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Costanoan

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Noun1.Costanoan - a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay
Penutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
2.Costanoan - a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan
Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California


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Louise Miranda Ramirez, who chairs the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, has been on-site overseeing the excavation.
What remain of the nearly vanished Ohlone people today are also known as the Costanoan and as the Muwekma Native American tribes.
These attracted landscape architect George Hargreaves who compares the freeway system to ancient rivers like the Guadalupe River in San Jose that once nurtured the Costanoan Indians but now is controlled in a series of parks designed by Hargreaves in this capital of high-tech industry.
 
 
 
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