Beautiful video. Thank you

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.

'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

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.

. 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 .

Beautiful ppl special ppl

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

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.

@nachobidness_luv

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Tongan too n I agree wit u... I see Tongan names on da map that trips me out!

@etonitonga6300

2 жыл бұрын

@@nachobidness_luv My mother is Chumash, Spanish, Mexican and French and her family founded what is known as San Luis Obispo county. Her Chumash blood has the same customs as the Tongans too. Very similar wording and dialects. I guess you c an say me and my siblings have connected the dots between the islands and the California coast!

@romywhite290

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I would be so interested to see research on this. Mitochondrial DNA, language analysis. Some really cool history lies in this.

@urielmartinez6279

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There have been many genetic studies done on this and this theory has been thoroughly disproven .

@etonitonga6300

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@@urielmartinez6279 talk to Cal Poly Slo and UCSB professors. They’re the ones studying my native Chumash side and my Tongan side. We are the firsts!

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

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

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.

@MelindaAugustina

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see LA River restored eventually. For the concrete to be removed. That's a long-term wish.

Wonderful video.

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

That was so loving & educational❤ Thankyou

Happiness is watching this ❤

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 KZread to save forever

I played on the Rio Hondo as a child.

Very well said my friend

Beautiful ❤

I love this ❤

Plants are life

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 🦅🌀💦👁

@marcoserrano7449

3 жыл бұрын

no

@skyeagle7367

3 жыл бұрын

No to what?

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

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good

This is my my mom's people

Their people are in the South Pacific 🇹🇴

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

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

@Garycruz85

2 жыл бұрын

All the Indians started with Eskimos Indians of Alaska and ventured downward as far as Brazil. The Aztecs , Mayans , Incas, Olmecs, Zapotecs which were known as the cloud people. In some way all of them are tied together.

@davidortega357

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The tongva and Aztec there language was similar part of utoaztecan language family same as Paiute, shoshean, Luiseno, Yaqui , mayo raramuris , huichol, nahuas Comanche, Ute,

@of1089

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​@@Garycruz85 i also believe there were people who visited from across the ocean on both sides of the world. The tongva held catalina island as a sacred place with spiritual masters who they described as having white hair and light colored eyes.

A branch of the polynesians

Aho

IAM from Hollywood Los Angeles van nuys Sherman oaks

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.

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.

@magdalenamiamor6678

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you haven’t done your research

@magdalenamiamor6678

2 жыл бұрын

I would also urge you to reflect on why you feel comfortable speaking over an indigenous woman sharing her history.

@foxstar5521

2 жыл бұрын

Op hasn't done their research. There no such thing as a tongva. That was invented by modern day colonizers in the 1903 and then revived again by a con artist in the 1980s.

@foxstar5521

2 жыл бұрын

The true indigenous people of LA have and always will be the Kizh.

@of1089

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Probably would have been more of a quick respectful gesture instead of an elaborate ritual, sort of like a handshake.

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