Native American people of the Santa Clara Valley in Northern California
Ethnic group
Tamien
Map of historical Tamyen territory
Regions with significant populations
Santa Clara Valley, California
Languages
Tamyen language
The Tamien people (also spelled as Tamyen, Thamien) are one of eight linguistic divisions of the Ohlone (Costanoan) people groups of Native Americans who live in Northern California.[1] The Tamien traditionally lived throughout the Santa Clara Valley.[2] The use of the name Tamien is on record as early as 1777, it comes from the Ohlone name for the location of the first Mission Santa Clara (Mission Santa Clara de Tamine) on the Guadalupe River. Father Pena mentioned in a letter to Junipero Serra that the area around the mission was called Thamien by the native people.[3][4] The missionary fathers erected the mission on January 17, 1777, at the native village of So-co-is-u-ka.[5]
In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the Ohlone extinct, which directly led to the tribe losing federal recognition and land rights.[6]
Lope Inigo, a Tamien man who lived at Mission Santa Clara de Asís[7]Mission Santa Clara de Asís (1849; oil on canvas)
^"Tamyen." Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, California Language Archive, 2019, https://cla.berkeley.edu/languages/tamyen.php.
^"Pre-History." San Jose History, https://www.sanjosehistory.org/pre-history/
^Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (map of villages, page 465)
^Hylkema, Mark. Archaeological Investigations at the Third Location of Mission Santa Clara De Assis: The Murguia Mission 1781-1818, 1995. Caltrans Report (CA-SCL-30/H) (page 20)
^"Santa Clara". California Office of Historic Preservation, 2021, https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21522.
^Brown, Patricia Leigh (2022-12-11). "Indigenous Founders of a Museum Cafe Put Repatriation on the Menu". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
^Chapman, Robin (2018-10-15). Historic Bay Area Visionaries. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439665503.
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