{"id":"HEALY2026-001","label":"Founders Oak, brought back to life","people_or_site":"Alan Salazar, storyteller in the tradition of the Tongva, Chumash and Tataviam; Founders Oak Island, Pacific Palisades","country_current":"United States","historic_region":"Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California","macroregion":"North America / California","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A bullroarer swung high overhead; form and material unrecorded.","function_summary":"Swung to open the rededication of Founders Oak Island after the 2025 wildfire, with an offering of sage and tobacco, \"to bring back to life\".","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"healy2026_founders_oak","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d79bf7da6a2504ccd3dd75c/t/699f7c106835093e5b4e0672/1772059664120/PPHS%2BNewsletter%2BFeb.%2B2026%2BV6.pdf","page_or_plate":"pp. 1–2","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Founders Oak Island, the Haverford Avenue median in Pacific Palisades (approximate); the place of the gathering, not a historic tribal provenance.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A year after wildfire drove them from their homes, the people of Pacific Palisades gathered on 11 January 2026 in the circular clearing among the oaks of Founders Oak Island, where their town had been founded in January 1922, to rededicate the birthplace of a community \"now in the process of being reborn anew.\" The president of the historical society saluted the founders of three eras, beginning with the Indigenous peoples who first settled the land thousands of years ago. Then Alan Salazar, a storyteller in the tradition of the Tongva, Chumash and Tataviam, swung a bullroarer high above his head, invited everyone into an ancient offering of sage and tobacco, and called on the symbolism of spring: \"to bring back to life — that's what we're here for today.\"","pull_quote":"Salazar swung a bullroarer high above his head, invited all to participate in an ancient offering of sage and tobacco plants, and invoked the symbolism of spring.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Patrick Healy, Pacific Palisades Historical Society Newsletter, Winter 2026, p. 2","term_gloss":"","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Patrick Healy, \"Founders Oak Island Is Rededicated,\" Pacific Palisades Historical Society Newsletter, Winter 2026, pp. 1–2","url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d79bf7da6a2504ccd3dd75c/t/699f7c106835093e5b4e0672/1772059664120/PPHS%2BNewsletter%2BFeb.%2B2026%2BV6.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Patrick Healy, \"Founders Oak Island Is Rededicated,\" Pacific Palisades Historical Society Newsletter, Winter 2026, pp. 1–2","source_display":"Patrick Healy, \"Founders Oak Island Is Rededicated,\" Pacific Palisades Historical Society Newsletter, Winter 2026, pp. 1–2","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer swung high overhead; form and material unrecorded.","function_display":"Swung to open the rededication of Founders Oak Island after the 2025 wildfire, with an offering of sage and tobacco, \"to bring back to life\".","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"alan salazar","display_name":"Founders Oak, brought back to life","image":{"full":"assets/objects/hunt_round4_2026_10_30/susunkewa_five.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/hunt_round4_2026_10_30/thumbs/susunkewa_five.jpg","alt":"Five small round-ended blades painted with zigzags, a snake and dots, each hanging from a white cotton cord.","credit":"Sheryl Susunkewa (Hopi); via MutualArt","source_page":"https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Group-of-Five-Painted-Cottonwood-Bull-Ro/BFF1BF4B141A040B8D157693F872E347","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Five painted cottonwood bullroarers by the Hopi carver Sheryl Susunkewa","pool_id":"auto-hunt_round4_2026_10_30--susunkewa_five","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-11-13"},"slug":"healy2026-001-alan-salazar-storyteller-in-the-tradition-of-the-tongva-chumash-and-tataviam"}