The view has abandoned Brentwood's Santa Catalina View, but 400 years ago explorer Sebastian Vizcaíno cast anchor off the island and named it for a third-century saint, Saint Catherine: Santa Catalina. Long before Vizcaíno's time - or even Saint Catherine's time - the island was already home to the Pimuvit people, a branch of the Tongva Indians who have called much of Southern California home for millennia. The Pimuvit fished, carved stone, played flutes, and built canoes, watched over by the sacred porpoises leaping about offshore, until the natives were herded off their island in 1833, and shipped off to the missions A century later, the ethnomusicologist Helen Heffron Roberts tracked down a lone descendant of these exiled Pimuvit people, Celestino Awatu, and transcribed a few of his songs. When Saint Catherine - Santa Catalina - was martyred, legend tells us that angels carried her body away to Mount Sinai. Celestino sang a Spirit Song with the lyrics, “Dwell there my spirit, stay there my spirit.” This song, he explained, expressed the Pimuvit belief that, when we die, our “spirit goes back to Catalina to stay there.”