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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.
Los Angeles has the United States' largest Central American community, as well as the largest Mexican American community since the 1910s and 1920s. In Mariposa County, there is a very small community of Californios or Spanish American people as they identify themselves, that dates back before the U.S. annexation of California.
The following is a list of California cities, towns, and census-designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2010 Census. Note: Although Hispanics or Latinos form 50% or more of the population, they are still outnumbered by non Hispanics in terms of population.
Throughout the country, there are 179 county-equivalents where over 50% of the population are either Hispanic or Latino. 78 of these were Puerto Rican municipalities, and 61 more were counties in Texas. Moreover, there were 13 counties in New Mexico and 11 counties in California with Hispanic majorities.
At the time of the establishment of the first Spanish Mission in 1769, the most widely accepted estimates say that California's indigenous population was around 340,000 people and possibly more. The indigenous peoples of California were extremely diverse and made up of ten different linguistic families with at least 78 distinct languages.
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.
California is stripping a derogatory term for Indigenous women from dozens of place names across 15 counties, ... California’s Native American communities, which make up 1.7% of the state’s ...
Many of these Indigenous Mexican-Americans hail from the indigenous people of Oaxaca, with California being home to between 100,000 and 150,000 indigenous Oaxacans. 50,000 are estimated to be Mixtec, an indigenous people from the La Mixteca region of Western Oaxaca and nearby portions of Puebla and Guerrero. [3]