A friend and her son found a set of notes he had made about Pasadena history for a school project years ago and lent them to me. I’m blogging excerpts from them bit by bit with their permission. This post is the second in this series, which is not always in chronological order. To see all the posts in this series, click here: Pasadena History Notes.
The Hahamogna tribe lived in the Pasadena area
The Hahamogna — sometimes also spelled Hahamonga — lived in this area and were colonized by the Spanish. The City of Pasadena website has a little bit of information about the Hahamogna, as does the top of this Altadena History web page. Wild Food of the Gabrielino has drawings and information about the foods the Hahamogna ate.
That’s good handwriting!
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Please take note, you’re doing Pasadena and yourself a great disservice by not even verifying the info the kids wrote about indigenous Native American people of Pasadena!!! The name Hahamogna is the name of the village, yes, most likely named after the chief but the name of these people is “TONGVA” sometimes referred to as the Gabrielino Indians but you must know by now that they didn’t give themselves the Spanish name of Gabrielino. This name comes about as a result of their sibjugation by the San Gabriel Mission. Please correct the story or take it off, because it makes you look another “American” who’s ignorant about America’s ancient proud past. And NO, I am not mad, just want to correct you.
Peace, M
The current Tongva orthography would spell the name:
Xaxaamonga (x pronounced like a Spanish “J”) with emphasis on the double vowels “aa”.
The people from that community would have been called the Xaxaamovetam.
One person would have been called a Xaxaamovet.