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Preferred term

cstTamyen  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Tamyen (also spelled as Tamien, Thamien) are one of eight linguistic divisions of the Ohlone (Coastanoan) people groups of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. The Tamyen lived throughout the Santa Clara Valley. The use of the name Tamyen is on record as early as 1777, it comes from the Ohlone name for the location of the first Mission Santa Clara (Mission Santa Clara de Thamien) on the Guadalupe River. Father Pena mentioned in a letter to Junipero Serra that the area around the mission was called Thamien by the native people. The missionary fathers erected the mission on January 17, 1777 at the native village of So-co-is-u-ka.

Entry terms

  • Northern Ohlone
  • Ohlone, Northern

ISO 639-3 code

  • cst

Notation

  • cst

In other languages

  • Tamyen

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cst

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