Cahuenga, California
Cahuenga (
The precise location of the village is unknown but it was near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España,[4] possibly near present-day Universal City.[2] In a 2019 map, the village was placed near the Valley Village neighborhood in Los Angeles.[8] Archeologists commissioned by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to investigate the Campo de Cahuenga historic site state "this vicinity was important as the place traditionally identified as the ethnographic village of Kaweenga (various spellings)."[1]
The earliest record of a person from Cahuenga in the mission baptismal registers is from 1798.
The name Cahuenga was later applied to the historic Mexican
See also
- California mission clash of cultures and Spanish missions in California
- Ranchos of Los Angeles County
- Category: Tongva populated places
References
- ^ a b "Campo investigation" (PDF). pp. 12, 16.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cahuenga, California
- ^ Frederick Webb Hodge (1912). Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Vol. 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 186. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cahuenga, California
- ^ a b c "Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians March 2, 2020" (PDF). pp. 106–108.
- ^ "Topanga, Cahuenga and Tujunga — sounds from a rediscovered local language". UCLA. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ "Siutcanga: Going Back Home by GULLEYFATEHI - Issuu". issuu.com. 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ a b Greene, Sean; Curwen, Thomas. "Mapping the Tongva villages of L.A.'s past". www.latimes.com. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ^ VILLAGE NANES IN TWELVE CALIFORNIA MISSION RECORDS. C. Hart Merriam - https://www.tongvapeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/village-names.pdf
- ^ The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's letters of 1852. p. 14. Retrieved 2023-11-05 – via Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.