Editing Fullerton, California (section)

===Indigenous===
Evidence of prehistoric animal habitation, such as [[saber-toothed cats]] and [[mammoths]], is present in [[Ralph B. Clark Regional Park]] in the northwest of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.fullerton.ca.us/depts/city_manager/history_of_fullerton/default.asp |title=City of Fullerton Official Website |publisher=Ci.fullerton.ca.us |access-date=November 26, 2011}}</ref>

The area of the city was a part of the homelands of the [[Tongva]] for thousands of years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fullerton {{!}} California, United States {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Fullerton |access-date=January 5, 2023 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> There was a large village in the area along the [[Santa Ana River]] that has since been identified as the [[Hutuknga]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Welch |first=Rosanne |date=2006 |title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TONGVA TRIBE |url=https://habitatauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/native_american_history.pdf |website=Habitat Authority}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Cultural and Paleontological Resources |url=https://www.banningranchconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Appendix-J-Part-1-Cultural-and-Paleontological-Resources.pdf |website=Banning Ranch Conservancy}}</ref> The village was one of the largest throughout all of [[Tovaangar]], or the Tongva world. It was connected by marriage ties to other villages in the area, including [[Genga, California|Genga]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last1=Koerper |first1=Henry |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745176510 |title=Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast |last2=Mason |first2=Roger |last3=Peterson |first3=Mark |date=2002 |publisher=Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |others=Jon Erlandson, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |isbn=978-1-938770-67-8 |location=Los Angeles |pages=64–66, 79 |oclc=745176510}}</ref> [[Acorn]]s and seeds from grasses and [[Salvia|sages]] were regularly cultivated. Trade connections were established with villages on the coast and those further inland.<ref name=":12"/>