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.
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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
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