Moompetam American Indian Festival
Aquarium of the Pacific 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA, United StatesThe Aquarium of the Pacific invites you to its twenty-first annual Moompetam American Indian Festival. Moompetam (pronounced \’mohm peh tahm), meaning “People of the Ocean,” is derived from the word for ‘saltwater’ in the Tongva language. For the California Indigenous coastal peoples, the ocean has always been a sacred entity. The festival celebrates Indigenous California…