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.
- Achomawi, Achumawi, Pit River tribe, northeastern California
- Atsugewi, northeastern California
- Ahwahnechee, eastern-central California
- Cahuilla, southern California
- Chumash, coastal southern California
- Chilula, northwestern California
- Chimariko, extinct, northwestern California
- Coso, southeastern California
- Cupeño, southern California
- Eel River Athapaskan peoples
- Esselen, west-central California
- Hupa, northwestern California
- Juaneño, Acjachemem, southwestern California
- Karok, northwestern California
- Kato, Cahto, northwestern California
- Kawaiisu, southern-central California
- Kitanemuk, southern-central California
- Kizh, southern California
- Konkow, northern-central California
- Kucadikadi, eastern-central California
- Kumeyaay, Diegueño, Kumiai, southern California
- Cuyamaca complex, late Holocene precolumbian culture
- Ipai, southwestern California
- Jamul, southwestern California
- Tipai, southwestern California and northwestern Mexico
- La Jolla complex, southern California, ca. 6050—1000 BCE
- Luiseño, southwestern California
- Maidu, northeastern California
- Konkow, northern California
- Mechoopda, northern California
- Nisenan, Southern Maidu, eastern-central California
- Miwok, Me-wuk, central California
- Coast Miwok, west-central California
- Lake Miwok, west-central California
- Saklan, west-central California
- Valley and Sierra Miwok, eastern-central California
- Mohave, southeastern California
- Monache, Western Mono, central California
- Mono, eastern-central California
- Nomlaki, northwestern California
- Ohlone, Costanoan, west-central California
- Patayan, southern California
- Patwin, central California
- Suisun, Southern Patwin, central California
- Pauma Complex, southern California, ca. 6050—1000 BCE
- Pomo, northwestern and central-western California
- Salinan, coastal central California
- Serrano, southern California
- Shasta northwestern California
- Tataviam, Allilik (Fernandeño), southern California
- Timbisha, southeastern California
- Tolowa, northwestern California
- Tubatulabal, south-central California
- Bankalachi, on west slopes of the Greenhorn Mountains.
- Palagewan, on the Kern River above its confluence with the South Fork of the Kern River.
- Tübatulabal, on the lower reaches of South Fork of the Kern River.
- Wappo, north-central California
- Washoe, northeastern California
- Whilkut, northwestern California
- Wintu, northwestern California
- Wiyot, northwestern California
- Yana, northern-central California
- Yokuts, central and southern California
- Chukchansi, Foothill Yokuts, central California
- Northern Valley Yokuts, central California
- Tachi tribe, Southern Valley Yokuts, south-central California
- Yuki, Ukomno'm, northwestern California
- Huchnom, northwestern California
- Yurok, northwestern California
References
- ^ Heizer, Robert F., volume editor (1978). Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 8: California. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-0-16-004574-5 page ix
- Heizer page 205-7
- Heizer page 190
- Heizer page 593
- "The Saclan Indians". Historic Moraga California. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- Heizer page 769
- Beebe, Rose Marie; Senkewicz, Robert M. (2001). Lands of promise and despair : chronicles of early California, 1535-1846. Santa Clara, CA : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley, CA : Heyday Books. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-890771-48-5. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- Heizer page 249
- Huchnom Bibliography, from California Indian Library Collections Project
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