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Juana Maria (died October 19, 1853), better known to history as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island (her Native American name is unknown), was a Native Californian woman who was the last surviving member of her tribe, the Nicoleño.
The Nicoleño were the people who lived on San Nicolas Island in California at the time of European contact. They spoke a Uto-Aztecan language. The population of the island was "left devastated by a massacre in 1811 by sea otter hunters." [2] Its last surviving member, who was given the name Juana Maria, [3] was born before 1811 and died in 1853.
A U.S. Navy MQM-8G Vandal missile firing from San Nicolas Island, California (US), in 1999 U.S. Navy facilities on San Nicolas Island, 2009 San Nicolas Island was one of eight candidate sites to detonate the first atomic bomb before White Sands Proving Ground was selected for the Trinity nuclear test. [ 14 ]
Island of the Blue Dolphins is a 1960 children's novel by American writer Scott O'Dell, which tells the story of a girl named Karana, who is stranded alone for years on an island off the California coast. It is based on the true story of Juana Maria, a Nicoleño Native American left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island during the nineteenth ...
George Nidever (also spelled Nidiver; December 20, 1802 – March 24, 1883) was an American mountain man, explorer, fur trapper, memoirist and sailor. In the 1830s he became one of the first wave of American settlers to move to Mexican California, where he made his living in fur trapping.
The Nicoleño language is an extinct language formerly spoken on San Nicolas Island by the Nicoleño.It went extinct with Juana Maria's death in 1853. Its extant remnants consist only of four words and two songs attributed to her.
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Maria Bernarda died August 23, 1821, and was buried in the Plaza church. 4. Private Francisco Salvador de Lugo, born about 1740, at San Felipe y Santiago de Sinaloa, New Navarre, New Spain. He married Juana Maria Rita Martinez, born about 1745, at San Felipe y Santiago de Sinaloa. She was the daughter of Jose Maria Martínez and Maria Josefa ...