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Tongva

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The Tongva are Native Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately. [1]

96 relations: Angeles National Forest, Archaeology, Asphalt, Azusa, California, Ballona Creek, Ballona Wetlands, Cahuenga Pass, Cahuilla, California, California State University, Long Beach, Canoe, Channel Islands (California), Chinigchinix, Chowigna, California, Chumash people, City council, Clinton Hart Merriam, Compton, California, Disneyland, English language, Estuary, Exonym and endonym, Franciscans, Gabrielino Trail, Garden Grove, California, Glendale, California, Heritage Award, Hokan languages, Hunter-gatherer, Huntington Beach, California, Indian reservation, Indigenous peoples of California, John Peabody Harrington, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Juaneño, Kuiper belt, L. Frank, La Brea Tar Pits, LA Weekly, Lawgiver, Los Angeles Basin, Los Angeles Times, Loyola Marymount University, Luiseño, Luiseño language, Mexican Cession, Mexican War of Independence, Mission Indians, Mission San Fernando Rey de España, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, ..., Missionary, National Register of Historic Places, Native American gaming, Native American recognition in the United States, Nevada, Old World, Orpheus, Pacoima, Los Angeles, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Pitch (resin), Playa Vista, Los Angeles, Population of Native California, Population transfer, Puvunga, Rancho Cucamonga, California, Ranchos of California, Richard Polanco, Romance languages, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, San Pedro Bay (California), San Pedro, Los Angeles, Santa Fe Springs, California, Santa Monica, California, Serra Springs (California), Serrano language, Serrano people, Sonoran Desert, Southern California, Spanish language, Spanish missions in California, Strip mall, Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, Takic languages, Tataviam, Tataviam language, Tongva language, Tongva Park, Topanga, California, Toypurina, University High School (Los Angeles), USA Today, Uto-Aztecan languages, Verdugo Mountains, West Los Angeles, 50000 Quaoar. Expand index (46 more) »

Angeles National Forest

The Angeles National Forest (ANF) of the U.S. Forest Service is located in the San Gabriel Mountains and Sierra Pelona Mountains, primarily within Los Angeles County in southern California.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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Azusa, California

Azusa is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Ballona Creek

Ballona Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Ballona Wetlands

The Ballona Wetlands are located in Southern California, United States south of Marina del Rey and east of Playa del Rey.

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Cahuenga Pass

The Cahuenga Pass (from the indigenous Tongva language), elevation, is a low mountain pass through the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles, California.

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Cahuilla

The Cahuilla, also known as ʔívil̃uqaletem or Ivilyuqaletem, are a Native American people of the inland areas of southern California.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB; also known as Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, LBSU, or The Beach) is the third largest campus of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities in the state of California by enrollment, its student body numbering 37,776 for the Fall 2016 semester.

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Canoe

A canoe is a lightweight narrow vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle.

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Channel Islands (California)

The Channel Islands are an archipelago of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel in the United States of America.

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Chinigchinix

Chingichngish (also spelled Chinigchinix, Chinigchinich, Changitchnish, etc.) also known as Quaoar (also Qua-o-ar, Kwawar, etc.) and by other names including Ouiamot, Tobet and Saor is the name of an important figure in the mythology of the Mission Indians of coastal Southern California, a group of Takic-speaking peoples, today divided into the Payomkowishum (Luiseño), Tongva (Gabrieliño and Fernandeño), and Acjachemem (Juaneño) peoples.

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Chowigna, California

Chowigna (also, Unaungna) is a former Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American settlement in Los Angeles County, California.

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Chumash people

The Chumash are a Native American people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south.

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City council

A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.

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Clinton Hart Merriam

Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ethnographer, and naturalist.

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Compton, California

Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.

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Disneyland

Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Exonym and endonym

An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, or a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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Gabrielino Trail

The Gabrielino Trail is a United States National Recreation Trail that runs through the Angeles National Forest with trailheads at Windsor Avenue in Altadena, California on the west end and Chantry Flat, just north of Arcadia, California, on the east.

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Garden Grove, California

Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, located southeast of the city of Los Angeles.

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Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Heritage Award

The PRS for Music Heritage Award is a ceremonial plaque installed in a public place to commemorate a link between a famous musician or music band and the location they performed their first live gig.

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Hokan languages

The Hokan language family is a hypothetical grouping of a dozen small language families that were spoken mainly in California, Arizona and Baja California.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.

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Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California.

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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Indigenous peoples of California

The Indigenous peoples of California (known as Native Californians) are the indigenous inhabitants who have lived or currently live in the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and after the arrival of Europeans.

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John Peabody Harrington

John Peabody Harrington (April 29, 1884 – October 21, 1961) was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the native peoples of California.

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese:João Rodrigues Cabrilho) (born 1499, died January 3, 1543) was a maritime navigator, known for exploring the West Coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire.

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Juaneño

The Juaneño or Acjachemen are an indigenous people of California.

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Kuiper belt

The Kuiper belt, occasionally called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.

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L. Frank

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La Brea Tar Pits

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed in urban Los Angeles.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Lawgiver

Lawgiver may refer to.

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Los Angeles Basin

The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private, co-educational university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Luiseño

The Luiseño, or Payómkawichum, are a Native American people who at the time of the first contacts with the Spanish in the 16th century inhabited the coastal area of southern California, ranging 50 miles from the present-day southern part of Los Angeles County to the northern part of San Diego County, and inland 30 miles.

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Luiseño language

The Luiseño language is a Uto-Aztecan language of California spoken by the Luiseño, a Native American people who at the time of the first contacts with the Spanish in the 16th century inhabited the coastal area of southern California, ranging from the southern part of Los Angeles County, California, to the northern part of San Diego County, California, and inland.

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Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

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Mexican War of Independence

The Mexican War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de México) was an armed conflict, and the culmination of a political and social process which ended the rule of Spain in 1821 in the territory of New Spain.

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Mission Indians

Mission Indians are the indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California, and the Asisténcias and Estáncias established between 1796 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

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Mission San Fernando Rey de España

Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on September 8, 1797, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission is the namesake of the nearby city of San Fernando and the San Fernando Valley. The mission was secularized in 1834 and returned to the Catholic Church in 1861; it became a working church in 1920. Today the mission grounds function as a museum; the church is a chapel of ease of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Native American gaming

Native American gaming comprises casinos, bingo halls, and other gambling operations on Indian reservations or other tribal land in the United States.

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Native American recognition in the United States

American Indian tribal recognition in the United States most often refers to the process of a tribe being recognized by the United States federal government, or to a person being granted membership to a federally recognized tribe.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Old World

The term "Old World" is used in the West to refer to Africa, Asia and Europe (Afro-Eurasia or the World Island), regarded collectively as the part of the world known to its population before contact with the Americas and Oceania (the "New World").

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Orpheus

Orpheus (Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation) is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Pacoima, Los Angeles

Pacoima is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the northern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.

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Palos Verdes Peninsula

The Palos Verdes Peninsula (from Spanish Palos Verdes: Green sticks) is a landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.

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Pitch (resin)

Pitch is a name for any of a number of viscoelastic polymers.

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Playa Vista, Los Angeles

Playa Vista is a neighborhood located in the Westside of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States, north of LAX.

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Population of Native California

Estimates of the Population of Native Californians prior to and after European contact have varied substantially.

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Population transfer

Population transfer or resettlement is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another, often a form of forced migration imposed by state policy or international authority and most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion but also due to economic development.

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Puvunga

Puvunga (alternate spelling: Puvungna) is an ancient village and burial site thought to have once been populated by the Tongva (Gabrieliño) people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of the region around Los Angeles, California.

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Rancho Cucamonga, California

Rancho Cucamonga is an affluent suburban city situated at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County, California.

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Ranchos of California

The Spanish and later Mexican governments encouraged settlement of the coastal region of Alta California (now known as California) by giving prominent men large land grants called ranchos, usually two or more square leagues, or.

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Richard Polanco

Richard G. Polanco (born 4 March 1951) is a former California State Senate Majority leader and member of the California State Assembly.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

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San Fernando Valley

The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it.

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San Gabriel Mountains

The San Gabriel Mountains are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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San Pedro Bay (California)

San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, United States.

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San Pedro, Los Angeles

San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Santa Fe Springs, California

Santa Fe Springs is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Serra Springs (California)

Serra Springs are a pair of springs located on the campus of University High School in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Serrano language

The Serrano language (Serrano: Maarrênga'twich) is a language in the Serran branch of the Uto-Aztecan family spoken by the Serrano people of Southern California.

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Serrano people

The Serrano are an indigenous people of California.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Spanish missions in California

The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in today's U.S. State of California.

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Strip mall

A strip mall (also called a shopping plaza, shopping center, or mini-mall) is an open-air shopping mall where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front.

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Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles

Sunland-Tujunga is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles located by the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Crescenta Valley.

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Takic languages

The Takic languages are a putative group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by Californian Native Americans in southern California.

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Tataviam

The Tataviam (Kitanemuk: people on the south slope) were a Native American group in Southern California.

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Tataviam language

No description.

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Tongva language

The Tongva language (also known as Gabrielino) is a Uto-Aztecan language formerly spoken by the Tongva, a Native American people who live in and around Los Angeles, California.

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Tongva Park

Tongva Park is a 6.2-acre park in Santa Monica, California.

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Topanga, California

Topanga is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Toypurina

Toypurina (1760–1799) was a (TONGVA—Gabrieliño) Native American medicine woman who opposed the rule of colonization by Spanish missionaries in California, and led an unsuccessful rebellion against them.

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University High School (Los Angeles)

University High School, commonly known as "Uni", is a secondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, near the border of Santa Monica.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Uto-Aztecan languages

Uto-Aztecan or Uto-Aztekan is a family of Indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over 30 languages.

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Verdugo Mountains

The Verdugo Mountains are a small, rugged mountain range of the Transverse Ranges system, located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California.

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West Los Angeles

West Los Angeles is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California.

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50000 Quaoar

50000 Quaoar, provisional designation, is a non-resonant trans-Neptunian object (cubewano) and possibly a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, located in the outermost region of the Solar System.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongva

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