Kamia
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Kamia |
| Ethnie: | KAMIA (COMEYA, KUMEYAAY) |
| Language: | Delta-California Yuman |
| Family: | Yuman |
| Stock: | Western Hokan |
| Phylum: | Hokan |
| Macro-Culture: | Chungichnich |
| The Kamia were a nomadic desert hunter/gatherers and sometimes horticulturalists, closely akin to the Digueño tribes, and may even be considered to be southern or eastern . They were located roughly in what is now the Imperial County. They had little early White contact due to their remote territory. There are few historical notes as a result. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| South of Salton Sea |
| Present Locations |
| Adsorbed into other cultures, probably primarily eastern Digueño or Kumeyaay |
| Year | History |
| 1775 | Said by Garcés to live in the mountains south of the Salton Sea as hunters but ventured to the Colorado River for agriculture |
| 1849 | Whipple put the Comaiyah on the New River near the Salton Sea |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 300 | Gifford aboriginal population estimate | |
| 1700 | 300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1800 | 300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1849 | 254 | Heinzelman estimate |
| 1900 | 0 | NAHDB calculation (included in Digueño) |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Cocopa, Digueño, Halykwami, Kohuana |
| Kamia Sites |
| Indians of San Diego County http://libweb.sdsu.edu/sub_libs/pwhite/insdcnty.html |
| Journal of San Diego County History http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97summer/missionrevolt.htm |
| Indian Reservations in San Diego County http://www.acusd.edu/nativeamerican/reservations.html |
| Kumeyaay http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/july/papr/kumeyaay.html |
| San Diego History http://www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/timeline.htm |
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