Talk:Population of Native California

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Largest state population of Native Americans?

The factor on why California has this distinction is most of the Native American tribes living in the state originally came from other regions of the United States (a small percentage are of Native Californian tribes). The largest federally recognized Native American tribe are the Cherokee indigenous to the Southeastern United States and their tribal nation, the Cherokee Nation is in Oklahoma, along with Southwestern U.S. tribes: the Apache, Comanche, Hopi, Navajo, Paiute, Shoshone and Zuni whose tribal origins are not within present-day state boundaries, but they live in California.

Also to note an estimated 110,000 "Latin American Indians" originally from Mexico and Central/South America arrived by immigration into California with other Mexican immigration during the 20th century. This is the reason for California to have 700-800,000 Native Americans alone, but the majority of them aren't indigenous to California as a result to their ancestral near-extermination in the late 18th and 19th centuries by Spanish colonialism and conversion of tribes into the Roman Catholic Church (the state's Missions) and later American settlement. + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 03:41, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as the Paiute and Shoshone are concerned, at least some of these people are indigenous to California. The Owens Valley has Paiute and mixed Paiute-Shoshone populations numbering close to 3,000. There are a couple hundred Shoshone people in Death Valley as well. --74.103.150.125 (talk) 20:12, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]