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"In this section of Native American Indian Facts you will find information about the American Indian tribes that currently or that have inhabited California. There are more Indians in California than any other state in the U.S. Over 100 tribes have inhabited California or parts of California."

"In this section of California America Indian Facts we provide information on the Hupa Indians tribe (also spelled Hoopa).This Native American Indian tribe is from Northwestern California. "

"The Native American Indians who once inhabited the Napa Valley region in Northern California are called the Wappo Indians."

"The Mojave Indians, also known as "Mohave", are a tribe of Native American Indians from the Southwest region of the United States. This includes present-day Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and California. "

"The Native American tribe who has called Northern California home for centuries are called the Yurok Indians. "

Articles about California Indians

A website created by Mrs. Mckelvey's 4th graders about California Indians.

Picture of California Native Indians by Louis Chloris This article contains interesting facts, pictures and information about the life of the Pomo Native American Indian Tribe of the California cultural group. The Pomo Tribe Summary and Definition: The Pomo tribe were a California tribe of Native American Indians who were hunter gatherers and fishers.

"The Far West was a land of great diversity. Death Valley and Mount Whitney are the highest and lowest points in the United States. They are within sight of each other. Tribes living in what would become California were as different as their landscape."

"The Chumash Indian homeland lies along the coast of California, between Malibu and Paso Robles, as well as on the Northern Channel Islands. Before the Mission Period, the Chumash lived in 150 independent villages with a total population of about 18,000 people. In different parts of the region, people spoke different but related languages. "

"The Pomo people are a linguistic branch of Native American people of Northern California. Their historic territory was on the Pacific Coast between Cleone and Duncans Point, and inland to Clear Lake."

"Maidu, North American Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a territory extending eastward from the Sacramento River to the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains and centring chiefly in the drainage of the Feather and American rivers in California, U.S."

"While there were many different Indians in California at the time of the missions; the Chumash were the most widespread. They numbered in the tens of thousands and their territory spread from present-day Malibu to present-day southern Monterey County. To the east they extended all the way to the Carrizo Plain of present-day Kern County. To the west, the Chumash territory spread to the coast and further, out to the Channel Islands, west of today's Santa Barbara. Their land comprised 7,000+ square miles. [Note: The large territory the Chumash occupied was largely defined by the Spanish. In fact, that territory encompassed approximately six different, but similar, groups with six different language.]"

"This conflict resulted from forces common to all Indian wars: the encroachment of whites upon traditional Indian land until the aboriginal way of life was threatened with extinction."

American Indian languages American Indian cultures American Indian arts Native American Facts For Kids was written for young people learning about the Achumawi tribe for school or home-schooling reports.

"In the 1800s, Yurok Indians resided on the Pacific coast in California's northwest corner, near the mouth of the Klamath River. Yuroks depended on fishing to supply food for the tribe. Tools were fashioned from natural resources procured from the surrounding environment, including tree bark, animal bone, sinew and antlers, shells, flint and obsidian rock. "

Image of Mohave American Indians.

"Miwok Indian Baskets"

" "Pomo" and "Pomoan" refer to a family of seven California Indian languages and to their speakers. The seven are often differentiated by placing a direction before the word Pomo: Southwestern Pomo, Southern Pomo, Central Pomo, Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, and Southeastern Pomo. "