Welcome to the city, Joāt Park
The City of Claremont hosted a ceremony Wednesday to rededicate Cahuilla Park as Joāt Park.
The Claremont City Council voted unanimously in October 2023 to rename the park “to honor the legacy of Claremont’s earliest inhabitants and generations of Indigenous people that have called Claremont home,” according to a post at ci.claremont.ca.us.
“In 1962, the park was originally named for the Cahuilla people, who were believed to be the area’s earliest inhabitants at the time,” the post read. “While the Cahuilla and Serrano people resided in the area, more recent research shows Claremont’s first inhabitants were the Tongva. The park is being rededicated with the name Joāt Park to more accurately reflect history and honor the legacy of the Tongva/Gabrieleno people. The name Joāt refers to Mount San Antonio/Mt. Baldy as the place of snow.”
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