Place, in time

Who lived in California before the mission period?

4 sourcesDrawn from Satya’s sourced local record.

The question's own words (“who lived here”) stand in for “California” in the query itself — the map selection below IS California, so this asks the same thing the selection already answers. Satya's record here names specific peoples (Kumeyaay, Chumash, Coast Miwok, and Ohlone tribelets including the Yelamu and Puichon), not a general claim about “the Americas.”

Yelamu (Ramaytush Ohlone) (1526): Autonomous villages and bands Kumeyaay Nation (1526): Autonomous villages and bands Chumash people (1526): Autonomous villages and bands Coast Miwok (1526): Autonomous villages and bands

What the record shows

• Yelamu (Ramaytush Ohlone) (1526)polity
  Autonomous villages and bands
• Kumeyaay Nation (1526)polity
  Autonomous villages and bands
• Chumash people (1526)polity
  Autonomous villages and bands
• Coast Miwok (1526)polity
  Autonomous villages and bands
• Puichon (Ohlone) (1526)polity
  Autonomous villages and bands
• Tongva / Kizh (Gabrieleño) (1526)polity
  Autonomous villages and bands

Sources

• Muwekma Ohlone Tribe — official tribal history and federal-recognition-process account — the Tribe's own primary account of its history and recognition process — the appropriate primary source for this content per Native Land Digital's consultation-first pattern (already adopted); corroborated independently by the Federal Register citation below
• Barona Band of Mission Indians (Kumeyaay) — tribal history (official) — tribal-government account: more than 200 years of hardship began with the 1769 mission and presidio · unverified
• Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians — official tribal government website — the only federally recognized Chumash tribal government's own account of its people and history · unverified
• Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria — official tribal government website — federally recognized Coast Miwok/Southern Pomo tribal government's own account; restored to federal recognition 2000 after a 1997 congressional study · unverified

Local selection uses recorded points and capitals; it does not claim that a capital point proves territorial control of every nearby coordinate.

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