To-VAA-ngar. Literally, it means “the world,” this hill and everything around it, as seen through the eyes of the Tongva, the first residents of the land. This world was theirs before it ...

The original people of Los Angeles, the Tongva, defined their world as Tovaangar. It extended from Palos Verdes to San Bernardino, from Saddleback Mountain to the San Fernando Valley. Tovaangar ...

What is their story?” Kuruvungna Springs flows on a small nature preserve near Santa Monica. It’s a sacred spot to the Tongva, one of LA’s indigenous tribes. The name – Kuruvungna – means “a place ...

California was home to thousands of people before Spanish settlers arrived—around 350,000 across the whole state—and the Los Angeles Basin in particular was home to the Gabrieliño-Tongva people.

While land acknowledgments hold different levels of significance to different Indigenous peoples and tribes, for the Gabrieleno Tongva people, the original inhabitants of the land we now call Los ...

As Los Angeles fourth graders know (because their curriculum includes the study of California Indians), the original language of Los Angeles is Tongva. This American Indian language (also called ...

As Los Angeles fourth-graders know (because their curriculum includes the study of California Indians), the original language of Los Angeles is Tongva. This American Indian language (also called ...

The land USC occupies belongs to the Tongva people, the Indigenous community of the Los Angeles Basin. For over 9,000 years, they ruled Tovaangar, which covered almost 4,000 square miles. Independent ...