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Prior to contact with Europeans, the California region contained the highest Native American population density north of what is now Mexico. [19]: 112 Because of the temperate climate and easy access to food sources, approximately one-third of all Native Americans in the United States were living in the area of California. [23]
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.
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.
In 1896 the Bureau of American Ethnology report on major native American Indian interactions with the United States Government was the first time the treaties were made public. The report, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (book) , compiled by Charles C. Royce, includes the 18 lost treaties between the state's tribes and a map of the ...
California tribes (historical & contemporary) are in: Category: Native American tribes in California. Ongoing topics (contemporary or not only historical) are in: Category: Indigenous peoples of California topics. Labeled map (external link): Map of Native Tribes, Groups, Language Families, and Dialects of California region in 1770.
Historian and author Benjamin Madley observes that between 1845 and 1870, California’s Native American population “plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. By 1880 census takers recorded just ...