"Gabrieleño" was the name assigned to the Indigenous peoples surrounding Mission San Gabriel by the Spanish. It was not a name that the people ever used to refer to themselves. However, it remains a part of every official tribe's name, either as "Gabrieleño" or "Gabrielino." Because of the disagreement between tribal groups surrounding usage of the term "Tongva", "Gabrieleño" has been used as a mediating term. For example, when Debra Martin, a city council member from Pomona, led a project to dedicate wooden statues in local Ganesha Park to the Indigenous people of the area in 2017, there was considerable conflict over which name, "Tongva" or "Kizh", would be used on the dedication plaque. A tentative agreement was reached to use the term "Gabrieleño", despite its colonial origins.