Tongva

Tongva, any of two, or possibly three, dialectally and culturally related Indigenous North American groups who historically spoke a language of Uto-Aztecan stock and lived in the lowlands, along the seacoast, and on islands in southern California at the time of Spanish colonization. The Tongva proper inhabited what are now southern and eastern Los Angeles county and northern Orange county, as well as the islands of Santa Catalina and San Clemente. They are often called...