The Kawaiisu (pronounced: ″ka-wai-ah-soo″[needs IPA]) are a Native Californian ethnic group in the United States who live in the Tehachapi Valley and to the north across the Tehachapi Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada, toward Lake Isabella and Walker Pass. Historically, the Kawaiisu also traveled eastward on food-gathering trips to areas in the northern Mojave Desert, to the north and northeast of the Antelope Valley, Searles Valley, as far east as the Panamint Valley, the Panamint Mountains, and the western edge of Death Valley. Today, some Kawaiisu people are enrolled in the Tule River Indian Tribe.[2]
^"2010 Census" (PDF). census.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-09.
^ abCalifornia Indians and Their Reservations: Kawaiisu Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine San Diego State University Library and Information Access. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
The Kawaiisu (pronounced: ″ka-wai-ah-soo″[needs IPA]) are a Native Californian ethnic group in the United States who live in the Tehachapi Valley and to...
The Kawaiisu language is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Kawaiisu people of California. Kawaiisu is a member of the Southern Numic division of the...
The Tehachapi Mountains (/təˈhætʃəpi/; Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in...
Central Numic languages and the two Western Numic languages it is /nɨmɨ/. In Kawaiisu it is /nɨwɨ/ and in Colorado River /nɨwɨ/, /nɨŋwɨ/ and /nuu/. These languages...
Kawaiisu traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Kawaiisu people of the Tehachapi Mountains, southern...
as among the Great Basin Indians. Among others they are cousins of the Kawaiisu. The most comprehensive collection of Chemehuevi history, culture and mythology...
"Desert Kawaiisu", the adjoining areas to the north were composed of almost equal numbers of Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone and "Desert Kawaiisu" (Julian...
California Karok, northwestern California Kato, Cahto, northwestern California Kawaiisu, southern-central California Kitanemuk, southern-central California Kizh...
ground-water resource." The first peoples of the Antelope Valley include the Kawaiisu, [unreliable source?] Kitanemuk, Serrano, and Tataviam. Europeans first...
mush and applying it to infections as a poultice. The Cahuilla, Ohlone, Kawaiisu, and Mahuna used the gelatinous seeds to cleanse out foreign matter in...
worlds. thunderbirds. Inipi — (Southern California) Mostly known from the Kawaiisu people, this is the shapeshifting ghost of a human. It may take virtually...
with the Mono tribe and Sierra Miwok tribe on the western side, and the Kawaiisu and Tübatulabal tribes in the southern Sierra. Today, some historic intertribal...
Tehachapi Pass (Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") is a mountain pass crossing the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California. Traditionally...
Army and American settlers against the Mono people and their Shoshone and Kawaiisu allies in the Owens Valley of California and the southwestern Nevada border...
cultures of the inhabitants. Fremont culture (400 CE–1300 CE), Utah: 161 Kawaiisu, southern inland California Timbisha or Panamint or Koso, southeastern...
Americans used the plant medicinally: Zigmond (1981, p. 68) reports that the Kawaiisu people used an infusion of the leaves to relieve swellings or rheumatism...
Languages Colorado River Numic (ISO 639-3, ute), English Religion Indigenous Religion, Christianity Related ethnic groups Utes, Chemehuevis, Kawaiisu...
societies. The Chippewa and Potawatomi used the root as medicine; the Kawaiisu pounded and ate the seeds dry, or used the plant as a tool to rub the skin...
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