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| | Ohlone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Ohlone people, also known as the Costanoan and the Muwekma, are the indigenous people of Northern California who have lived in the regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay and spanning south into the Salinas Valley since 500 AD. |
 | | It is a member of the Penutian language group, and the Utian linguistic subgroup and is comprised of eight sub-languages, or dialects according to Milliken: Awaswas, Chalon, Chocheño, Karkin, Mutsun, Ramaytush, Rumsen, and Tamyen. |
 | | "It is true the Costanoan and Salinan stocks, who participate in the Kuksu cult and live in the same transverse belt of California as the Miwok, seem also to lean in their mythology toward the Yokuts more than to the Sacramento Valley tribes. |
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