109 Theses

Ambo, Theresa J. “California Tribal Nations and the University: Examining Institutional Relationships, Responsibility and Reciprocity.” UCLA, 2017. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mc157r6.

Bellenger, Dianne. “Analysis and Interpretation of The Van Norman Archaeological Complex Orphan Collection.” California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/171757. Find at your local library.

Berver, Meghan Elizabeth. “On the Shoulders of Seven Giants: Victoria Reid and the World of the Gabrielino.” State University of New York College at Oneonta, 2009. Find at your local library.

Black, Megan. “Bead Types: Classification of Nursery Site (CA-SCLI-1215) Beads and Ornaments in Light of Central California Typology.” M.A., California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/203429. Find at your local library.

Boggs, Brian. “Feature 1 at CA-LAN-211/H (Playa Vista) in Coastal Southern California: Tongva Ceremonial Feasting Debris or Habitation Midden?” M.A., California State University, Fullerton, 2010. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Burkheimer, Mary Elizabeth. “Ethnographic Bibliography on the Gabrielino Indians of Southern California.” University of California, Los Angeles, 1978. Find at your local library.

Cameron, Una B. “The History of San Gabriel Valley.” M.A., University of Southern California, 1938. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Carr, Amanda M. “Indian Hill: An Ethnohistory.” Dissertation/Thesis, Scripps College, 2000. Find at your local library.

Chavez, Yve. “Indigenous Artists, Ingenuity, and Resistance at the California Missions After 1769.” Ph.D. Art History, UCLA, 2017. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/355609rf.

Farrell-Thomas, Paddy. “INA 6950-Tongva Museum and Cultural Center.” Masters, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Environmental Design, Architecture, 2021. https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/wh246z27x.

Ferguson, Minnie. “Kuruvangna, the People’s Hidden Roots: An Analysis of the Historical Land Development of Indigenous Gabrielino Space and Natural Springs in West Los Angeles.” M.A. Urban Planning Project, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Find at your local library.

Ferry, Michelle Llyn. “The Thin Red Line: Native American Culture Bearers, Memory and the Museum.” Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Fiore, Christina M. “These Old Houses: Aboriginal Domestic Structures at Eel Point, San Clemente Island.” M.A., California State University, Northridge, 1998. Find at your local library.

George, Sanford H. “Immersive Visualization of Geographic Landscapes in Virtual Reality with Emphasis on Archaeological Sites with Spiritual Significance to the Tongva People.” Master of Arts in Geography, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography and the Environment, California State University, Fullerton, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12680/dr26z0012. Find at your local library.

Goldberg, Carol Frances. “The Application of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis to Human Dietary Reconstruction in Prehistoric Southern California.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Green, Terisa Marion. “Spanish Missions and Native Religion: Contact, Conflict, and Convergence.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Hale, Alice E. “The World in a Basket: Late Period Gabrieliño Ceremonial Features from the Lemon Tank Site, San Clemente Island, California.” M.A., California State University, Northridge, 1995. Find at your local library.

Hawley, Georganna M. “An Analysis of Non-Metric Cranial Traits of a Prehistoric Population from San Nicolas Island, California.” M. A, University of California, Santa Barbara., 2001. Find at your local library.

Hayden, William E. “A Landscape-Based Regional Analysis of Settlement Patterns in the San Joaquin Hills, Orange County, California.” California State University, Fullerton, 1996. Find at your local library.

Hidalgo, Monica Christina. “Freedom Fighter or Spanish Lady?: Toypurina and the Mission San Gabriel Uprising of 1785.” Thesis M.A., History, University of California, Irvine, 2005. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Irvine.

Huey, Danielle Marie. “Aboriginal Houses in the California Bight: The Investigation of Prehistoric House Structures at San Clemente Island, California.” San Diego State University, 1992. Find at your local library.

Hunt, Mark Alan. “Los Angeles’ 1981 Bicentennial Installation, ‘The City of Our Lady Queen of the Angels’ Inspires Digitally Filmed Ritual Choreography.” M.A., California State University, Los Angeles, 2016. Access through ProQuest.

Hurst-Loeffler, Christina Lynn. “Gabrielino Subsistence Patterns: An Archaeological Test of Predictive Theoretical Models.” California State University, Fullerton, 1993. Find at your local library.

Jacobsen, David M. “Asphaltum Sourcing among the Tongva of Santa Catalina Island.” M.A., California State University, Fullerton, 2012. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Jaurequi, Lena. “Reconfiguring Diversity in 19th Century Los Angeles: An Archaeological Analysis of the Los Angeles/Depot Hotel.” M.A., California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215058. Find at your local library.

Kealhofer, Lisa. “Cultural Interaction during the Spanish Colonial Period: The Plaza Church Site, Los Angeles.” Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Find at your local library.

Kerr, Susan Louise. “The People of the Southern Channel Islands: A Bioarchaeological Study of Adaptation and Population Change in Southern California.” Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

King, Linda Barbey. “Medea Creek Cemetery: Late Inland Chumash Patterns of Social Organization, Exchange and Warfare.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1982. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Koerper, Henry Carl. “Prehistoric Subsistence and Settlement in the Newport Bay Area and Environs, Orange County, California.” Ph. D., University of California, Riverside, 1981. Find at your local library. Access through LMU.

Lapin, Philippe J. “The Geochemical Analysis of Monterey Chert from Crystal Cove and Palos Verdes California: Investigations into Lithic Source Determination.” M.A., California State University, Fullerton, 1996. Find at your local library. Access through CSU Fullerton.

Legler, William Chester. “Descriptions, Analysis, and Origins of Crania from the Catalina Island Museum Society Collection.” M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1977. Find your local library. Access through LMU.

Lopez, Jocelyn. “Re-Indigenizing Spaces: How Mapping Racial Violence Shows the Interconnections Between Settler Colonialism and Gentrification.” Senior Honors Thesis for the Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hq3q40s. Access through LMU. Find at your local library.

Lorimer, Michelle. “Reconstructing the Past: Historical Interpretations and Native Experiences at Contemporary California Missions.” UC Riverside, 2013. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c37v6m4.

Martell, Carrie Ann. “Sa’angna: Tongva Perspectives on Development of the West Bluffs and Ballona Wetlands.” M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. Find at your local library.

McClintock, Thomas W. “Documentation and Technical Study of Torqua Cave.” UCLA, 2016. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22k3n9bc. Access through LMU. Find at your local library.

McKenzie, Roderick Clayton. “The San Pasqual Grant: The Sequent Occupance of a Portion of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel Lands through Two Centuries.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Geography Department, University of California, Los Angeles, 1972. Access through University of California, Los Angeles. Find at your local library.

Mendoza, AnMarie Ramona. “The Aqueduct Between Us- Inserting and Asserting an Indigenous California Indian Perspective about Los Angeles Water.” UCLA, 2019. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nn7v9z8. Access through LMU. Find at your local library.

Miller, Keith William. “Climatic Effects upon Gabrielino Economic Behavior and Cultural Evolution.” M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1992. Find at your local library.

Montano, Damien P. “Artistic Expression in the Crossroads of Los Angeles: Adornment, Beautification, and Guerilla Jewelry.” UCLA, 2017. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bv3h40m. Access through LMU. Find at your local library.

Olivera, Elena Vega. “If Only She Could Speak for Herself: Representations of a California Channel Islands Woman, 1840s-2000s.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011. Find at your local library. Access through Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

Page, Jason A. “Contested Urban Space: Competing Discourses of Urban Development and Environmental Conservation in Playa Vista, California.” M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 2009. Access through ProQuest. 

Pegelow, LeRoy. “The Gabrielino Indians of the Los Angeles Basin.” M.A., California State University, Fullerton, 1984. Find at your local library.

Pletka, Nicole. “Late Holocene Gabrielino Settlement Patterns in the Newport Coast Area of California: A Geographic Information Systems Based Approach.” M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 2005. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Potter, Amiee Bell. “The Genetic Affinities of the Prehistoric People of San Clemente Island, California: An Analysis of Ancient DNA.” Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2004. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Rabito, Cheryl. “Gabrielino Native Americans: A Third Grade Unit of Study.” Master’s Project M.A., California State Polytechnic University Pomona School of Education And Integrative Studies, 1992. Find at your local library. Access through California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

Radde, Hugh. “Understanding an Island Tongva Village: Results from Toyon Bay (SCAI-564), Santa Catalina Island, California.” California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/140298. Find at your local library.

Rareshide, Elisabeth. “Tongva Ritual Practice on San Clemente Island: Exploring the Origins of the Chinigchinich Religion.” California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/171528. Find at your local library.

Ringelstein, Austin. “Galleons, Temples, and Beads: An Investigation of a Colonial Archaeological Assemblage from the Tongva Village of Nájquqar at Two Harbors, Pimu Santa Catalina Island, California (CA-SCaI-39).” California State University, Northridge, Anthropology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/172979. Find at your local library.

Romani, Gwendolyn Roxanne. “In Search of Soapstone.” M.A. Thesis, California State University, Northridge, 1982. https://scholarworks.csun.edu/handle/10211.3/128808. Find at your local library.

Salls, Roy Arnold. “Prehistoric Fisheries of the California Bight.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1988. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Sladeck, Jeremiah John. “Padres Descontentos: Spanish Imperial Policy, Franciscan Decline, and the California Mission System, 1784-1803.” UCLA, 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54d3x68m.

Stewart, Kelly Leah. “(Re)Writing and (Re)Righting California Indian Histories: Legacies of Saint Boniface Indian Industrial School, 1890 to 1935.” UCLA, 2018. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qx1w2mz.

Valentin, Sylvere. “Prehistoric Population Replacement on Californias Channel Islands.” California State University, Los Angeles, 2010. Access through Cal State Los Angeles. Find at your local library.

Villavicencio, Sedna. “The UCLA Fowler Museum & Collaborative Repatriation: An Analysis of NAGPRA Compliance Working with California Indian Tribes.” UCLA, 2019. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jj7q7rd.

Weisbord, Jill. “Quail Hill: Archaeological Excavations at CA-ORA-386.” M.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1985. Access through California State University, Dominguez Hills. Find at your local library.

Welch, Rosanne. “A Brief History of the Tongva Tribe: The Native Inhabitants of the Lands of the Puente Hills Preserve.” Claremont Graduate University, 2006. https://habitatauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/native_american_history.pdf. Find at your local library.

Zachary, Brian Curtis. “The Enduring Evolution of Kuruvungna: A Place Where We Are in the Sun.” M.H.P., University of Southern California, 2007. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.