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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.
Nipomo (/ n ə ˈ p oʊ m oʊ /; Chumash: Nipumuʔ) [4] is an unincorporated town in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 16,714 for the 2010 census [5] and grew to 18,176 for the 2020 census. [6] For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Nipomo as a census-designated place (CDP).
The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south to Mt Pinos in the east.
Tachi tribe, Southern Valley Yokuts, south-central California [1] Yuki, Ukomno'm, northwestern California [1] Huchnom, northwestern California [8] [9]
States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A Native American tribe has reclaimed a small part of ancestral lands on California’s scenic Big Sur coast that were lost to Spanish colonial settlement nearly 250 years ...
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
Flags of Wisconsin tribes in the Wisconsin state capitol. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [4] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.