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Comicranga was a coastal Tongva village located at what is now the area of Santa Monica, California. It is most notable as the home village in the early 19th century of Bartolomea, better known as Victoria Reid after her second marriage. She was a respected Indigenous woman in Mexican California, who was among the few indigenous people to receive a land grant. As a young widow, she married Scottish immigrant Hugo Reid, who became a naturalized Mexican citizen. The village is referred in various records and spellings to as Comigranga, Comicraibit, Comicrabit, and possibly Coronababit.

History
Indigenous (pictured with a tomol) through marriage ties. The village was established in the coastal region of western Tovaangar. As a coastal village, the usage of ''te'aats'' may have been important to the village's people. Villagers likely ate acorns, seeds, berries, small game, fish and shellfish. Shell mounds were also likely a part of the village. The people in the village was connected to the Chumash through marriage ties. The earliest recorded baptisms of people being taken to Mission San Gabriel began in 1790. These baptisms reportedly peaked around 1803 and 1805, and then dropped off by 1819. This was around the same time that ranchers began to acquire land in the area of the village. Children died very young at the missions. One missionary at Mission San Gabriel reported that three out of every four children born died before reaching the age of two. The mission period ended with the passage of the Mexican secularization act in 1833 by the First Mexican Republic. Secularization at Mission San Gabriel occurring shortly after. == Victoria Bartolomea Reid ==
Victoria Bartolomea Reid
Bartolomea was born at Comicranga between 1808 and 1810 as the daughter of the chief of the village and his wife. Missionaries took her from the village and her parents at the age of six, for conversion to Christianity at Mission San Gabriel. There she lived with other girls, single women and widows in a guarded dormitory. == References ==
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