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Tongva - (noun) the name of a Native American tribe indigenous to present-day Los Angeles, California
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- A member of a group of Native Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, thought to be descended from Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples from Nevada.
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The area was originally occupied by the Tongva people.
It does not move the Tongva toward decolonization or strengthen our ability to be sovereign.
Those were words in the Tongva language.
And the Tongva watched the friars.
They had a similar lifestyle to the Tongva people.
The area was originally occupied by the Tongva people who lived in a rancheria named Tibahangna.
They traded for ocean fish with the coastal Tongva.
The first explorers to make contact with the Tongva described them as a peaceful people.
Reid was an educated Scotsman known for a series of letters describing Tongva culture.
Tongva is closely related to Serrano.
They traded for ocean fish with the coastal Tongva on a daily basis.
The Tongva were a peaceful people.
Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people.
The Tongva have another sacred area known as Puvungna.
Sunland and Tujunga were originally home to the Tongva people.
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Quaoar is the Tongva creator deity and Weywot is his son.
The history of Walnut dates back to the indigenous Tongva people.
The Tongva called the island Pimu or Pimugna and referred to themselves as the Pimugnans.
The springs remain sacred to the Tongva People.
Yet, Tongva desperately need more than a symbolic name change.
Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language.
The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their reverence of dance and courage.
The area encompassing Fountain Valley was originally inhabited by the Tongva people.
Today, several bands of Tongva people live in the Los Angeles area.
They were also called ti'aat by the Tongva.
Members of the Tongva and Juaneño / Luiseño nations long inhabited this area.
The canyon 's northern divide once formed a formidable boundary between the indigenous Acjachemen and Tongva.
Some native names include pashí from Tongva and it'epeš from Ventureño.
Historically, the indigenous people of the Laguna Beach area were the Tongva.
Members of the Tongva and Juaneño / Luiseñoethnic group long inhabited this area.
Most people call this Los Angeles, but its Tongva name is Tovaangar.
History Members of the Tongva and Juaneño / Luiseño ethnic group long inhabited this area.
The Los Angeles coastal area was settled by the Tongva ( Gabrieleños ) and Chumash tribes.
The Chumash and Tongva used them to paddle to the Channel Islands through long-established routes.
The last fluent native speakers of Tongva lived in the early 20th century.
By the 16th-century arrival of Spanish explorers, the dominant group was the Tongva people.
Stoney Point is the site of the Tongva settlement named Asha'awanga or Momonga.
Seeing your dad, the Tongva.
A hunter-gatherer society, the Tongva traded widely with neighboring peoples.
Currently there are 1,700 people self-identifying as members of the Tongva or Gabrieliño tribe.
By 500 AD the Tongva had come to occupy all the lands now associated with them.
We are on Gabrielino / Tongva land.
History = = Members of the Tongva and Juaneño / Luiseño are indigenous to the area.
The Chumash were hunter-gatherers, fishermen, and also traders with the Mojave, Yokuts, and Tongva Indians.
So we can learn all the Tongva names. We're fixing our map.
The analogous Tongva term, tii'at, is unrelated.
