Totpavit, alternative spellings Totabit
and possibly Totavet,
was a
Tongva village located in what is now
Olive, California. The village was located between the
Santa Ana River
The Santa Ana River is the largest river entirely within Southern California in the United States. It rises in the San Bernardino Mountains and flows for most of its length through San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, before cutting through ...
and
Santiago Creek.
It was part of a series of villages along the Santa Ana River, including
Genga,
Pajbenga, and
Hutuknga.
Mission records indicate that 11 people from the village were baptized, likely at
Mission San Gabriel, from between 1781-1803, including 3 men, 7 women, and 1 child.
In 1978, it was indicated that the village site was probably buried under
alluvium and that the village site had been occupied for thousands of years.
The village's name derived from the word "tota," which was recorded as meaning rock in the
Tongva language
The Tongva language (also known as Gabrielino or Gabrieleño) is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language formerly spoken by the Tongva, a Native American people who live in and around Los Angeles, California. It has not been a language of everyday conve ...
.
See also
*
Genga
*
Lupukngna
*
Yaanga
References
{{Indigenous peoples of California
Tongva populated places
History of Orange County, California
Former Native American populated places in California