale and the Thunderbird battles coincide well with tsunami/ massive earthquake events! Heck older legends, specifically near Oregon, tell of when a brave warrior defeated an ever erupting volcano........surrounding the Oregon Crater Lake. The legend is found to describe the before, during, and after effects of the volcano's eruption, even describing the collapse. Never discredit local ancient legends. There is a grain of truth to most of them!

[@thefrontporchpulpit6197]

My Brother much love May God our Father and Creator in Heaven bless you

[@billhosko7723]

@@thefrontporchpulpit6197 Good grief.

[@trfggyhui9173]

Todag the lady went to may school and we made backets it was fun

[@tomm5587]

Loves It .

[@lpsshadowtvvanessa3888]

cool! turtles are kinda my favorite!😝😝💖👍

[@samanthareynoso5561]

this helped with my C.A mission project

[@nenna9887]

Thank you for posting!

[@flaviamarchesoni1284]

❤

[@bryanharoldfuller8877]

The great floating city

[@erinsquire2749]

I live in California to

[@YankeesOutdoorAdventures]

Excellent story, perfectly executed😁 keep up the excellent work👍

[@brianwagar19]

This story makes sense

[@ryanmenzel75]

Turtles are the masters of earth!!!!!

[@Aborichinal]

The Olmecs understood this long ago. Turtles have always been highlighted as important.

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

The olmecs?

[@stefanbas6181]

I love all indigenous people’s content !

[@raynameadows2152]

Love you so much Aunt Jacque!! @JacqueTahukaNunez ❤❤❤

[@3alexnat]

While this blog refers to the specific place name of Misión Vieja or Old Mission as the first European site established in Los Angeles County, there was thousands of years of habitation in the area by the native indigenous peoples. While these first settlers are often called Gabrieleño (or Gabrieliño), because of their "association" with the Mission San Gabriel, which started at Misión Vieja in 1771 but relocated to the current site within a few years because of flooding from the San Gabriel River, a more recent appellation has been Tongva. This latter term, however, has no real historical basis, whereas the name Kizh does have a legitimacy in the record and will be used here. For example, in William McCawley's 1996 book, The First Angelinos, he cites the statement of Raimundo Yorba, who was a consultant to the archaeologist John P. Harrington stated to him that the natives living in the Old Mission area were "what they called a Kichireño, one of a bunch of people that lived at that place just this side of San Gabriel which is known as the Misión Vieja. Kichireño is not a placename, but a tribename, the name of a kind of people." While the Kizh/Gabrieleño, like most so-called pre-literate peoples throughout the world, did not have a written language, they, naturally, had an oral one. This, in turn, meant that there was a vast oral record passed down through the generations among the Kizh/Gabrieleño, having to do with their religious beliefs, history, cultural and social practices, and much else. The fact that these attributes were not written down do not, in any way, make them subordinate to the written word-it is simply a different way of recording. www.gabrielenoindians.org

[@robertthepuppy6088]

I saw u in my social studies book

[@Roger-cp9ry]

Ojibwa native

[@f.m.2909]

Im watching dis on a google meet XD

[@dontevenaskjr3395]

Hi miss Jackie remember me from the good Shepard Lutheran school

[@thefrontporchpulpit6197]

His flock knows the Good Shepards voice

[@ipadstjoseph7644]

Siiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[@omnamahshivayom5691]

Koorma (Koorma means tortoise in Sanskrit) avatar of Hindu belief explained beautifully...

[@bassline5633]

Where can I find this story?

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[@koihy2744]

Good job ms jackie

[@dianekeller6604]

Nice.would.love.to.here.more.she.seem.kool

[@bryanharoldfuller8877]

They flew away. Out into the abyss

[@brianwagar4512]

Techtonic

[@destineyhale912]

This sounds like a different version of KEYA

[@erinsquire2749]

and California,s we wild fire to

[@actaerucerichie9419]

In 1500, the Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo wrote a book about a Muslim queen warrior known as Califia. Its name derives from the Arabic word "Khalifah", leader of meaning, which was pronounced "Califa" in Spanish. Montalvo has named the land of it "California", which means "Land of Califia". When the Spaniards explored the coast of Baja California,

[@86abruzzo]

None of what you said makes sense.. he wrote a book about a Muslim queen when he was exploring the native colonies.. unless I'm missing something that makes no sense.. what Muslim queen, from where? Why did he name the land area of the natives after her, what's the correlation?

[@churlburt8485]

Paige , Tavie

[@trfggyhui9173]

The lady miss jackey

[@BigJim213]

Mayu

[@brianwagar4512]

So old

[@notoriousei9650]

''there were blk so-called indians doing those times we were all family - my ppl are indigenous to this land !!!

[@billhosko7723]

Good grief. No people are indigenous to this land.

[@h1nsicon]

​@@billhosko7723there are

[@dablb]

1:30 tortoises cant swim tho...🤔

[@calvinlam7272]

Right, they’re mainly land animals while turtles are amphibious (good on both land & water) and sea turtles are mainly aquatic with females only coming to land to lay eggs 🐢

[@HugoLebailly-im3rf]

Ça pue la merde on s’ennuie tah les fous durant notre cours

[@mickeywicked478]

“Pregnant Goat Woman of the West Coast”, look it up. ‘The Big One’ is is going to be caused by her climax and subsequent contractions.

[@billhosko7723]

good grief. goat woman or not, there will be 'a big one', someday...

[@girishverma2325]

doesn't help at all

[@adamelkhattabi4759]

looking the american girl from omeg ...

[@allaboutcrystal3581]

She not aboriginal she white

[@garrettgonzales7614]

ALL ABOUT CRYSTAL Most ignorant comment. Didn’t know Natives had a skin tone to determine their culture and beliefs

[@laurafire196]

Do you speak her language?can you prove her lineage? Rude! Natives can be light or dark and many have mixed with other races it's 2020! Be respectful towards her passing her ancestral stories down to you!

[@billhosko7723]

@@laurafire196 Good grief. The original opinion is that, an opinion. No more no less than yours.