Tehachapi Area Indians
Tehachapi Area Indians - Vredenburgh.org
When they came to Tehachapi they met a tribe of savages. They fought them, but the savages won the battle and killed them all. Then the god became angry at the ...
The Kawaiisu Culture - California State Parks
The homeland, or core area, of the Kawaiisu encompassed a large portion of the Piute, Scodie and Tehachapi Mountains. Tomo-Kahni is only one of numerous village ...
Nuwä – First People of the Tehachapi Mountains
This word, like many tribal identity terms, means "The People." They are part of the widespread and successful Paiute family of associated ...
The Kawaiisu Nation are a tribe of indigenous people of California in the United States. The Kawaiisu Nation is the only treatied tribe in California, ...
Kawaiisu Indians - Mojave Desert
Migrating from the Great Basin, they had made the Tehachapi area their home for two to three thousand years. They were a peaceful, gentle people with a ...
There's Something About the Kawaiisu People
The Kawaiisu are a Native California ethnic group, originating from Southern California and more precisely from Tehachapi Valley and across the Tehachapi Pass.
Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park preserves native sites | History-culture
Located in Sand Canyon, about 10 miles east of Tehachapi, the site of Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park was long used as a winter gathering area for small family ...
People of the Mountains - The Historical Marker Database
The domed huts are called kahni, which means house in the Kawaiisu or Nüwa language. Erected 2004 by Tehachapi Heritage League & Tehachapi Main Street. (Marker ...
KAWAIISU - Califa - Social Studies Fact Cards
They have also been known as the Tehachapi or Caliente Indians. HOUSES. During the winter, the people lived in circular houses made from poles and brush. A ...
The first local people, the Kawaiisu, or the Nuwa (The People), as they called themselves, were peaceful Native Americans and welcomed the first ...
Kawaiisu Historical Preserve - Bear Valley Springs Association
The Kawaiisu people, or Nüwa, were the first human residents of Bear Valley — arriving perhaps several thousand years ago — and their descendants continue to ...
Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park - California State Parks
Migrating from the Great Basin, they had made the Tehachapi area their home for two to three thousand years. They were a peaceful, gentle people with a ...
Early Explorers in the Tehachapi Area Historical Marker
The first non-Indian man known to visit the local Indians in the Tehachapi area was Father Francisco Garces in 1776. (A historical marker located in ...
Tehachapi, California - Wikipedia
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10 square miles (26 km2) and a population of 14,414. The Tehachapi area is known for ...
History of Tehichipa, Old Town and Tehachapi, Calif. | News
The area is known for the “Tehachapi Loop” which is a popular railfan site and the “Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm”; 10 miles west of Tehachapi is ...
Surrounded by mountains: Peaks of the Tehachapi area
How to see it: If you're in the Tehachapi Valley, turn until you're facing west, and you're looking right at Black Mountain. The Indian face is ...
Tehachapi California History - Vredenburgh.org
Who Killed Thomas Godwin. By Dave Dyas 2010. Indians of the Tehachapi Area · The Supernatural World of the Kawaiisu by Maurice Zigmond (1977) (html); The ...
TEHACHAPI REGION - Far Western Ethno Wiki
Kawaiisu groups traveled to the east into the Mojave Desert in the spring to hunt antelopes in areas like the southern Panamint Valley, where ...
Nuooah Nature Trail | Kern County, CA
The earliest human inhabitants of the Tehachapi Mountain region were a native American Indian tribe known as Nuooah or The People. They harvested great ...
Native American Cultural Experiences at California's State Parks ...
A Shoshonean tribe, the Kawaiisu lived in the Tehachapi area for as long as 3,000 years after migrating from the Great Basin. They were known for their ...