Editing San Fernando, California (section)

=== Spanish colonial period ===
The [[Mission San Fernando Rey de España]] (named after [[Ferdinand III of Castile|St. Ferdinand]]) was founded in 1797 at the site of [[Achooykomenga]], an agricultural rancho established by [[Juan Francisco Reyes (soldier)|Juan Francisco Reyes]] for [[Pueblo de Los Ángeles]] worked by [[Ventureño Chumash]], [[Fernandeño]] (Tongva), and [[Tataviam]] laborers.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=John R. |date=1997 |title=The Indians of Mission San Fernando |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41172612 |journal=Southern California Quarterly |volume=79 |issue=3 |pages=249–290 |doi=10.2307/41172612 |jstor=41172612 |issn=0038-3929}}</ref>

In 1833, the mission was [[Mexican secularization act of 1833|secularized by the Mexican government]]. During its time as a mission, 1,367 native children were baptized at San Fernando, of which 965 died in childhood. The high death rate of children and adults at the missions sometimes led those kept at the mission to run away.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Guinn |first=James Miller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu81AQAAMAAJ |title=History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs: Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present |date=1907 |publisher=Historic record Company |pages=63 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Champagne |first=Duane |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1245673178 |title=A coalition of lineages : the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians |date=2021 |others=Carole E. Goldberg |isbn=978-0-8165-4285-7 |location=Tucson |pages=56 |oclc=1245673178}}</ref>