Costanoan


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Noun 1. Costanoan - a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay
Penutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
2. Costanoan - a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan
Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
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It belongs to the Costanoan language family, which, with the family of Miwokan languages, forms the Utian language family.
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Caption: A member of the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe of the Ohlone Nation sings while commemorating Founder's Day at the Carmel Mission in California June 28.
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Miranda, an enrolled member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, has written two books of poetry and teaches English at Washington and Lee University.
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Author Deborah Miranda tells of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family history in the course of relating stories about California Indians through oral histories, newspaper reports, and anthropological recordings.
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Camp Via West (formally known as Camp Costanoan) is a nonprofit camp that has served individuals with special needs and disabilities since 1945.
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The second impetus to this paper was student feedback regarding a service-learning course that initiated a new partnership between Pitzer College, where I teach, and the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe of the Ohlone people, hereafter referred to as the Ohlone.
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We will take care of it and guard it, in the spirit of the Costanoan Indians.
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Louise Miranda Ramirez, who chairs the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, has been on-site overseeing the excavation.
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