Native Californian

English

Native Californian (plural Native Californians)

An indigenous person of California; a member of one of the indigenous tribes historically associated with California.
- 1894, Cephas Little Bard, "A Contribution to the history of medicine in Southern California," (speech delivered August 8, 1894):
  Our soil and climate are peculiarly adapted to the culture of what has contributed so much to the comfort and welfare of the Native Californian.
- 2005, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, publ. Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 47:
  The effete finger-twisting techniques of modern survival books and classes are tedious and slow and assume that we are all too citified to learn what every Native Californian knew well: the hand rolling of cordage on the thigh.

Native Californian (comparative more Native Californian, superlative most Native Californian)

Of or relating to the Native Californians.
- 1931, Lawrence E. Metcalf, Values Education, National Council for the Social Studies, pg. 215:
  I have devoted so much space to emphasizing religious and social behavior because Native Californian civilization must be viewed as a 15000-year effort to perfect the inter-human and human-creation relationships.
- 2006, Kent G. Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 137:
  It is not clear whether Native Californian women who established joint residences with Native Alaskan, Creole, or Russian men were drafted into mandatory service for the Company.