The Ohlone, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish costeño meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast. When Spanish explorers and missionaries … 查看更多內容

British ethnologist Robert Gordon Latham originally used the term "Costanoan" to refer to the linguistically similar but ethnically diverse Native American tribes in the San … 查看更多內容

Pre-Columbian era
The predominant theory regarding the settlement of the Americas date the original migrations from Asia to around 20,000 years ago across the Bering Strait land bridge, but one anthropologist, Otto von Sadovszky, … 查看更多內容

Linguists identified eight regional, linguistic divisions or subgroups of the Ohlone, listed below from north to south:
• Karkin (also called Carquin): The Karkin resided on the south side of the Carquinez Strait. The name of the Carquinez Strait derives from … 查看更多內容

Pre-Contact Lifestyle
The Ohlone inhabited fixed village locations, moving temporarily to gather seasonal … 查看更多內容

Sacred sites and importance
The arrival of the Spanish in the 1776 decelerated the culture, sovereignty, religion, and … 查看更多內容

Costanoan is an externally applied name (exonym). The Spanish explorers and settlers referred to the native groups of this region collectively as the Costeños (the "coastal … 查看更多內容