Editing Arcadia, California (section)

===Rancho period===
The town's site became part of the Spanish [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel]] lands in 1771. After [[Indian Reductions]] to become [[Mission Indians]], the Tongva were known as the ''Gabrieliños'' after the Mission's name. and under whose control these people worked during the mission period in California. Currently there are 1,700 people self-identifying as members of the Tongva or Gabrieliño tribe.<ref name="BillNo.1134">{{cite web |url=http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1134_bill_20080131_introduced.html |title=Senate Bill No. 1134 |last1=Oropeza |first1=J. |author-link1=Jenny Oropeza |last2=Scott |first2=J. |author-link2=Jack Scott (California politician) |last3=Yee |first3=L. |author-link3=Leland Yee |last4=Davis |first4=M. |author-link4=Mike Davis (politician) |last5=Karnette |first5=B. |author-link5=Betty Karnette |date=January 31, 2008 |website=California Legislative Information |publisher=Legislative Counsel of California |access-date=August 19, 2013}}</ref>

The [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grant]] for [[Rancho Santa Anita]] was issued to [[Hugo Reid|Perfecto Hugo Reid]] and his Tongva wife, Victoria Bartolomea Comicrabit, in 1845. It was named after a family relation, Anita Cota, on his wife's side. Reid documented the Gabrieliño Native Americans in a series of letters written in 1852,<ref>Reid, Hugo.  ''The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1853''. Southwest Museum, 1968</ref> and served as a delegate to the [[1849 California Constitutional Convention]]. In 1847, Reid sold Rancho Santa Anita to his [[Rancho Azusa de Dalton|Rancho Azusa]] neighbor, Henry Dalton.