{{Short description|Former Tongva village in Olive, California}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
'''Totpavit''', alternative spellings '''Totabit'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/84385?ln=en&v=pdf |title=Village Names in Twelve California Mission Records |publisher=University of California Archaeology Research Facility, Department of Anthropology |year=1968 |pages=138}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Martínez |first=Roberta H. |author-link=Roberta H. Martinez|title=Latinos in Pasadena |date=2009 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=978-0-7385-6955-0 |location=Charleston, SC |pages=10 |oclc=402526696}}</ref> and possibly '''Totavet''',<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=McLendon |first=Sally |title=Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains: Final Report, Volume 2 |publisher=National Park Service |year=1999 |pages=3}}</ref> was a Tongva village located in what is now Olive, California.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/isbn_1879442663 |title=House pits and middens : a methodological study of site structure and formation processes at CA-ORA-116, Newport Bay, Orange County, California |date=1998 |location=Tucson, Ariz. |publisher= Statistical Research Inc. |isbn=978-1-879442-66-5 |editor-last=Grenda |editor-first=Donn R. |pages=17 |editor-last2=Doolittle |editor-first2=Christopher J. |editor-last3=Altschul |editor-first3=Jeffrey H.}}</ref> The village was located between the Santa Ana River and Santiago Creek.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast |date=2002 |publisher=Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |others=Jon Erlandson, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |isbn=978-1-938770-67-8 |location=Los Angeles |pages=64–65 |oclc=745176510}}</ref> It was part of a series of villages along the Santa Ana River, including Genga, Pajbenga, and Hutuknga.<ref name=":2" />
Mission records indicate that 11 people from the village were baptized, likely at Mission San Gabriel, from between 1781 and 1803, including 3 men, 7 women, and 1 child.<ref name=":0" /> In 1978, it was indicated that the village site was probably buried under alluvium and that the village site had been occupied for thousands of years.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjM0AQAAMAAJ |title=Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek: Environmental Impact Statement |year=1978 |pages=21}}</ref>
The village's name derived from the word "tota," which was recorded as meaning "rock" in the Tongva language.<ref name=":1" />
== See also ==
== References == <references />
{{Tongva villages}} {{Indigenous peoples of California}}
Category:Tongva populated places Category:History of Orange County, California Category:Former Native American populated places in California