Gabrielino traditional narratives
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Gabrieliño traditional narratives or Tongva traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Tongva/Gabrieliño nation of people of the Los Angeles basin and vicinity in southern California.
Tongva/Gabrieliño/Fernandeño oral literature is relatively little known, because of the early (1770s) reduction
of the people into the California Spanish mission
culture at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
(Gabrieliño) and Mission San Fernando Rey de España
(Fernandeño). The available evidence suggests strong cultural links with the group's linguistic kin and neighbors to the south and east, the Luiseño and the Cahuilla
. More information is discussed in the Traditional narratives (Native California)
article.
Tongva settlements
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Tongva/Gabrieliño/Fernandeño oral literature is relatively little known, because of the early (1770s) reduction
Reduction
Reduction, reduced, or reduce may refer to:- Chemistry :* Reduction, part of a reduction-oxidation reaction where oxygen is being removed from a compound.** Reduced gas, a gas with a low oxidation number...
of the people into the California Spanish mission
Spanish missions in California
The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans. The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to...
culture at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. The settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become 21 Spanish...
(Gabrieliño) and Mission San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" , 1797. The settlement is located on the former Encino Rancho in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, near the site of the first gold discovery in Alta California.-History:Mission San Fernando Rey de...
(Fernandeño). The available evidence suggests strong cultural links with the group's linguistic kin and neighbors to the south and east, the Luiseño and the Cahuilla
Cahuilla
The Cahuilla, Iviatim in their own language, are Indians with a common culture whose ancestors inhabited inland areas of southern California 2,000 years ago. Their original territory included an area of about . The traditional Cahuilla territory was near the geographic center of Southern California...
. More information is discussed in the Traditional narratives (Native California)
Traditional narratives (Native California)
The Traditional Narratives of Native California are the legends, tales, and oral histories that survive as fragments of what was undoubtedly once a vast unwritten literature.-History of Studies:...
article.
On-Line Examples of Tongva/Gabrieliño Narratives
- The Indians of Los Angeles County by Hugo Reid (1852)
Sources for Tongva/Gabrieliño Narratives
- Kroeber, A. L. (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C. (Fragments of myths, with comparisons, pp. 623-626.)
- McCawley, William (1996). The First Angelinos: The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles. Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. (Includes previously unpublished narratives collected in 1914-1933 by John Peabody HarringtonJohn Peabody HarringtonJohn Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the native peoples of California. Harrington is noted for the massive volume of his documentary output, most of which has remained unpublished: the shelf space in the Library of Congress dedicated to his work...
, pp. 174-178.) - Reid, Hugo (1968). The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852. Edited and annotated by Robert F. Heizer. Southwest Museum Papers No. 21. Los Angeles. (Includes the Orpheus legend.)
See also
- Traditional narratives (Native California)Traditional narratives (Native California)The Traditional Narratives of Native California are the legends, tales, and oral histories that survive as fragments of what was undoubtedly once a vast unwritten literature.-History of Studies:...
- Tongva languageTongva language-Collected by C. Hart Merriam :Numbers# Po-koo /bo'kʰøː/# Wěh-hā /ʋɛj'χɒː/# Pah-hā /pa'χɒː/# Wah-chah /ʋa'ʃɒχ/# Mah-har /ma'χɒʁ/# Pah-vah-hā /pa'va'χɒː/# Wah-chah-kav-e-ah /ʋa'ʃa'kʰav̥eʲa/...
Tongva settlements
- ToypurinaToypurinaToypurina was a Tongva/Gabrieliño Native American medicine woman who opposed the rule of colonization by Spanish missionaries in California, and led an unsuccessful rebellion against them....
- ChinigchinixChinigchinixChingichngish is the name of an important figure in the mythology of the Payomkowishum , Tongva , and Acjachemem Native Americans of coastal Southern California.-Character:This character was first mentioned in a description of the beliefs of the native...
- TongvaTongvaThe Tongva , also referred to as the San Gabriel Band, are a historic Native American people who have inhabited an area in present-day Los Angeles and Orange counties, California, for many centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Tongva means "people of the earth" in the Tongva language, an...
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