Mono tribe
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The Mono are a Native American people who traditionally lived in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains (generally south of Bridgeport, California) and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. They are divided into the Eastern Mono and the Western Mono, roughly based on the Sierra crest . The Eastern Mono are also known as the Owens Valley Paiute, and some anthropologists group them with the Northern Paiute.
The Mono speak the Mono language, which is in the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
[edit] Population
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See Population of Native California.) Alfred L. Kroeber (1925:883) suggested that the 1770 population of the Mono was 4,000. Sherburne F. Cook (1976:192) set the population of the Western Mono alone was about 1,800.
Kroeber reported the population of the Mono in 1910 as 1,500.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Cook, Sherburne F. 1976. The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.
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