Alyeupkigna (also, Aleupkigna and Almpquig-na) is a former
Tongva
The Tongva ( ) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately . Some descendants of the people prefer Kizh as an endonym that, they argue, is more historically ...
-Gabrieleño
Native American settlement in
Los Angeles County,
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
.
It was located at
Santa Anita, in the
San Gabriel Valley, at the base of Little Santa Anita Canyon.
Alyeupkigna
Rancheria was established in 1800 as an agricultural outpost of
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
Hugo Reid
Hugo Reid (April 18, 1811 – December 12, 1852), a Scottish immigrant, was an early resident of Los Angeles County who became known for writing a series of newspaper articles, or "letters," that described the culture, language, and contemporary ...
built an adobe residence beside spring fed
Baldwin Lake on the site in 1839–40, and received the full
Mexican land grant for
Rancho Santa Anita
Rancho Santa Anita was a land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given to naturalized Scottish immigrant Hugo Reid and his Kizh people wife. Reid built an adobe residence there in 1839, and the land grant was formally recognized ...
in 1845.
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The site is within the present day Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 127 acres (51.4 ha), is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia, California, United States. Open daily, it only close ...
and city of Arcadia. [
]
See also
* Yaanga
Yaanga was a large Tongva (or Kizh) village originally located near what is now downtown Los Angeles, just west of the Los Angeles River and beneath U.S. Route 101. People from the village were recorded as ''Yabit'' in missionary records althou ...
*
** Tongva language
References
Tongva populated places
Arcadia, California
Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California
Former Native American populated places in California
San Gabriel Valley
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