Harasgna 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
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.
Its precise location is unknown.
It was listed as one of twenty seven ''rancherias'', as the Spanish referred to them, or villages in the records of
Mission San Gabriel
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, along with numerous other villages, alphabetically between
Hahamongna and
Houtgna.
According to one source,
Hubert Howe Bancroft
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, the name referred to
San Clemente Island, rather than a village. An essay by
Gustav Eisen in 1915 wrote, "the Indians on the island were known as 'Kinkapar' and the island itself as Harasgna."
See also
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Lupukngna
Lupukngna was a coastal Tongva village that was at least 3,000 years old located on the bluffs along the Santa Ana River in Huntington Beach near the Newland House Museum. Other nearby coastal villages included Genga, located in West Newport Bea ...
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Toviscanga
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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 ...
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: Tongva populated places
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Tongva language
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California mission clash of cultures
The California mission clash of cultures occurred at the Spanish Missions in California during the Spanish Las Californias- New Spain and Mexican Alta California eras of control, with lasting consequences after American statehood. The Missions w ...
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Ranchos in California
The Spanish and Mexican governments made many concessions and land grants in Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish Concessions of land were made to retired soldiers as an inducement for t ...
References
Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California
Former Native American populated places in California
Former populated places in California
Tongva populated places
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