Costanoan
English
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish Costeños (“coastal people”). The Spanish explorers and Missionaries to Northern California called the native people of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas the Costeños as early as 1769.
Noun
editCostanoan (plural Costanoans)
- A member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
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editProper noun
editCostanoan
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editReferences
edit- Teixeira, Lauren. The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1997. →ISBN.