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  2. List of nomadic peoples - Wikipedia

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    Most, or all, of the following ethnonyms probably do not correspond to one community; many are locally or regionally used (sometimes as occupational names), others are used only by group members, and still others are used pejoratively only by outsiders. Most peripatetic nomads have traditions that they originate from South Asia.

  3. Modoc people - Wikipedia

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    Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. ISSN 0068-6441. OCLC 3714154. Philip, Neil (2006). The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations. New York, New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-618-15941-3. OCLC 62330691. Ruby, Robert H.; Brown, John A. (1981). Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History. The Civilization ...

  4. Miwok - Wikipedia

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    History professors from California estimate the total Miwok population was 25,000 people, prior to 1769. The 1910 Census reported only 671 Miwok total, and the 1930 Census, 491. See history of each Miwok group for more information. [18] Today there are about 3,500 Miwok in total. [1]

  5. Romani Americans - Wikipedia

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    Romani Americans today still migrate across the United States from the Midwest to Nevada, California, Texas, and elsewhere to live close to family and friends or for jobs. Some of the Roma who had once lived in Delay and then in the Dearborn area in Michigan moved to Las Vegas Valley to work or retire.

  6. Plains and Sierra Miwok - Wikipedia

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    Alfred L. Kroeber estimated there to be 9,000 Plains and Sierra Miwok combined in 1770, but this is an arguably low estimate. [18] Richard Levy estimated there were 17,800. [ 19 ] In 1848 their population was estimated at 6,000, in 1852 at 4,500, in 1880 at 100, and in 1910 the population was estimated at 670.

  7. Chumash people - Wikipedia

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    This land ultimately became the only Chumash reservation, although Chumash individuals and families also continued to live throughout their former territory in southern California. Today, the Santa Ynez band lives at and near Santa Ynez. The Chumash population was between roughly 10,000 and 18,000 in the late 18th century.

  8. Cahuilla - Wikipedia

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    Today, there are nine Southern California reservations that are acknowledged homes to bands of Cahuilla. These are in Imperial, Riverside, and San Diego Counties and are the territory of federally recognized tribes. John Tortes "Chief" Meyers was a catcher in major league baseball. The Cahuilla bands (sometimes called "villages") are:

  9. Jeannine Davis-Kimball - Wikipedia

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    Turkestan today, 1994; Miwok Indians, 1994; Kurgans on the left bank of the Ilek : excavatins at Pokrovka 1990-1992, 1995; Nomads of the Eurasian steppes in the early iron age, 1995; Kurgans, ritual sites, and settlements : Eurasian Bronze and Iron Age, 2000; Warrior women : an archaeologist's search for history's hidden heroines, 2003