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Many places throughout the U.S. state of California take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages.
A map of California tribal groups and languages at the time of European contact. The Indigenous peoples of California are the Indigenous inhabitants who have previously lived or currently live within the current boundaries of California before and after the arrival of Europeans.
Evidence of human occupation of California dates from at least 19,000 years ago. [22] Archeological sites with dates that support human settlement in period 12,000–7,000 ybp are: Borax Lake , the Cross Creek Site, Santa Barbara Channel Islands , Santa Barbara Coast's Sudden Flats, and the Scotts Valley site, CA-SCR-177 .
In 1851, at the same time that the United States was setting up the Public Land Commission as required by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with the Republic of Mexico to verify the legality of the Ranchos of California Land Grants given California citizens prior to 1846, the government also set up a commission with military support that ...
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
Californian Native American archeological, historical, sacred, and former populated places in California. See also: Indigenous peoples of California , and Category: Native American history of California .
Pages in category "Former settlements in Humboldt County, California" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.