Editing Colton, California (section)

===Indigenous peoples===
Before Spanish settlement, the area was inhabited by the [[Tongva]], [[Serrano people|Serrano]], and Cahuilla.<ref name="Colton">{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.colton.ca.us/colton_history_070505.html |title=Colton – History |access-date=December 11, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327202443/http://www.ci.colton.ca.us/Colton_History_070505.html |archive-date=March 27, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite book |last=Gunther |first=Jane Davies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CwwSAQAAIAAJ&q=homhoa+canyon |title=Riverside County, California, Place Names: Their Origins and Their Stories |date=1984 |publisher=J.D. Gunther |pages=240–41 |language=en}}</ref> The Tongva village of [[Homhoangna]] was located in the area that is now Colton, situated near the base of the foothills of [[Reche Canyon]], historically known as Homhoa Canyon, derived from the [[Tongva language]] word ''homhoabit'' or "hilly place."<ref name="auto"/>