Gabrieleno Tongva are an indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands.

Along with the neighboring Chumash, the Tongva were the most influential people at the time of European arrival.

They developed an extensive trade network through te’aats (plank-built boats) and a vibrant food and material culture based on an Indigenous worldview that positioned humans, not as the apex of creation, but as one strand in a web of life (as made evident in their creation stories).

pathways:

GABRIELENO (TONGVA) BAND OF MISSION INDIANS