GC602TX Mondo's NAT #578 - Tübatulabal
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 07/23/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 40.917 W104° 36.614 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Native American Tribes series.

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Tübatulabal

The valley of the Kern River has been the home of three distinct bands which are collectively named Tübatulabal. The name Tübatulabal loosely translates as "Pine-nut Eaters." The name was given to the tribe by the neighboring Yokuts. At one point in history the Yokuts also called the Tübatulabals, "Pitanisha" (place where the rivers fork). The name for the north fork of the river has the Indian name of, Palegewanap or "place of the big river." The south fork of the river conversely was given the name of Kutchibichwanap Palap, or "place of the little river."

The Tübatulabal people are an indigenous people of Kern River Valley in the Sierra Nevada range of Southern California. They may have been the first people to make this area their permanent home.Today many of them are enrolled in the Tule River Indian Tribe. They are descendants of the people of the Uto-Aztecan language group, separating from Shoshone people about 3000 years ago.

Estimates for the precontact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. By two estimates, the Tübatulabal were a small to very small nation. Alfred L. Kroeber put the 1770 population of the Tübatulabal as 1,000. Erminie W. Voegelin considered Kroeber's estimate too high. For the time of initial European-American settlement, around 1850, she estimated 200-300. Kroeber in 1910 reported the population of the Tübatulabal as 150. Yamamoto in 2000 estimated the population at 900. Today about 400 Tübatulabal people reside in the Kern River Valley of California. 500 more live in surrounding areas.

05/31/2019 By CacheDeposit
TFTC

03/30/2019 By team.STEWART817
TFTC! Excited to have to many on the drive home and opportunity to learn something

03/24/2019 By imusttravel2000
Sweet! Thanks

03/24/2019 By poolsharkycat
a group still around. Than

11/26/2018 By mondou2
Refurbished

10/22/2018 By Krystalroze
Left a goodie, log is full. Tftc

09/28/2018 By djkfisher
Out from Bend Oregon for a little a little work and a little caching. Thanks so much to all the cacher’s that have placed these smiles for all to find.

Right where it was supposed to be. Loving the blue sky

We are Geocaching the world one cache at a time!  May the wind be at your back and the sun shine warm upon your face!

Found on my iPhoneX using the Cachly APP

09/03/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #48853

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

07/29/2018 By Seisbery
Tftc

07/25/2018 By Aidfuts
Trying to get the the Dragon on the last Hidden Creature day. Of course it's raining. We saved a row of these as drafts, and took pictures of the caches instead of signing the log. Unfortunately, the pictures did not save when i came back to post.

07/15/2018 By fearthefish
Apparently I am no longer able to find a cache without being accompanied by the lovable and always cheerful herndonrd. Today was no exception, as I was out and about caching with herndonrd simply because I make him look good. He typically finds the caches while I look in all the wrong places. Today was an especially exciting day since I let him drive, which is like going to a carnival except you can't get fried Twinkies.

But I digress.

Today my goal was to find 24 caches (no more, no less) so I could complete another challenge that I signed far too long ago. Since herndonrd was occupied operating the heavy machinery, it was my job to do the fetching. Fortunately this was a quick and easy one. After I did the whole sign and replace thing we celebrated our victory by getting in the car and then driving off to another cache. Thanks for the fun hide and for getting me outside on such a beautiful day.

P. S. No animals (humans or otherwise) were harmed in the writing of this log.

07/13/2018 By tc54915
Had the whole day to waste waiting for my coworker to get into town, so I figured I would grab some easy ones. This is so not fun doing park and grabs by yourself. Oh well...TFTC

07/08/2018 By GanderGoose
Discovered a nice row of 22 caches on the geocaching map so I headed south on a beautiful summer day in pursuit of the dragon souvenir. It was a peaceful road this morning. Thanks for the history and placement, mondou2!