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 ...

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{{Indigenous peoples of California Tongva populated places History of Orange County, California Former Native American populated places in California

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