Presently Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation represents over 600 enrolled. tribal members of Esselen, Carmeleno, Monterey Band, Rumsen, Chalon, Soledad Mission, San Carlos Mission (Carmel) and/or Costanoan Mission. Indian descent from at least 19 villages from a contiguous region. surrounding Monterey Bay.

214 Ohlone/Costanoan Indians of the San Francisco Peninsula and their Neighbors, Yesterday and Today were… The truth will set you free. We can talk about the Holocaust. We can talk about all the things that happened other places, but you can’t talk about

The Ohlone Indians, named Costanoan by early Spanish colonists, are a linguistic family who lived on the coast of central California. They originally lived in an area stretching from the San Francisco Bay southward to the lower Salinas Valley. They traditionally lived in more than 50 independently organized villages and did not view themselves ...

We Thank David L. Shaul, Linguist, for his work and dedication in working with Tribal Chairwoman, Louise J. Miranda Ramirez to return our language. We are currently working on a dictionary, translating stories and writing new stories for our people.

Costanoan The term Costanoan derives from the Spanish costaños, which means “coastal people”; it is a linguistic term used to designate a particular “language family.” The Costanoan language family consists of six distinct languages: Karkin, Awaswas, Mutsun, Rumsen, Chalon, and the San Francisco Bay language that contains three dialects spoken in the San Francisco …

Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation challenges the traditional anthro-pological position that a strict linguistic, cultural, and political division existed historically between "Esselen" and "Rumsen" people.7 Today, > some members of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen ...

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Welcome to the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribes' official website. Thank you for visiting, we hope by the time you leave this site you will have gained knowledge of our people and our customs, you will have the information you need about ongoing projects and workshops, but most important to us, you will learn about the past, the present and the ...