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In 1990, the Gabrielino/Tongva of San Gabriel filed for federal recognition. Other Gabrieleño groups have done the same. The Gabrielino/Tongva of California Tribal Council and the Coastal Gabrielino-Diegueno Band of Mission Indians filed federal petitions in 1997. These applications for federal recognition remain pending.
As stated by Kizh Nation (Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians) tribal spokesperson Ernest Perez Teutimez Salas, Tongva gained notoriety in 1992 when the tribe was approached by non-Native people who expressed that in order to save a sacred spring in Santa Monica from a major development project and receive federal recognition that the tribe ...
A bill submitted by U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) would allow the Garielino/Tongva Nation to bypass a costly federal petition process.
The tribe, however, has broken into several factions, some of whom are seeking federal recognition as separate tribes. The three largest and most prominent factions are: Gabrieliño-Tongva Tribe, West Hills, CA, formerly the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians, led by Charles Alvarez [ 61 ]
For people with documented Tongva ancestry, see Category:Tongva people. No Tongva group has federal recognition, but California officially recognized the Gabrielino/Tongva in 1994 as "the aboriginal tribe of the Los Angeles Basin.” [1]
On this day, they were walking on what would one day be their land, 12 acres that had been purchased by the region’s only Indigenous charter school and returned to the Gabrielino Shoshone Tribal ...
Tongva (Gabrielino-Fernandeño) † Last native speakers died in early 1900s, in 21st century undergoing revival efforts, Southern California Munro & Gabrielino/Tongva Language Committee (2008) Hopi: Hopi: 6,800 speakers in northeastern Arizona Hopi Dictionary Project (1998), Jeanne (1978) Tübatulabal: Tübatulabal †
In the early 1990s non-natives led by people in academia established the Tongva-Gabrieleno and the Tongva/Gabrieleno organizations (hoping to achieve federal recognition and a casino) began to promote the term "Tongva" while demoting the Kizh (Wikipedia, etc.), as the ivory tower of academia tends to do.