# Tuyunga

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thumb|Big Tujunga Canyon (2011)
'''Tuyunga''' or '''Tujunga''' ([Tongva](/source/Tongva_language): ''Tuhuunga'', “place of the old woman”)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Topanga, Cahuenga and Tujunga — sounds from a rediscovered local language |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/topanga-cahuenga-and-tujunga-sounds-from-a-rediscovered-local-language |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=UCLA |language=en-US}}</ref> is a former [Tongva](/source/Tongva_people) (Fernandeño) village now located at [Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles](/source/Sunland-Tujunga%2C_Los_Angeles) in [Los Angeles County](/source/Los_Angeles_County%2C_California), [California](/source/California). The village was located near the original [Rancho Los Encinos](/source/Rancho_Los_Encinos) that became the [Mission San Fernando Rey de España](/source/Mission_San_Fernando_Rey_de_Espa%C3%B1a) in the [San Fernando Valley](/source/San_Fernando_Valley).<ref name="gnis">{{gnis|1732628}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Education |first=United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Special Subcommittee on Indian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxQ8AAAAIAAJ |title=Indian Education, 1969: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on Policy, Organization, Administration, and New Legislation Concerning the American Indians |date=1969 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=125 |language=en}}</ref>

People of the village frequently intermarried with people from neighboring [Chumash](/source/Chumash_people) villages.<ref name=":0" /> The nearby valley renamed [Crescenta Valley](/source/Crescenta_Valley) by the [Spanish](/source/Spanish_Empire) was potentially used as a seasonal hunting location with access to the waters of the canyon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sadler |first=Jo Anne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYl2CQAAQBAJ |title=Crescenta Valley Pioneers & Their Legacies |date=2012-06-19 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-61423-571-2 |language=en}}</ref> The Tongva regularly cultivated plants in the region, as reported by a Spanish survey of the area in 1795, who sought to exploit the site for the construction of another mission.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sherer |first=John Calvin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8O9DAAAAYAAJ |title=History of Glendale and Vicinity |date=1923 |publisher=Glendale History Publishing Company |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref>

== Toponymy ==
The village name is referred to in the following places:

* [Big Tujunga Creek](/source/Big_Tujunga_Creek), major stream in Los Angeles County
* [Big Tujunga Dam](/source/Big_Tujunga_Dam), dam in Los Angeles County
* [Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles](/source/Sunland-Tujunga%2C_Los_Angeles), a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles
* [Tujunga Wash Greenway](/source/Tujunga_Wash_Greenway), a cycling route
* [Tujunga Wash](/source/Tujunga_Wash), a tributary of the Los Angeles River
* [Rancho Tujunga](/source/Rancho_Tujunga), a former rancho

==See also==
*[Tovaangar](/source/Tovaangar)

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Category:Tongva
Category:San Fernando 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 populated places
Category:Native Americans in Los Angeles

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