Big Tujunga Canyon (2011) Tuyunga or Tujunga (Tongva : Tuhuunga , “place of the old woman”)[ 1] is a former Tongva (Fernandeño) village now located at Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in Los Angeles County , California . The village was located near the original Rancho Los Encinos that became the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley .[ 2] [ 3]
People of the village frequently intermarried with people from neighboring Chumash villages.[ 3] The nearby valley renamed Crescenta Valley by the Spanish was potentially used as a seasonal hunting location with access to the waters of the canyon.[ 4] The Tongva regularly cultivated plants in the region, as reported by a Spanish survey of the area in 1795, who sought to exploit the site for the construction of another mission.[ 5]
The village name is referred to in the following places:
^ "Topanga, Cahuenga and Tujunga — sounds from a rediscovered local language" . UCLA . Retrieved 2023-01-01 .
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tuyunga
^ a b Education, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Special Subcommittee on Indian (1969). Indian Education, 1969: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on Policy, Organization, Administration, and New Legislation Concerning the American Indians . U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 125.
^ Sadler, Jo Anne (2012-06-19). Crescenta Valley Pioneers & Their Legacies . Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61423-571-2 .
^ Sherer, John Calvin (1923). History of Glendale and Vicinity . Glendale History Publishing Company. p. 14.
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