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Paxauxa was a shared
Paxauxa was the site of two villages located on either side of the Temescal Creek on the southern edge of
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 ...
and Payómkawichum village site located at what is now Corona, California
Corona (Spanish for "Crown") is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 157,136, up from 152,374 at the 2010 census. The cities of Norco and Riverside lie to the north and north ...
along Temescal Creek. Villagers may have appeared in baptismal records at Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano ( es, Misión San Juan Capistrano) is a Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. Founded November 1, 1776 in colonial ''Las Californias'' by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan O ...
as being from the village Axaxa. Nearby villages included Poruumanga and Shiishonga. It is sometimes alternatively spelled Pakhavka.
Etymology
The village name may have been derived from theTongva 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 ...
word ''Axawknga'', roughly translated to "in the net."
History
Paxauxa was the site of two villages located on either side of the Temescal Creek on the southern edge of Tovaangar
Tovaangar (''Tongva'': "the world") refers to the Tongva world or homelands. It includes the greater area of the Los Angeles Basin, including the San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, northern Orange County, parts of San Bernardino County and R ...
and the northern edge of Payómkawichum territory, with Lake Elsinore
Lake Elsinore is a natural freshwater lake in Riverside County, California, located east of the Santa Ana Mountains and fed by the San Jacinto River. Originally named ''Laguna Grande'' by Spanish explorers, it was renamed for the town of Elsino ...
to the south being within Payómkawichum homelands. This likely made it an important site for the Tongva and Payómkawichum socially and politically, since cooperation and marriage ties between the villagers were common.
After the establishment of Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, several of the villagers were brought to and baptized at the mission. It is unclear when the village was abandoned or destroyed.
See also
*Kaawchama
Kaawchama (''Hispanicized'' to Guachama), alternatively referred to as Wa’aachnga ("plenty to eat"), was a significant Tongva village in the San Bernardino Valley located in what is now west Redlands, California. The village became referred to b ...
* Puhú
Puhú (''Payómkawichum'': “its arrow place”) was a major residential village in the Santa Ana Mountains shared by the Tongva, Acjachemen, Payómkawichum, and Serrano near Santiago Peak. The village resided approximately 600m above sea leve ...
* Wá’peat
* 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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