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Saclan
The Saklan are a tribe of the Indigenous peoples of California, Native American Bay Miwok people, Miwok community, based just south of San Pablo Bay, San Pablo and Suisun Bays, in Contra Costa County, California. Their historical tribal lands ranged from Moraga, California, Moraga, to San Leandro Creek, to Lafayette, California, Lafayette. History The Saklan were historically called the Sacalanes, based on historical documentation related to Spanish contact. They are mentioned under that name, and related spellings, in the records for Mission Dolores between 1794 and 1821. They were first called the Saklan, in 1797. In 1816 they were mentioned again, as the Sacalanes, in the reports of the first Otto von Kotzebue, Kotzebue expedition in 1816. They inhabited the interior valleys of today's East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, with period maps showing permanent and temporary settlements throughout the Lafayette Creek (California), Lafayette Creek, Las Trampas Creek and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Miwok People
The Bay Miwok are a cultural and linguistic group of Miwok, a Native American people in Northern California who live in Contra Costa County. They joined the Franciscan mission system during the early nineteenth century, suffered a devastating population decline, and lost their language as they intermarried with other native California ethnic groups and learned the Spanish language. The Bay Miwok were not recognized by modern anthropologists or linguists until the mid-twentieth century. In fact, Alfred L. Kroeber, father of California anthropology, who knew of one of their constituent local groups, the Saklan (Saclan), from nineteenth-century manuscript sources, presumed that they spoke an Ohlone ( Costanoan) language. In 1955 linguist Madison Beeler recognized an 1821 vocabulary taken from a Saclan man at Mission San Francisco as representative of a Miwok language. The language was named "Bay Miwok" and its territorial extent was rediscovered during the 1960s (see ''Landhold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |