Sec. 3. Findings
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Congress finds the following: The traditional homelands of the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation are the Los Angeles Basin and the islands of Santa Catalina, San Nicholas, San Clemente, and Santa Barbara, from Topanga Canyon to Laguna Beach, from the San Gabriel Mountains to the sea. Over 2,000 archaeological sites in the in the Los Angeles County Basin attest to the longevity of Gabrielino/Tongva presence in their homelands. In 1891, in response to the impoverished conditions experienced by Indian Tribes sent to the California missions, Congress passed the Act of January 12, 1891 (26 Stat. 711) commonly known as the Mission Indian Relief Act, which created a special Indian agency with trust responsibilities over Mission Indians in California, including the Gabrielino/Tongva.
In 1928, members of the Gabrielino/Tongva community, many of whom were then living in their traditional homelands in the Los Angeles Basin, enrolled during the California Indian census taken pursuant to the Act of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 602), which identified them as Mission San Gabriel or Gabrielino Indians and under the Federal jurisdiction of the Mission Indian Agency in Riverside, California. In 1952, a congressional report named the Gabrielino/Tongva, known at that time as Gabrieleño or San Gabriel Indians, as one of the Indian Tribes or bands identified in dealings with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (82d Cong., 2d sess., House, Report No. 2503).
In 1972, Gabrielino/Tongva people received settlement funds from the judgment of the Indian Claims Commission in Docket 80 and 80–D under the Act of September 21, 1968 ( Public Law 90–507 ; 82 Stat. 860). In 1994, the State of California recognized the Tongva in Assembly Joint Resolution 96, chaptered by the California Secretary of State as Resolution chapter 146, Statutes of 1994. The Joint Resolution states that the State of California recognizes the Gabrielinos as the aboriginal tribe of the Los Angeles Basin and takes great pride in recognizing the Indian inhabitance of the Los Angeles Basin and the continued existence of the Indian community .
In 1999, the Coastal Gabrielino-Diegueno Band of Mission Indians, the legal predecessor to the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation, filed evidence of its members’ Gabrielino ancestry with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, using certificates of degree of Indian blood prepared by the Act of September 21, 1968. In 2001, the Coastal Gabrielino-Diegueno Band of Mission Indians reorganized, ultimately changing its name to the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation, and opening enrollment to individuals with Gabrielino ancestry certified by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In 2013, the Los Angeles City Council, in Resolution 13-1285, declared its support of the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation in its efforts to restore a government-to-government relationship with the United States. In 2019, the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles found that the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation was the legal successor in interest to the Coastal Gabrielino-Diegueno Band of Mission Indians. The Gabrielino/Tongva Nation presently has a membership of more than 700 Tribal citizens, all of whom descend from a bona fide Gabrielino/Tongva ancestor enumerated on a California Indian Roll prepared by Bureau of Indian Affairs pursuant to the Act of May 18, 1928, Act of May 24, 1950 (64 Stat. 189), and Act of September 21, 1968, and whose ancestors have received Indian services, including education or health care, based upon their status as Indians.
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