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Kitanemuk, southern-central California [1] Kizh, southern California [1] Konkow, northern-central California [1] Kucadikadi, eastern-central California; Kumeyaay, Diegueño, Kumiai, southern California Cuyamaca complex, late Holocene precolumbian culture; Ipai, southwestern California [1] Jamul, southwestern California [4] Tipai, southwestern ...
Native American culture in California was also noted for its rock art, especially among the Chumash of southern California. [103] The rock art, or pictographs were brightly colored paintings of humans, animals and abstract designs, and were thought to have had religious significance.
Southern California tribal territories. Tongva territories border those of numerous other tribes in the region. The historical Tongva lands made up what is now called "the coastal region of Los Angeles County, the northwest portion of Orange County and off-lying islands."
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.
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.
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 ...