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Achois Achois (also, Achoic Comihauit) is a former Tongva Indian settlement in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California. It was located at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, as a Mission Indians rancheria. Name Variations or Other Villages: Comments: source: Hoover, Mildred B., et al. Historic Spots in California. 3rd edition. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966. p163
Achooykomenga Native place/village where the Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Notes from Hugo Reid's letters of 1852. Acuragna Acuragna is a former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American settlement in Los Angeles County, California Exact location is unknown. (The Presa/La Presa)
Agoura Hills, California The area was first settled by the Chumash/Gabrielino Native Americans around 10,000 years before present. As the Alta California (Upper California) coast was settled by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the late 1700s, the El Camino Real (the Royal Road or King's Highway), a road from Loreto, Baja California, Mexico to Sonoma, California, and connecting the Spanish missions in California, was established through the heart of what would later be known as Agoura Hills. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoura_Hills,_California
Ahapchingas Ahapchingas is a former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American settlement in Los Angeles County, California. It was located between Los Angeles and San Juan Capistrano; its precise location is unknown.
Ahau Located somewhere near the Los Angeles River. No other information available at this time. Ahura A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Ahwaanga Ahwaanga was a coastal village located near the Los Angeles River and within the city boundaries of Long Beach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,_California
Ahmutskupiangna A Tongva village in the Cajon Pass.
Ajaarvongna A name for Puente Hills and/or a Tongva village.
Akuuranga Near Pasadena and/or San Gabriel Mission Name Variations or Other Villages:
Alyeupkigna A former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American village in the County of Los Angeles, California.. It was located at Santa Anita / Arcadia, CA in the San Gabriel Valley. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Amaunga A village located near Bixby Knolls and Long Beach. No other information available at this time.
Amuscopopiabit The baptismal records from the San Gabriel Mission lists this village and 70 as the number of converts. (1777-1815) Name Variations or Other Villages:
Amupunga A village located near Compton, CA.
Amutskupinga A village located near Cajon Junction in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Anaheim, California The village of Hotuuknga was located here. see: Hotuuknga
Apachianga The village was located near the City of Los Angeles and Boyle Heights. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Ashaawanga The Tongva village located near Chatsworth. Asuksa A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming. Ataavyanga A village located in the Palos Verdes area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Atavsangna A Tongva village located near Burro Flats.
Awingna Awingna (also, Awiz-na) is a former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American settlement in Los Angeles County, California. It was located at the site of modern-day La Puente, in the San Gabriel Valley. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Awiinga A village near La Puente, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Azucsagna Azucsagna (also, Asucsagna) is a former Tongva-Gabrieleno village located in Azusa, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Azusa, California The village of Asuksangna was located here. see: Asucsagna
Balboa, California The Tongva village of Mayongna was located here.
Ballona Wetlands The Ballona Wetlands are located in Southern California, USA south of Marina del Rey and east of Playa del Rey. The wetlands once included the areas now taken up by Marina del Rey, Venice, and Playa Vista, extending north to about present-day Washington Blvd. in Venice. Many Tongva villages existed in the Ballona Wetlands area (Culver City, Santa Monica) of Los Angeles where the river meets the sea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballona_Wetlands
Bell Canyon, California Chumash Native Americans lived in the canyon, research shows, for around 8,000 years. The Chumash had the village of Hu'wam here in the canyon on Bell Creek upstream from Escorpión Peak. It was multi-cultural, where Chumash, Tongva, and Tataviam peoples lived and traded together. Nearby is the Burro Flats Painted Cave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Canyon,_California BLACK STAR CANYON A Tongva settlement in the Santa Ana Mountains.
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve in the city of Huntington Beach, California, The history of Bolsa Chica is a long and varied one. The earliest peoples were the Tongva Indians of California. Archaeologists have found cog stones which date back 8,000 years and are the only surviving relic of the Indian lifestyle. Their exact purpose is unknown, but speculation has centered on religious or astronomical use. Cog stones can be seen at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Chica_Ecological_Reserve
Burro Flats Painted Cave, California The cave is located near the historic Chumash settlement of Hu'wam, along upper Bell Creek, and Tongva/Fernandeño settlement Jucjauynga and Atavsangna. The Burro Flats pictographs have been termed "the best preserved Indian pictograph in Southern California." Archaeologists estimate the drawings are several hundred years old. There is a replica of the pictographs at the Southwest Museum in Highland Park, Los Angeles. One theory about the drawings is that they were a cooperative effort between the Chumash and Gabrielino tribes in the 1400s to celebrate the solstice and friendship between the two tribes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burro_Flats_Painted_Cave "Perhaps the most detailed description of condor ceremony in southern California comes from the Panes (or bird) festival of the Luiseño. It was described by Friar Boscana of Mission San Juan Capistrano and by Friar Peyri of Mission San Luis Rey in the early 19th century. Similar ceremonies were held by the Gabrieliño, Cahuilla, Kumeyaay and Cupeño (Kroeber 1907; 2002)".
Click here for rock art video. http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23527
Cahuenga, California Kaweengna/Cahuenga was a former village near the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. see: Cahuenga, Cabeugna, and Cabuenga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuenga,_California
Cahuenga Cahuenga is a former Tongva village near the San Fernando Mission in the San Fernando Valley. Its precise location is unknown. The name was used for the historic Mexican land grant Rancho Cahuenga. The name survives in Cahuenga Pass between the Valley and Hollywood, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Campo de Cahuenga in Studio City, California, where the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed. Name Variations or Other Villages: Okowvinjha. A former Gabrieleno Carpenter's Ranch A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming. Ceegenga Unknown location. Cerritos, California Cerritos was originally inhabited by Native Americans belonging to the Tongva (or "People of the Earth") tribe. Later, the Tongva would be renamed the "Gabrieleños" by the Spanish settlers after the nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. The Gabrieleños were the largest group of Southern California Indians as well as the most developed in the region. The Gabrieleños lived off the land, deriving food from the animals or plants that could be gathered, snared, or hunted, and grinding acorns as a staple. Beginning in the late 1400s, Spanish explorers arrived in the New World and worked their way to the California coast in 1542. The colonization process included "civilizing" the native populations in California by means of establishing various missions. Soon afterwards, a town called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (Los Angeles today) would be founded and prosper with the aid of subjects from New Spain and Native American labor. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerritos,_California
Chaawvenga The village was located in the Palos Verdes and San Pedro area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Chatsworth, California 34° 15′ 26″ N, 118° 36′ 4″ W Village of "Stoney Point" was located here by the Tongva.
Chibugna The San Fernando Mission registry identifies this village. Name Variations or Other Villages: Chokiishnga A village once located near Bell Gardens, California. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Chowiinga A village was located in the Palos Verdes area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Comicranga A village located near the San Gabriel Mission. Name Variations or Other Villages: Cucamonga A former village located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California. Its precise location is unknown except near Cucamonga, CA/Cucamonga Farm. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Culver City, California "The Gabrielino Indians were Culver City's first residents. They were of Shoshonean linguistic stock, and their tribes occupied the Los Angeles area, north of Ventura, down to Riverside and San Bernardino, Orange County and across to the San Clemente Islands. They were a peaceful people, loving to one another and who did not believe in the destruction of human beings, and consequently do not have things to hurt bodies or minds." read more: By Culver City Historian, Julie Lugo Cerra see: Huachongna
Dodger Stadium In 1962, the Dodgers played their first game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The bums lost, but it may have been caused by the bad karma at Chavez Ravine. Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles has been many things: a Tongva Indian village, a cattle ranch, a hospital for smallpox victims, and a residential neighborhood, mostly Hispanic. Built in the Los Angeles community of Chávez Ravine in Sulfur Canyon, the stadium overlooks downtown Los Angeles and provides views of the city to the south, the green tree-lined hills of Elysian Park to the north and east, and the San Gabriel Mountains beyond the outfield pavilions.
Downey, California Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in Alta California, the area that now comprises Downey was inhabited by the Tongva ethnic group, which came to be called the Gabrielino by the Spanish. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downey,_California see: Naxaawngna
El Segundo The El Segundo and Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños) and Chumash Native American tribes hundreds of years ago. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Segundo,_California Engvangna A village near Rodondo Beach, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Gardena, California Based on archaeological findings, Tongva Indians hunted and fished in the area of today's Gardena.The Tongva Indians — also known as Gabrielino Indians — are probably descendants of those who crossed from Asia to North America around 10,000 years ago. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardena,_California
Geveronga A lost village only known by name and located somewhere near the Los Angeles River. No further information available at this time.
Guichi A village located near San Gabriel, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Guinguina A village located on San Clemente Island Name Variations or Other Villages: -Guasna, Guaschna and Guaaschna See San Clemente Island
Hahamongna A village site that was once located near Pasadena, CA possibly in the location of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Hahamogna inhabited the Arroyo Seco around Pasadena and Altadena, California in the San Gabriel Valley of present day Los Angeles County. They have also been called Pascual. The name Hahamongna is now applied to Hahamongna Watershed Park, a recreational and open space area of the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. see; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahamog-na http://www.cityofpasadena.net/History.aspx Name Variations or Other Villages:
Harasgna A former village in the Los Angeles Basin. Location is unknown.
Haramoknga A village that was located near Pasadena, CA.
Harashngna The name of San Nicholas Island and/or a Tongva village. Hawthorne, California Hawthorne's first known residents were Indians of the Shoshonian linguistic group, occupying the South Bay, Los Angeles area as early as the 1500s. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne,_California
Homhoangna The name of the city of Colton and/or a Tongva village.
Honmoyausha Research underway for location in Los Angeles County.
Horuuvngna A Tongva village located in Jurupa.
Houtnga The village was located near the San Gabriel Mission. (Ranchito de Lugo) Name Variations or Other Villages:
Hotuuknga The village was located near Anaheim, Santa Ana and the Santa Ana River. This area was the home of the Luiseno, Tongva, and Juaneño Indians at one time. Name Variations or Other Villages: see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorba_Linda,_California
Houtngna A village located in the El Monte area. Huachongna A village located in the Culver City area.
Huutnga A village that was located near the Watts/Compton, CA area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Hutuk, Hotuuk,
Hyperion A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Isanthcogna The village was located near the original location of the San Gabriel Mission and Rancho San Pascual. (Mission Vieja) Name Variations or Other Villages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isanthcogna,_California Jaboneria A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming. Jajamonga Unknow location. Jajamonga, Jajamobit, Jajamovit, Haahamonga Joatngna A village in the Mt. Baldy area.
Jucjauynga A Tongva village located near Burro Flats. -Jucjauynga
Juyubit The village was near the San Gabriel Mission and the San Gabriel River. A narrative legend/story mentions Tongvan heroine Toypurina and this location. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Kaawchamangna The name for the city of Redlands and/or a Tongva village. Kawe A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Kengaa A coastal village near Newport Beach, CA
Kenyaanga A coastal village located near Newport Beach, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Kiingkenga* A village on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Kiingkenga* The name of San Clemente Island and/or a Tongva village. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Kiinkpar A village on San Clemente Island. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Kokomcar A possible village near the San Fernando Mission. Exact location unknown.
Komiicranga A village located east of the Malibu area which is considered to be the most northern coastal boundary of the Gabrielinos. The Humaliwo village of the Chumash was located at the foot of Malibu Canyon.
Kowanga It was located near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Kuukaamonga See Cucamonga entry.
Kuruvungna Sacred site and village located in West Los Angeles, CA/Santa Monica, CA. University Senior High School and the Serra Springs is located here. (California Historical Landmark) La Presa A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Long Beach, California Indigenous people have lived in coastal southern California for at least ten thousand years. Over the centuries, several successive cultures inhabited the present-day area of Long Beach. By the time Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century, the dominant group were the Tongva people. They had at least three major settlements within the present day city boundaries. Tevaaxa'anga was an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuu'nga were coastal villages. Along with other Tongva villages, they were forced to relocate in the mid 1800s due to missionization, political change, and a drastic drop in population from exposure to European diseases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,_California
Lopuuknga The village was located near Costa Mesa and the Santa Ana River.
Los Angeles County Gabrielino villages existed throughout the Los Angeles Basin. When Cabrillo arrived in 1542 in San Pedro Bay, he called the land the "Bay of Smokes" because he saw so many village fires inland.
Lukupangna A village located near the mouth of the Santa Ana River/Huntington Beach. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Maalewonga A village located near Malibu, CA.
Maasavnga A village located around the Palos Verdes Estates. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Mapipinga A village located near the San Fernando Mission. though more distant tribes to the
Maugna A village located at Rancho Los Felix and Hollywood area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
The land on which Maywood now stands had been populated by Native American tribes for centuries. After Spain took over California, the slightly more than a square mile of undeveloped property, was originally deeded in 1781 by the monarchy, to Spanish War veteran Manuel Nieto. When the settlement of Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles was recorded, it included the cow pasture that as eventually turned into a rancho. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maywood,_California Mission Vieja A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Momwahomomutngna A village located in the San Dimas and Glendora area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Moniikang A village located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Monrovia, California Monrovia is the fourth oldest general law city in Los Angeles County and the L.A. Basin (after Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Pasadena). Incorporated in 1887, Monrovia has grown from a sparse community of orange ranches to a residential community of 37,000. People traveling between Los Angeles and San Bernardino traveled "via Monroe's Ranch," hence the name. Around 500 BC, a band of Shoshonean-speaking Indians established settlements in what is now the San Gabriel Valley. These native Americans came to be called the Gabrieliño Indians by early Spanish explorers, and are now referred to as the Tongva. The Tongva were not farmers; they gathered wild seeds, berries, and plants along rivers and in marshlands. Abundant oaks in the Valley, such as Coast Live Oak and Interior Live Oak provided a staple of the Tongva diet: acorn mush made of boiled acorn flour. see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monrovia,_California
Monterey Park, California For at least seven thousand years the land was populated by the Tongva (Gabrielino) Native Americans. The Tongva lived in dome like structures with thatched exteriors, an open smoke hole for ventilation and light at the top. Both sexes wore long hair styles and tattooed their bodies. During warm weather the men wore little clothes but the women would wear minimal skirts made of animal hides. During the cold weather they would wear animal skin capes and occasionally wore sandals made from hide of yucca fiber. With the arrival of the Spaniards, Old World diseases killed off many of the Tongva, and by 1870 very few Native-Americans had survived. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Park,_California
Motuucheyngna A Tongva village located in the Seal Beach area of Long Beach.
Moyonga A village site located near Corona Del Mar Name Variations or Other Villages:
Mt. Baldy Mount Baldy, or Old Baldy, rises to 10,688 feet and is the highest peak in Los Angeles County. Mount Baldy, which also is known by its formal name Mount San Antonio, is part of the San Gabriel Mountains and located in the San Bernardino National Forest. It once was home to the Tongva Indian tribe and was the site of scientific experiments. It's now a popular hiking area and ski resort. read more at: Name Variations or Other Villages:
Mt. Wilson Mount Wilson is one of the better known peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains, part of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. Trails on the flanks of Mt. Wilson:
Muhunga A village located near the Sylmar, CA area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Muhuvit A village near the San Fernando area. Legend .......... In the Lodge of Muhuvit , which lay behind the hills of San Fernando, once lived a chief connected with the following legend, who was a great wizard and enchanter....see Hugo Reid document.
Mutuucheynga A village located near the Long Beach / Seal Beach area.
Naayxoxar A village located at Isthmus on Santa Catalina Island.
Nacaugna The village was located near La Habra, CA. (Carpenter's Ranch) Name Variations or Other Villages: Nacaugna. A Gabrieleno rancheria for
Naxaawnga The village was located near the Downey area. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Okowvinjha A village located near Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana in the San Fernando Valley. though more distant tribes to the
Ongoovanga A village located near Redondo Beach, CA.
Ongobehangna A village located near Malibu, CA.
Otsunga A village that was located in the heart of Los Angeles and close to Alhambre.
Pacoima, Los Angeles Pacoima's first inhabitants were the semi-nomadic Tongva and Tataviam Native American tribes; the name Pacoima comes from the Tataviam (or Fernandeño) language. In 1797, Spanish colonists built the nearby Mission San Fernando Rey, but the Pacoima area remained without permanent settlement until 1887. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacoima,_Los_Angeles,_California Name Variations or Other Villages:
Pahav A village located southeast of Corona.
Pakooyngna The name for city of Pacoima and/or a Tongva village.
Pamajam A village located near Corona, Silverado and near the Santa Ana Mountains.
Pasbenga A village located near Santa Ana, CA and the Santa Ana River. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Pasecgna A village located near the San Fernando Mission. Name Variations or Other Villages: Notes from Hugo Reid's letters of 1852.
Passinonga A village located in the Chino Hills of Chino, CA in San Bernardino County. Name Variations or Other Villages: Pasinpgna. A former Gabrieleno rancheria Pavunga A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Paxauxa A village was located in Riverside County near Norco, CA. Pear Orchard A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Pemookangna The village was located near Walnut, CA. and La Puente, CA.
Perrooksnga The village was located near La Puente, CA and the San Gabriel River.
Pimocagna The village was located at the Andrés Ybarra "Ybarra Ranch" in the Los Angeles area, just east of Burbank.
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Pineugna A village on Santa Catalina Island.
Pipiimar* A village on Santa Catalina Island on the Avalon side of the island. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Pipiimar* May have also been a village in San Gabriel with the same name. Pisek
Povuunga Povuunga was a coastal village located near the Los Angeles River and within the city boundaries of Long Beach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,_California The Tongva people had at least three major settlements in Long Beach: Tevaaxa'anga was an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuu'nga were coastal villages. CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Povomeparngna The name for the Pasadena Arroyo Seco area and /or a Tongva village. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Pubugna The village was located near Long Beach and the San Gabriel River. (Alamitos) Name Variations or Other Villages: Pubugna. A former Gabrieleno rancheria
Puntitavjatngna The name for Pasadena and/or a Tongva village. Puvunga A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Pwinukipar A coastal village near Marina Del Rey.
Rosemead, California Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the area around Rosemead was populated by native Americans of the Tongva or Gabrielino ethnic group. In 1771, the Spanish founded the first San Gabriel mission in the area that is now known as Whittier Narrows on the border between Montebello and Rosemead. In 1775, the mission moved to avoid the spring floods that ruined the first crops, to its present location in San Gabriel. Rancho de los Ybarras A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Quapa A former village in the Los Angeles Basin located in Encino or San Fernando Valley Quapa. A former Gabrieleno village
Saangna A village on the river located close to Playa Del Rey and Marina Del Rey / Santa Monica and Venice. Name Variations or Other Villages:
San Marino, California The site of San Marino was originally occupied by a village of Tongva (Gabrieleño) Indians. The area was part of the San Gabriel Mission. Principal portions of San Marino were included in an 1830 Mexican land grant to Señora Victoria Reid, a Native-American woman and the widow of Hugo Reid, who called it Rancho Huerta de Cuati. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino,_California
Santa Ana, California Hutuk, Hotuuk
Santa Catalina Island Prior to the modern era, the island was inhabited by people of the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe, who, having had villages near present day San Pedro and Playa del Rey, regularly traveled back and forth to Catalina for trade. The Tongva called the island Pimu or Pimugna and referred to themselves as the Pimugnans. Archeological evidence shows Tongva settlement beginning in 7000 BC. These Pimugnans had settlements all over the island at one time or another, with their biggest villages being at the Isthmus and at present-day Avalon, Shark/Little Harbor, and Emerald Bay. The Gabrielino/Tongva are renowned for their mining, working and trade of soapstone which was found in great quantities and varieties on the island. This material was in great demand and was traded along the California coast and as far south as Baja California. There is evidence that several villages existed on the island of Catalina. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Catalina_Island,_California See Pipiimar and Naayxoxar
Santa Clemente Island Can be identified as the Island of Guiguina, Kinki or Kinkipar. See Guinguina map1 Archaeological evidence shows that the island was inhabited, at least on a seasonal basis, by Indians, perhaps as a result of population growth on larger neighboring islands such as Santa Catalina. Due to the lack of firewood, water and basic subsistence materials, this island would be less desirable than some of the others. Given this islands central location, it may have served as an important stop over point for inter-island travel. The Gabrielino Indians spoke a Shoshonian dialect and inhabited the Southern Channel Islands and adjacent mainland. -Tchunashngna http://www.scifoundation.org/barbara.htm Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains have more than 1,000 archeology sites of significance, primarily from the Californian Native American cultures of the Tongva and Chumash people. The mountains were part of their regional homelands for over eight thousand years before the invasion of the Spanish colonizers. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Mountains
Santiago Canyon Flat Gabrielino throwing stick found in this area of San Bernardino County which indicates the possibility of a Tongva village location.
San Fernando Mission
San Fernando Valley The Tongva, later known as the Fernandeño-Gabrieleño Mission Indians after colonization, and the Tataviam to the north and Chumash to the west, had lived and thrived in the Valley and its arroyos for over 8,000 years. They had numerous settlements, and trading and hunting camps, before the Spanish arrived and took their homeland in 1797 for the Mission San Fernando Rey de España and Las Californias ranchos.
San Gabriel Mission The village site Toviseanga was located at the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. Name Variations or Other Villages:
San Nicolas Island San Nicolas was originally the home of the Nicoleño people, who were probably related to the Tongva of the mainland and Santa Catalina Island. It was named for Saint Nicholas by Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno after he sighted the island on the saint's feast day (December 6) in 1602. The Nicoleños were evacuated in the early 19th century by the padres of the California mission system after a series of conflicts with Russian-led Aleutian fur trappers decimated their population. Within a few years of their removal from the island, the Nicoleño people and their unique language became extinct. The most famous resident of San Nicolas Island was the "Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island", christened Juana Maria; her birth name was never known to anyone on the mainland. She was left behind (explanations for this vary) when the rest of the Nicoleños were moved to the mainland. She resided on the island alone for 18 years before she was found by Captain George Nidever and his crew in 1853 and brought back to Santa Barbara. She died seven weeks later, her system unprepared for the different nutritional and environmental conditions on the California mainland. Her story was the basis for Scott O'Dell's Newbery Medal-winning 1960 novel Island of the Blue Dolphins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Woman_of_San_Nicolas_Island
Saway-yanga It was a village located near Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley. A former Gabrieleno The Indians in the neighbor
Sehat A village located in the Downey area.
Sejatnga The village was located near Whittier and the San Gabriel River. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Sheshiikuanungna The name of the city of San Marino and/or a Tongva village.
Shevaanga A village was at the site of the Misión Vieja (or "Old Mission") in Montebello, CA.
Shiishongna The name of the city of Corona and/or a Tongva village. Shua A Gabrielino-Tongva site. More information coming.
Shwaanga The village was located in Long Beach, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Sibanga The village was at the present location of the San Gabriel Mission. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Sisitcanogna The village was located at Pear Orchard in the San Gabriel Valley, possibly in northeast Pasadena. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Siutcanga A village located near Sherman Oaks and Encino CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Sonagna Sonagna is a former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American which was located at White's Ranch/Farm in the downtown Los Angeles area. Sonagna. A former Gabrieleno village Name Variations or Other Villages:
Suangna A village located near Palos Verdes and Long Beach. Name Variations or Other Villages: Tajauta A village located in the Willowbrook, Watts and Inglewood area. (North of Compton) Tchunashngna The name for Santa Barbara Island or the possible name of a Gabrielino village on that island.
Tevaaxaanga Inland village near the Los Angeles River and within the present day city boundaries of Long Beach.
Tibahanga A village near Lakewood and Bixby Knolls. (Cerritos) Name Variations or Other Villages:
Tohlookah Tonva village located near Toluca, Ca.
Toibinga A village near Claremont and Pomona, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Topanga, California Topanga is the name given to the area by the Native American indigenous Tongva tribe, and may mean "a place above." It was the western border of their territory, abutting the Chumash tribe that occupied the coast from Malibu northwards. Bedrock mortars can be found carved into rock outcroppings in many locations. A village near Malibu and Fernwood, CA. Torqua Cave Located on Santa Catalina Island.
Torojoatnga A village located near Claremont, CA. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Totonga A village located near Northridge, CA.
Toveemonga A coastal village on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Toviseanga A village located at the San Gabriel Mission. Name Variations or Other Villages: Tujunga Tuyunga is a former village in Los Angeles County, California. It was located near the original Los Encinos Rancho that became the Mission San Fernando Rey de España and near Sunland, in the San Fernando Valley. The name survives in the Tujunga community of Los Angeles. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Tustin, California The Indians who lived in what is today
the Tustin area were called the "Gabrielino" Indians, for they
were under the jurisdiction of the San Gabriel Mission. Vijanga Unknown location.
Waatsnga A village located near Fontana, CA.
Wapijangna A village located in the Chino Hills of Chino, CA in San Bernardino County. Name Variations or Other Villages:
Weniinga A village located near Covina and San Dimas area. Name Variations or Other Villages: Wenot A village located near at Los Angeles.
Wetlands of the Los Angeles Basin Many Tongva-Gabrielino villages existed in the wetlands where the river meets the sea. A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish. see: Ballona Wetlands Wikangna A village located in the Verdugo Hills. Crescenta Valley’s Indian village.
Wiqanga A village located near Verdugo Hills and La Cresenta.
Xaraashnga* A village located on San Nicolas Island.
Xaraashnga* A village located on the Palos Verdes peninsula. Xoyundgna A village located on the Palos Verdes peninsula.
Yaanga A village located near the city of Los Angeles. Name Variations or Other Villages: Yorba Linda, California Discoveries show that there may have been been Indians (Gabrielino) in the Yorba Linda area as early as 4,000 years ago. http://www.yorbalindahistory.org/index.php /////// A Promised Land in the Tejon Pass
The Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe, a California Indian Tribe is historically known as San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians. The Official Site can be found at http://www.gabrielinotribe.org
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