Below is are two KnightLab interactive maps created to highlight a small portion of Native artistic and cultural sites in the Los Angeles basin and accompany a walking tour of significant Tongva historical sites in downtown Los Angeles.

The Gabrielino/Tongva were a seafaring, agriculturalist, and skilled tribe rich in customs and traditions. Learn more about our culture and preservation.

Sep 3, 2022 · Catalina Museum for Art & History presents Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying Pimugna, an exhibition featuring a collection of works created by three contemporary Tongva artists: Weshoyot Alvitre, Mercedes Dorame, and River Garza.

Pictographs of the Tongva or Gabrielino people are very rare today. Many rock art sites have been destroyed by the development of Greater Los Angeles. There are paintings at a few sites in the San Gabriel Mountains and in the northwestern part of the San Fernando Valley.

Jul 6, 2022 · How artist Mercedes Dorame shares pieces of her Tongva heritage across L.A.’s public landscapes

Oct 8, 2017 · Her likeness can now be found in public art around East and South L.A.; her face covers a wall of Ramona Gardens, and a painted interpretation of her face is part of Pacific Standard Time’s...

Sep 12, 2023 · “The Iridescence of Knowing” opens this week at Occidental College, highlighting creations — such as historical craftwork and performance art — made on Tongva land. Mercedes Dorame and Joel “Rage.One” Garcia are the curators, bringing …

This public art project was created to recognize and illuminate the little-known history of the region’s first inhabitants: Native Americans who call themselves the Tongva (also know as Gabrielino Indians) – a peace-loving people who settled here more than 7,000 years before the arrival of the first Europeans, and continue to this day to be ...

The Tongva were a friendly tribe, paddling out to greet the first Spanish ships with gifts of nuts, berries, acorns, and seafood. Conflict between villages over failure in gift-giving at ceremonies, abduction of women, poaching and trespassing, or hurtful sorcery sometimes resulted in war.

Sep 9, 2022 · Catalina Museum for Art & History will present the exhibition Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying Pimugna, featuring a collection of works created by three contemporary Tongva artists, Weshoyot Alvitre, Mercedes Dorame, and River Garza.