99 Children’s Books

Alvitre, Cindi, and Carly Lake. Waa’aka’: The Bird Who Fell in Love with the Sun, 2020. Find at your local library.

Alvitre, Weshoyot. “Tongva Tribe: Denounces New Comic She Kills for Violence and Misrepresentation of Their Women.” News from Native California 33, no. 4 (Summer 2020): 10–11. Find at your local library. Access through LMU.

Boulé, Mary Null, and Daniel Liddell. Gabrielino Tribe. California Native American Tribes. Vashon, WA: Merryant Pub., 1992. Find at your local library. Access through the Internet Archive.

Dagit, Rosi, and Gretta Allison. Grandmother Oak. Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1996. Find at your local library.

Eagle Rock – Highland Park 4-H Club, and Autry Museum of the American West, eds. Mixed Nuts: Tongva Use of the Southern California Mixed Oak / Black Walnut Woodland: A Curriculum Guide to the California American Indian Uses of Urban Los Angeles County Woodlands and Environs. Los Angeles, CA: Southwest Museum, 1997. Access through the Autry. Find at your local library.

Graham, Mary. The Tongva, 2018. Find at your local library.

Hodge, Zahrah Preble, Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian, and Huntington Free Library. Tomar of Siba: The Story of a Gabrielino Indian Boy of Southern California. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1933. Find at your local library.

Jones, Dan C. Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories, 2021. Find at your local library. Access on OverDrive.

Lightning, Crystle. “Los Angeles: Traditional Territory – Chumash Tribe, Tongva Nation, Tataviam Band.” In Urban Tribes: Native Americans in the City, by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale, and Joseph Boyden. Toronto: Annick Press Ltd., 2015. Find at your local library.

Lowry, Chag, and Weshoyot Alvitre. My Sisters. California: Original Voices, 2020. Find at your local library.

Margolin, Malcolm, and Yolanda Montijo, eds. Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1995. Access through Autry Center. Find at your local library.

Marx, Pamela, and Debra Vodhanel. A Story of Seven Sisters: A Tongva Pleides Legend. Banning, CA: Malki-Ballena Press, 2010. Find at your local library.

Stevens, Madeline. Discovering Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. First. California Missions (Cavendish Square Publishing LLC). New York: Cavendish Square, 2015. Find at your local library.

Williams, Jack S. The Tongva of California. The Library of Native Americans. New York: PowerKids Press, 2003. Find at your local library.