Primary Sources (Last updated 7/13/2024)

• To Be Visible, Tongva Timeline and other culturally relevant material, Julia Bogany (Cultural Advisor of The Tongva) with Claremont Colleges

• Tataviam Featured Videos

• Weshoyot Alvitre Comics

• Places to visit with Fernandeño Tataviam information to destinations and things to do in the northern Los Angeles county

• Cultivating Reciprocity: The Robert Redford Conservancy, The Tongva Nation, and Pitzer College

• Tongva Women Inspiring the Future by Julia Bogany

• The Aqueduct Between Us Dir. By AnMarie Menoza

• Moomat Ahiko, Dir. Carly Lake, 2017

• Neemkomok: An AFI Thesis Film, Dir. Douglas Cushnie, 2017

• Cindi Alvitre Interview, Native Voices, U.S. National Library of Medicine

• “Between Homelands: How a Canoe Connects a Tongva Woman to Her Tribe” podcast, The California Report

• Finding Tovaanger Series , Use Tongva Language and lesson plans using the interactive material found and linked through various sites.

• Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation- Los Angeles: Tongva History Walk Sources: These two links provide material outlining how to address the past and move toward transformation in the present.

• Mission Project: Activism on a Smaller Scale, World Literature Today, October 21, 2019 by Wallace Cleaves

• “Make No Bones About It.” Weshoyot Alvitre on Make No Bones About It. Jan 20, 2020.

• Tending the Wild, KCET.

• Native Narratives: History of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

• Teacher Training: Fernandeño Tataviam: The Knowledge Keepers of the Land

• People Facing the Sun: The History of the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

• Charles Sepulveda, Our Sacred Waters: Theorizing Kuuyum as a Decolonial Possibility

Weshoyat Alvitre, Alice Sixkiller

Secondary Sources

(Last updated 6/30/2024)

• Alvitre, C. M. (2015). Coyote tours: Unveiling Native LA. In P. Wakida (Ed.), LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s atlas (pp. 42–52). Berkeley, CA: Heyday.

• The Birth of Los Angeles 1767-1824 – And the Genocide of the Tongva, by Peter Boyd

• Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801

  By Edward D. Castillo (1999). Published by: American Indian Culture and Research Journal 23. 3 (Summer): 47-61.

• Overcoming Hindrances to our Enduring Responsibility to the Ancestors: Protecting Traditional Cultural Places

  By Desiree Renee Martinez (Special Issue: Decolonizing Archaeology.) The American Indian Quarterly 30 (3): 486–503.