"When owner Walter O’Malley brought his Brooklyn team to Chavez Ravine in 1958, he did not know the historical significance of the site. (Neither do most Angelenos, unless they attended Los Angeles public schools in the 1950s or earlier, when Yang-na history was still being taught... The pobladores from Mexico were the first foreigners to settle here, by the authority of the king of Spain, and the new community was blessed with the Los Angeles name. But Chavez Ravine — the area now occupied by Elysian Park, Dodger Stadium and the Los Angeles Police Academy — was first peopled by the Yang-na Indians."
Tag: Los Angeles history
ARTIST’S SKETCH OF JUAN DOMINGO RESIDENCE, 1850
"Artist's sketch of Juan Domingo's large adobe home and vineyard located on the corner of Alameda and Aliso streets. Domingo's real name was Johann Gronigen, a native of Holland who came to America as a ship carpenter. He settled in Los Angeles, and by reason of his arrival in town on a Sunday, and the difficult pronunciation of his German name, the natives called him Juan Domingo."
Remember Yang — what was it? by Elise Emery, 1973
"'Remember Yang-Na' is the name of an exhibit opening Monday in the Grand Hall of The Music Center Pavilion. Yang-Na was the first known aboriginal village near the present Los Angeles City Hall. The show is an attempt to depict Los Angeles from pre-colonial times to the present, then project its future to 2001."



