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What do the Tongva people eat?
They ate the flowers and the sweet, yellow-‐tan fruit. They also dried some of the fruit in the sun, ground them into flour, and made cakes. They even ate the grasshoppers that lived in the groves. Mesquite trees also provided firewood, wood for bows and arrows, and fibers to make string.
How did the Tongva use the natural resources around them?
Ingenious in their use of natural resources, the Tongva developed an effective food system utilizing the Island’s flora and fauna. Men were responsible for hunting and fishing, while the women gathered seeds, nuts, roots, berries, acorns, mushrooms and other items.
Where are the Tongva today?
Today the Tongva play an active role in the Southern California community, with over 2,500 Tongva people living in the region.
What fruit is native to California?
No commercial fruits were native – except for prickly Pear (tuna) and Pacific blackberry. (Although the native Pacific Blackberry has largely been replaced by the invasive Himalayan Blackberry.) There are non commercial wild cherries (prunus illicifolia) and wild grapes (vitus californica) native to California.
What are the Tongva known for?
The Tongva. The Tongva (or Gabrielinos) were the people who canoed out to greet Spanish explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo upon his arrival off the shores of Santa Catalina and San Pedro in 1542. Cabrillo declined their invitation to come ashore and visit.
What kind of food did the Gabrielino Indians eat?
Some of the food like acorns had to be ground into powder and washed several times in water. The women also had to grind food such as abalone to make them soft enough to eat. The natives also cooked most of their food outside or over an open flame.
Where do the people of the Gabrielino tribe live?
Some Gabrielino descendants prefer the name Tongva, which probably came from an indigenous village name. Where do the Gabrielinos live? The Gabrielinos are a Southern California tribe, located on the West Coast around what is now Los Angeles. Most Gabrielino people still live in this area today.
What do the Gabrielino Indians say to kids?
However, the Gabrielino-Tongva tribe is working to teach their ancestral language to the children again. If you’d like to know an easy Gabrielino words, miyiiha (pronounced similar to “mee-yee-hah”) is a friendly greeting.
What kind of weapons did the Gabrielino Indians use?
Gabrielino hunters used bows and arrows to shoot deer and curved throwing sticks called makana to hunt rabbits and birds. Sometimes they would also build wooden traps. Fishermen used nets and harpoons.