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The Salinan are a Native American tribe whose ancestral territory is in the southern Salinas Valley and the Santa Lucia Range in the Central Coast of California. Today, the Salinan governments are now working toward federal tribal recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Map of Salinan placenames, dialects, and tribelets
The Salinan people — a historic and present day tribe of indigenous peoples of California. A tribe affected by the Spanish and Mexican California Mission Indians system in Alta California . Their pre-contact homelands were within present day Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County .
Salinan Tribe of Monterey & San Luis Obispo Counties. [32] Letter of Intent to Petition 11/13/1993. [26] [27] [30] San Fernando Band of Mission Indians (formerly Ish Panesh United Band of Indians; formerly Oakbrook Chumash People a.k.a. Ish Panesh Band of Mission Indians, Oakbrook Park Chumash). [32] Letter of Intent to Petition 05/25/1995. [26 ...
Salinan is a language isolate.It may be a part of the Hokan family. Edward Sapir included it in a subfamily of Hokan, along with Chumash and Seri. [2] This hypothetical classification (which has had many skeptics) found its way into several encyclopedias and presentations of language families before much supporting evidence for this subfamily had been presented, but is currently fairly well ...
Before colonization, the valley was inhabited by indigenous Salinans who lived by hunting and gathering and spoke the Salinan language.The Salinan people are believed to have lived south of Junipero Serra Peak, perhaps ranging from Slates Hot Springs on the coast to Soledad in the Salinas Valley and into northern San Luis Obispo County.
Salinan traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Salinan people of the central California coast. Salinan oral literature, as documented primarily by J. Alden Mason , shows its closest links with that of other central California groups, such as the Yokuts .(
The Salinan and Chumash tribes consider Morro Rock to be a sacred site. The Salinan name for Morro Rock is Le'samo and the Chumash name is Lisamu. [10]The Chumash had an important nearby prehistoric settlement at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon (6500-2000 B.C.E.), and the village was near the mouth of Morro Creek, at the current site of Morro Bay High School.
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