Kitanemuk
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| 50 (2000) |
The Kitanemuk are an
Tejon Indian Tribe of California
.
Language
The Kitanemuk traditionally spoke the
Harrington's notes.[2]
Population
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially.
Alfred L. Kroeber
(1925:883) proposed a population of 1,770 for the Kitanemuk, together with the Serrano and Tataviam, as 3,500. Thomas C. Blackburn and Lowell John Bean (1978:564) estimated the Kitanemuk alone as 500-1,000.
The combined population of the Kitanemuk, Serrano, and Tataviam in 1910 had fallen to only 150 persons, according to Kroeber.
History
The Kitanemuk were first contacted by the
Franciscan missionary-explorer Francisco Garcés in 1769.[1] Some Kitanemuk were recruited and relocated for the Spanish missions of Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in the San Gabriel Valley, and perhaps Mission San Buenaventura at the coast in Ventura County. Therefore, they are sometimes grouped with the Mission Indians
.
In 1840, a
Tule River Reservation,[1] located in Tulare County, California
.
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