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The Tataviam (Kitanemuk: people on the south slope) are a Native American group in Southern California. [citation needed] The ancestral land of the Tataviam people includes northwest present-day Los Angeles County and southern Ventura County, primarily in the upper basin of the Santa Clara River, the Santa Susana Mountains, and the Sierra Pelona Mountains.
An earlier alternative suggestion by some scholars is that Tataviam was a Chumashan language, from the Ventureño language and others, of the Chumash-Ventureño and other Chumash groups, that had been influenced by the neighboring Uto-Aztecan speaking peoples (Beeler and Klar 1977). However, the Beeler and Klar proposal is based on a word-list ...
Serrano, Kitanemuk, Tataviam, Vanyume The Tongva ( / ˈ t ɒ ŋ v ə / TONG -və ) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands , an area covering approximately 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2 ).
The Tongva language (also known as Gabrielino or Gabrieleño) is an extinct [1] Uto-Aztecan language formerly spoken by the Tongva, a Native American people who have lived in and around modern-day Los Angeles for centuries.
Serrano, Tongva, [1] Tataviam, and Vanyume The Kitanemuk are an Indigenous people of California and were a tribal village of the Kawaiisu Nation. The Kawaiisu traditionally lived in the Tehachapi Mountains and the Antelope Valley area of the western Mojave Desert of southern California , United States which has historically has been within the ...
Rudy Ortega, left, president of the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, and DWP Commissioner Cynthia Ruiz present a shawl to Mayor Karen Bass at a winter solstice ceremony in Chatsworth ...
Prior to European contact, the Takic languages were spoken along coastal California between modern Malibu and Carlsbad and on the Southern Channel Islands.The Takic languages also were spoken in the Southern California interior, in portions of the Coachella Valley, Mojave Desert and Tehachapi Mountains.
Alfred L. Kroeber put the combined 1770 population of the Serrano, Kitanemuk, and Tataviam at 3,500 and the Serrano proper (excluding the Vanyume) at 1,500. [18] Lowell John Bean suggested an aboriginal Serrano population of about 2,500. [19] As noted, smallpox epidemics and social disruption reduced the population.