However, although the Tongva were the dominant nation in what's now Los Angeles at the time of the Spanish arrival, they were not, themselves, indigenous to the area. The Chumash were in what's now Los Angeles at least 10,000 years before the Takic Expansion from the east.
Before Los Angeles, there was Yangna, home to the Tongva people, Native Americans who numbered at least 5,000 in the Los Angeles Basin before the arrival of Europeans: https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/stories-map-cave-tongva … #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020pic.twitter.com/pv7Z4sCVzM
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Tongva is a name made up by no Indian. Kihz might be a better term to describe the Indians living around LA before 1781.
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Playa del Rey also had a population, fed by fish and indigenous plants in the area.
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