Gabrielino traditional narratives

Gabrielino traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Gabrielino (Tongva)people of the Los Angeles basin and vicinity in southern California.

Gabrielino oral literature is relatively little known, because of the early absorption of that group into the Spanish mission culture. The available evidence suggests strong cultural links with the group's linguistic kin and neighbors to the south and east, the Luiseño and the Cahuilla. (See also Traditional narratives (Native California).)

On-Line Examples of Gabrielino Narratives

• The Indians of Los Angeles County by Hugo Reid (1852)

Sources for Gabrielino Narratives

• Kroeber, A. L. (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C. (Fragments of myths, with comparisons, pp. 623-626.)

• McCawley, William (1996). The First Angelinos: The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles. Malki Museum Press, Banning, California. (Includes previously unpublished narratives collected in 1914-1933 by John Peabody Harrington, pp. 174-178.)

• Reid, Hugo (1968). The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852. Edited and annotated by Robert F. Heizer. Southwest Museum Papers No. 21. Los Angeles. (Includes the Orpheus legend.)

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