Esselen
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: California
Not only were the Esselen one of the smallest of the California Indian tribes, they were also probably the first to disappear ethnographically. Because no identifiable Esselen could be located by anthropologists even in the nineteenth century, nobody knows what name they may have had for themselves. “Esselen” or variant spellings appeared in Spanish records referring to a village in the area that is now modern Monterey County, and scholars adopted it for the tribe in the absence of any other information.
The Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno entered Monterey Bay in 1602...
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