Native Narratives: Tongva Traditions 

My Family Is From Long Beach And My Dad is Tongva and Cocopah in the 1940 and 50 's he use to hunt and Fish In The Los Angeles River Before it was Concrete I Am So Proud Of My Ancestors We Are Survivors All Native people Are Servivers

It would be so wonderful to get Tongva people on the Elysian Valley Riverside Neighborhood Council!

What a great video that I can show my 4th grade students to help them understand Tongva wisdom.

I found this video searching the term Tongva on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Happy to have learned something about Los Angeles natives.

Beautiful video. Thank you

'california' hosted the largest population in a non agriculture setting ever,and they did so very peacefully. This is no small feat, and the amount of wisdom, compassion, and technique of these peoples is not to be underestimated

On my Tongan aka Polynesian side, we follow the same customs and believe in the same things. I bet we are descendants from the Tongva people. We are the ancestors that canoed out to the isles and never returned.

Beautiful ppl special ppl

Thank you. That was about the most beautiful thing this grandfather has seen since the births of his grandchildren. I am born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley and have hiked many of it's rivers and streams. There are places you can sit in the valleys by the water deep in the mountains and hear the mountains whispering. Many times I've been on the verge of understanding what was being said and hoped to one day understand.

I wish there were more classes for the language i would love to learn it!

It's a tragedy what we've turned the beautiful Rio Hondo into. Hopefully us Angelinos can learn to live at peace with nature once again.

300 miles rowing on the river hundreds of years ago. Beautiful mental image.

Happiness is watching this ❤

. thank you for giving us these lessons i now alot more about life here for the last twenty years now i am finding my connection with the spirit of this place may our creator be merciful .

Wonderful video.

I played on the Rio Hondo as a child.

This was so heart warming The history… the precious little girl… the woman Thank you for sharing this May there be prosperity brought to these blessed people

Such cool history if you look for it . The POMO in the north of California some of the same history with the creeks being highways and in the middle of the city parks that are next to creeks you can find artifacts and just imagine when we used to live next to the creeks under there trees . And in many of are water ways hold great stories and history . Local knowledge is gold in glad it's on RU-vid to save forever

Beautiful to see!! The River is so important, the lifeline.. Thank you for this!

That was so loving & educational❤ Thankyou

Very well said my friend

Beautiful ❤

Plants are life

I love this ❤

There was swamp.lands all over the southland wilmington.was suangna tules filled the lakes and springs San Pedro had at. Least 9.villages cabrillo called it the bay of Smokes

Wow! This was soul beautiful. Thank you for this knowledge , it resonates deeply with my soul. Ayawinkakai 🦅🌀💦👁

❤ Jerry has smile now cry later on his knees. Someone controlled my phone. Be safe.

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I love this, but also I find it ironic how they’re discussing respecting the Plant People, and the spirits of the growing things, yet I can see several non-native, invasive plant species taking over that waterway! And of course they were brought over by Europeans at some point, either out of curiosity or "science", and now we have invasives… that are now competing with, and possibly eradicating, the native plants… also, toxic plants exist everywhere yes, but some of the invasives are highly toxic. Even deadly. I trust that Mrs. Johnson knows what she’s doing. 🙏🏼 I just hope, at 01:11, nobody messes with that castor bean tree behind them, with the big leaves, or _Ricinus communis_ as it’s known taxonomically-the name "Ricinus", as it is the base for the lethal chemical Ricin. The plant itself is pretty, and there is even a dark red form, But it’s a foreigner in America. We see it on the sides of freeways and roads everywhere in SoCal. The seedpods do actually look kinda cool, like an alien, spiky egg thing… and that’s the most dangerous part. In the seeds… or the castor beans, themselves. Hopefully kids, people, and even our beloved animals are taught not to touch them, and please, don’t ingest them…

This is my my mom's people

Their people are in the South Pacific 🇹🇴

Wow, never knew anything about the Tongva tribe.. are they Aztecs.. read they are like distant cousins? This is beautiful history to know about cypress park

I live in the San Gabriel Valley and to know what happened to them and how they were enslaved, murdered and raped, not only physically,but culturally and religiously is so sad. The very ground I walk on was their land.

A branch of the polynesians

Aho

Mint plant for the teeth all real indigenous native automatically know that 😮

IAM from Hollywood Los Angeles van nuys Sherman oaks

Weren’t they Aztec descendants? Uto- Aztecan language

I wish we could reconnect with Mother Nature rather than close it off with concrete jungles.

I don't believe the native Americans where walking around all day and giving respect to single plants. Thats seams more like a romantic picture of the noble wild as invented by Cooper.

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