Shevaanga

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox settlement   |name = Sibagna |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|05|50|N|118|06|28|W|region:US-CA|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis>{{gnis|1732580}}</ref> |elevation_m =131 |elevation_ft =430 |footnotes = }} '''Shevaanga''' or '''Sibagna''' (or '''Sibanga''')<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Hull |first1=Kathleen L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ildnDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Sibanga%22&pg=PT79 |title=Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California |last2=Douglass |first2=John G. |date=2018-10-16 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-3892-8 |pages=69 |language=en}}</ref> is a former Tongva village located at the area of what would become San Gabriel, California.<ref name=gnis /> It was closely situated to the village of Toviscanga.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico. Volume IV, T to Z |date=2003 |others=Frederick Webb Hodge |isbn=978-1-58218-756-3 |location=Scituate, MA |pages=796 |oclc=961309517}}</ref> It lay at an elevation of 430 feet (131 m).<ref name="gnis" /> It was located near Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and the Whittier Narrows, in the San Gabriel Valley.<ref name="gnis" />

== History == The chief of the village was known as ''Sibavie'', as it was customary for the chief of a Tongva village to adopt the name of the village followed by an ''-ie'' suffix, such as ''Asucsagna'' to ''Asucsagnie''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reid |first=Hugo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zFEAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Sibanga%22 |title=The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852 |date=1968 |publisher=Southwest Museum |pages=9; 107 |language=en}}</ref> Residents of the village were referred to as Sibapet.<ref name=":0" />

=== Colonial period and decline === It was located the original site of San Gabriel Mission established in 1771, before the mission was destroyed in a flood and then rebuilt at the nearby village of Toviscanga in 1776. The village declined and eventually disappeared with the growth and expansion of the mission.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wit |first1=Wim de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RStlUu4WdI8C |title=Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 |last2=Alexander |first2=Christopher James |date=2013 |publisher=Getty Publications |isbn=978-1-60606-128-2 |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref>

The village was the birthplace of an Indigenous man referred to by the Spanish as Nicolás Josè, who was publicly an early convert of the Spanish, yet privately continued to practice traditional dances and activities.<ref name=":0" /> He participated in a failed revolt against the missions in 1779 and was instrumental in the major revolt of eight villages against the mission in 1785 along with Toypurina.<ref name=":0" /> Josè admitted that he participated in the rebellion because the Spanish ban on dances in their villages was not tolerable.<ref name=":0" />

==See also==

* Achooykomenga * Puvunga * Yaanga

==References== {{reflist}}

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