Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians claims that when the First Mexican Republic passed the Mexican secularization act of 1833 and seized the California missions, that 50 Tataviam leaders where awarded vast land grants amounting to over 18,000 acres, or around 10% of the San Fernando Valley, including vast swaths of what is today ...
Tochonanga was a Tataviam village now located at the area of what is now Newhall, Santa Clarita, California, along the Santa Clara River. [1] [2] [3] People baptized from the village were largely moved to Mission San Fernando Rey de España and referred to in mission records as Tochonabit. [1]
Chaguayanga was a Tataviam village located at what is now Santa Clarita, California, around the Newhall, Valencia, and Castaic areas. [1] Its original site was located approximately fifteen miles north and slightly west of the San Fernando Mission in the eastern areas of the San Fernando Valley. [2]
Each of these individuals are ancestors to the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. [5] However, following the American occupation of California, control over the land was lost due to a shift in attitudes as well as the business practices of a Californio by the name of Vicente de la Osa. [2]
Cahuenga (/ k ə ˈ w eɪ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ (also Kawé’nga, Cabeugna, Kowanga, Kawengha, Kawee’nga, or Cabuenga) or "place of the hill" is a former Tongva–Tataviam (Fernandeño–Gabrieleño) Native American settlement in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
The Tataviam village of Tochonanga was located at the area where Newhall stands today. [2] Fifty villagers were brought to Mission San Fernando from 1797 to 1811. [3] Descendants of the village continued to live in the Newhall area. [citation needed]
Kas'ele'ew Peak, below which was the village of Hukxa'oynga or Hu'wam where Rancho El Escorpión was established.. Her father was Odón Chijulla, a Chumash man Humaliwo who had been baptized at the San Fernando Rey de España Mission and was considered a leader (or chief) of the Fernandeños living in the western portion of the San Fernando Valley.
Since 2021, the Education and Cultural Learning Department of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians government have partnered with the William S. Hart Museum to host the annual Traveling Tataveaveat: Acorn Harvest museum program.