Tamyen
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The Tamyen (also known as Tamien) are one of eight divisions of the Ohlone (Coastanoan) people groups of Native Americans who lived in Northern California. The Tamyen lived throughout the Santa Clara Valley.
Tamyen (also called Santa Clara) is also the name of their spoken language, listed as one of the Costanoan language dialects in the Utian family as the language spoken at the Santa Clara Mission. Linguistically, Chocheño, Tamyen and Ramaytush were close dialects of a single language.
The Tamyen were considered hunter-gatherers populating the region since 500 AD. Their territory, the present day Santa Clara Valley, was bordered by other Ohlone people: Rumsen to the northwest, Chocheño to the northeast and east, Mutsun to the south, and the Awaswas to the west.
During the era of Spanish missions in California, the Tamyen's lives changed with the Mission Santa Clara de Asís of Santa Clara (founded in 1777), and later the Mission San José of Fremont(founded in 1797) built in their region. Most moved into one of these missions and were baptized, lived and educated to be Catholic neophytes, also known as Mission Indians, until the mission was discontinued by the Mexican Governement in 1834. A large majority of the Tamyen died from disease in the missions
Today, the Tamyen have joined with the other San Francisco Bay Area Ohlone people under the name of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. The Muwekma Ohlone are currently petitioning for U.S. federal recognition.
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[edit] Tamyen tribes and villages
The Tamyen (Tamien) village once existed near the Santa Clara Mission on Coyote Creek. [1]. The entire Santa Clara Valley was populated with dozens of small Tamien speaking villages. See:
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- Kroeber, Alfred L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (map of villages, page 465)
- Hylkema, Mark. "Tamien Station Archeaological Project", published by Bean, Lowell John, editor, in The Ohlone: Past and Present Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1994. ISBN 0-87919-129-5 (pages 249-270).
- Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1910 Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1995. ISBN 0-87919-132-5 (alk. paper)
- Teixeira, Lauren. The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press Publication, 1997. ISBN 0-87919-141-4.
| Ohlone / Costanoan Indigenous People of California |
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| Karkin • Chocheño • Ramaytush • Tamyen • Awaswas • Mutsun • Rumsen • Chalon • List of Tribes & Villages |
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| Mythology • Traditional Narratives • Utian languages • Hunting & Gathering • Native American |
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