Alternative Spring Break
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Image 1: As part of UCI's Alternative Break program, 14 students recently spent a week at the La Jolla Indian Reservation, helping Luiseno tribe members restore their fire-ravaged land. Here, reservation youngsters Dominic and Kathlyn Nelson rush to assist UCI volunteers working on a community garden.
Image 2: A UCI student plants native California buckwheat in the reservation's new community garden - part of the Luiseno tribe's ongoing effort to restore land damaged in an October 2007 fire.
Image 3: Alternative Break volunteer Lauren Wong (right), a second-year public health major at UCI, helps Luiseno tribe member Grace Galvin plant a garden on the reservation.
Image 4: Alternative Break students and tribe members create a community garden on the rural reservation, which is at the base of Palomar Mountain in Pauma Valley.
Image 5: Winding through the reservation's public campground, the San Luis Rey River provides a refreshing break for volunteers.
Image 6: UCI students enjoy a farewell dinner of Indian tacos in the tribal hall, accompanied by singing and storytelling.
Image 7: Alternative Break volunteers make shawls for an upcoming Walk for Women's Safety, organized by the tribe's anti-violence program and the Native Women's Advisory Committee. On the wall is a poster of Lakota domestic violence activist Tillie Black Bear.
Image 8: UCI students bundle sage for the tribe's April 30 Earth Day celebration. The Luisenos use sage for blessing and purifying rooms, the body and the spirit.
Image 9: Tribe member Dominic Nelson helps break up the soil in preparation for planting a community garden.
Image 10: UCI student Lauren Wong helps her Luiseno "planting buddy" extract seedlings from their tubes.
Image 11: A local dog joins Nancy Huynh, a third-year urban studies major at UCI, in the garden.
Image 12: Little Luiseno Ricky Galvin lends a hand to UCI students planting a garden.
Image 13: UCI senior international studies major Saori Shinozaki also works on the community garden.
Image 14: Luiseno tribe members Dominic Nelson (left) and Dalton Alverado pitch in. As they grow up on the land, they'll reap the benefits of their labor.
Image 15: Dani Hernandez (center), a fourth-year mechanical engineering major, joins other UCI students and children from the tribe's after-school program in showing their dirty hands and big smiles.
Image 16: Anna Capinpin, a fourth-year public health major at UCI, embraces a tribe member after he presented her with a certificate of appreciation. Another Alternative Break participant said: "We really formed a bond with the community members - and with each other."
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