Kamia
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Kamia |
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| Ethnie: | KAMIA (COMEYA) |
| Language: | Delta-California Yuman |
| Family: | Yuman |
| Stock: | Esselen-Yuman |
| Phylum: | Hokan |
| Macro-Culture: | Southern California, Colorado River |
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| The Kamia were a nomadic desert hunter/gatherers as well as farmers, closely akin to the Digueño tribes, and may even be considered to be southern or eastern Kumeyaay or Diegueno. 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 |
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