Tongva Medicinal Plants

This is a web-based catalog of medicinal plants used by the Tongva people. The Tongva are the native people of what is now the Los Angeles Basin in California. They are a small and vibrant society striving for national recognition and committed to sharing their traditional knowledge of medicinal plants.	Tongva House, Santa Fe Springs, California The Study Team Mark Acuña, Tongva Consultant Barbara Drake, Tongva Consultant Mario Incayawar, M.D., M.Sc., Principal Investigator* Lise Bouchard, Ph.D., Co-investigator Zach Hurwitz , Research Assistant Cristina Leal, Research Assistant
Funded by the Strategic Initiative Fund Pitzer College * Supported by a Faculty Fellowship grant from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation The Brain, Mind, and Medicine: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Program at Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, and Harvey Mudd Colleges Funded by The Henry R. Luce Foundation		New book