Awigna, California

{{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox settlement   |name = Awigna |other_name = |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type =Former settlement |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |pushpin_map =California |pushpin_label_position =bottom |pushpin_mapsize = |pushpin_map_caption =Location in California  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name =United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = California |subdivision_type2 =County |subdivision_name2 = Los Angeles County |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = | |established_title =  |established_date = |coordinates = {{coord|34|01|12|N|117|56|58|W|region:US-CA|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes =<ref name=gnis2>{{gnis|1660865|La Puente}}</ref> |elevation_m =107 |elevation_ft =351 |footnotes = }} '''Awigna''' (also, '''Awiz-na''') is a former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American settlement located at the site of modern-day La Puente High School, in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, California.<ref name=gnis>{{gnis|1732509|Awigna}}</ref>

The settlement was one of twenty seven villages included in the records of Mission San Gabriel, indicating that villagers from Awigna were baptized there after its establishment in the Los Angeles Basin in 1776.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hodge |first=Frederick Webb |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOwpAQAAMAAJ |title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: N-Z |date=1912 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=439 |language=en}}</ref> Awigna was described as "one of the principal rancherias to supply it [the mission] with neophytes."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harris |first=Mary Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mEFIAQAAMAAJ |title=John Rowland and William Workman, Pioneers of Southern California |date=1932 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |pages=26 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1915, La Puente High School was built on the village site. During the construction process, many artifacts from the village were unearthed and were reportedly put on display at the school for many years. In 2004, it was reported that the whereabouts of these artifacts were unknown.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Temple |first=Josette Laura |title=Gentle artist of the San Gabriel Valley : California history preserved through the life and painting of Walter P. Temple, Jr. |date=2004 |publisher=Stephens Media Group |others=Laura W. Brundige |isbn=1-932173-31-5 |location=Las Vegas, Nev. |pages=86 |oclc=56894172}}</ref>

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{{Tongva villages}} {{Populations of Native California Groups}} {{Pre-Columbian North America}} {{Indigenous peoples of the Americas}}

Category:Tongva populated places Category:Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California Category:Former Native American populated places in California Category:La Puente, California Category:San Gabriel Valley