Paxauxa

'''Paxauxa''' was a shared Tongva and Payómkawichum village site located at what is now Corona, California along Temescal Creek.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greene |first=Sean |last2=Curwen |first2=Thomas |title=Mapping the Tongva villages of L.A.'s past |url=https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map/ |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=www.latimes.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wkc0AQAAMAAJ |title=Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek: Environmental Impact Statement |date=1978 |pages=122 |language=en}}</ref> Villagers may have appeared in baptismal records at Mission San Juan Capistrano as being from the village '''Axaxa'''. Nearby villages included Poruumanga and Shiishongna.<ref name=":0" /> It is sometimes alternatively spelled '''Pakhavka'''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiSbdw8vGy4C |title=The Masterkey |date=1956 |publisher=Southwest Museum |pages=44–46 |language=en}}</ref>

== Etymology == The village name may have been derived from the Tongva language word ''Axawknga'', roughly translated to "in the net."<ref name=":1" />

== History == [[File:California - Corona - NARA - 23934205.jpg|thumb|226x226px|Historical photo of the circle of Corona, California in the 1940s with Temescal Creek in the foreground. The creek was adjacent to Paxauxa.]]Paxauxa was the site of two villages located on either side of the Temescal Creek on the southern edge of Tovaangar and the northern edge of Payómkawichum territory, with Lake Elsinore 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.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wkc0AQAAMAAJ |title=Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek: Environmental Impact Statement |publisher=US Army Corps of Engineers |year=1978 |pages=122 |chapter=4 Affected Environment}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwi2fcbAPxgC |title=Handbook of North American Indians |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |year=1978 |pages=547}}</ref>

After the establishment of Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, several of the villagers were brought to and baptized at the mission.<ref name=":0" /> It is unclear when the village was abandoned or destroyed.

== See also ==

* Kaawchama * Puhú * Wá’peat * Yaanga

== References == <references />{{Tongva villages}}{{Indigenous peoples of California}}

Category:Tongva populated places Category:Luiseño people Category:Mission Indians Category:History of Riverside County, California Category:Former Native American populated places in California