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Mojave Desert Indians
California Indian Languages
The Cultural Heritage of California begins no less than 12,000 years ago when the first of several waves of people arrived and settled here. California’s prehistoric population one of the largest and most diverse in the Western hemisphere is exhibited by the no fewer than the sixty-four distinct languages they spoke, more than any other comparable area in the world outside of New Guinea.
Desert Indian LanguagesThe languages of the Indians in the Mojave Desert are rooted in two basic groups, that of the Uto-Aztecan and Hokan Tribes.Uto-Aztecan Tribes
Hokan Tribes
* Moratto, Michael, California Archaeology, Academic Press, Inc., 1984 Source - State of California |
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