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Once A Valley Dreams

2026Feature Film

Weaving a tapestry of a place and a people, Once A Valley Dream traces a history of the first CA Indian Reservations, land dispossession, and a centuries-long struggle for land and recognition for the Kitanemuk people of the Tejon Tribe. Diving into both the memories and struggles of Tejon Indian Tribal members working to reclaim tribal community and share their history, the film sets out to tell a collective story of coming home–a 21st century creation story from Native California.

Synopsis

This film is an exploration of a collective story–of loss and dispossession–and a contemporary portrait of return. Through the Treaty of Tejon in 1851, the Tejon Indian Tribe was promised the first and largest reservation allotment in California. Through government corruption, bureaucracy, and outright lies, the Treaty of Tejon came to be one of California’s 18 Unratified Treaties. Instead of remaining the homelands of the Tejon Tribe, the Tejon reservation would instead become the largest contiguous private landholding in California—The Tejon Ranch—while the tribe lost their land and was legally dissolved in the eyes of the Federal government.

Once A Valley Dream bears witness to the complex struggles of reclaiming Native California Indian cultural heritage, spirituality, and Tribal Sovereignty. Through an exploration of both fragmented memory and partial histories alike, the film sets out to explore the ways in which the past is ever present in our lives today.

Credit

Director: Colin Rosemont Producers: Sandra Hernandez Tsanavi Spoonhunter Loi Ameera Almeron Bennett Elliott Editor: Kyle Baker Cinematographer: Josh Roth