Tamyen people

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The Tamyen people are an Ohlone Native American group indigenous to the Santa Clara Valley region of California, traditionally speaking the Tamyen language and maintaining distinct cultural and spiritual practices tied to the local landscape.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tamyen people canonical 4

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
Ohlone people
associatedWithMission Mission Santa Clara de Asís
country United States
cultureArea California cultural area
ethnicGroupOf Santa Clara Valley
hasAlternativeName Tamien people
Tamyen Ohlone
Thamien people
historicallyAffectedBy Spanish colonization of California
mission system in Alta California
historicalPopulationCenter Santa Clara Valley
indigenousTo California
San Francisco Bay Area
Santa Clara Valley
languageFamily Ohlone languages
Utian languages
languageRevitalizationEfforts community-based programs
languageStatus moribund
partOf Ohlone
presentIn Alameda County
San Mateo County
Santa Clara County
region South Bay
relatedEthnicGroup Awaswas people
Chochenyo people
Muwekma Ohlone
Ramaytush people
Rumsen people
spiritualPracticesTiedTo local landscape
oak woodlands
watersheds
state California
subgroupOf Ohlone
subjectTo forced missionization
population decline after European contact
traditionalFood acorns
seeds
shellfish
traditionalHousing thatched tule structures
traditionalLanguage Tamyen language
traditionalReligion Ohlone traditional religion
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
traditionalTerritoryIncludes Coyote Creek watershed
Guadalupe River watershed
linked to: Guadalupe River

present-day San Jose, California
southern San Francisco Bay shoreline

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tamyen ethnicGroup Tamyen people
Tamyen language ethnicGroup Tamyen people
Tamyen language namedAfter Tamyen people
Thamien ethnicGroupOf Tamyen people