Karkin people

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Traditional tribal religion

The Karkin people (also called Los Carquines in Spanish) are one of eight Ohlone peoples, indigenous peoples of California.

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History

The Karkin people have historically lived in the Carquinez Strait region in the northeast portion of the San Francisco Bay estuary. [1] They spoke the Karkin language, the only documentation of which is a single vocabulary obtained by linguist-missionary Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta at Mission Dolores in 1821 [2] from Karkin speaker Mariano Antonio Sagnegse. [3] According to de la Cuesta, karkin means 'to trade.' [4] [5] Although meager, the records of Karkin show that it constituted a distinct branch of Costanoan/Ohlone, strikingly different from the neighboring Chochenyo and other Ohlone languages spoken farther south and across the bay. [4] It is believed that there were about 200 Karkin speakers before colonization. [6]

Starting in 1787, some Karkin people began moving to Mission Dolores in present-day San Francisco. [7] In 1804 and 1807, Karkins resisted attempts by Mission Indians to recapture fugitive Indians who had escaped the mission. [8] The last Karkins moved to the mission between 1809 and 1810. [9] At the end of 1817, 49 Karkins were living at Mission Dolores. [10] By the end of 1823, 35 Karkin people lived at Mission Dolores, Mission San Francisco Solano, and Mission San Jose, seven of whom had been born in the missions. [11]

In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the Ohlone extinct, which directly led to its losing federal recognition and land rights. [12]

The Confederated Villages of Lisjan is a tribe made up of Karkin and six other neighboring indigenous groups. [13]

Corrina Gould is a Karkin and Chochenyo activist who co-founded Indian People Organizing for Change and the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, [14] and is the spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan. [13]

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Notes

  1. Milliken 1995:238
  2. Milliken 2008:6
  3. Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:20
  4. 1 2 Beeler 1961
  5. Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:21
  6. Levy 1978, cited in Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  7. Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:110
  8. Milliken 1995:180-182, 204-206, cited in Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:110
  9. Milliken 1995:209-211, cited in Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:110
  10. Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:119
  11. Milliken, Shoup, and Ortiz 2009:122
  12. 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.
  13. 1 2 "Tribal History". Confederated Villages of Lisjan. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  14. NoiseCat, Julian Brave (2018-03-22). "'It's About Taking Back What's Ours': Native Women Reclaim Land, Plot By Plot". HuffPost. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 August 2021.

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