The Kawaiisu Nation (pronounced: "ka-wai-ah-soo" [needs IPA]) are a tribe of indigenous people of California in the United States. The Kawaiisu Nation is the only treatied tribe in California, …

Learn about tribal education, tribal art, and the history of the Kawaiisu tribe on our website.

The name Kawaiisu is taken from the language of the Yokuts, a Native American tribe of the San Joaquin Valley. The Kawaiisu referred to themselves as the Nuwa (new-wa) or The People.

Because their lands lay on both the east and west sides of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the culture of the Kawaiisu was related both to the California groups to the west, and the Great …

The Kawaiisu were of Shoshonean lineage who spoke the Southern Numic subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan language. Migrating from the Great Basin, they had made the Tehachapi area their …

Mar 22, 2025 · The Kawaiisu were of Shoshonean lineage who spoke the Southern Numic subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan language. Migrating from the Great Basin, they had made the …

May 14, 2024 · The Kawaiisu (pronounced: ″ka-wai-ah-soo″) are a Native Californian ethnic group in the United States who live in the Tehachapi Valley and to the north across the Tehachapi …

The Kawaiisu – a small band of about 200 people indigenous to the remote and rural Tehachapi and Paiute Mountain areas of Kern County – have just five living, fluent speakers of their …

Oct 23, 2017 · Nearly 200 visitors attended the dedication of a native Kawaiisu acorn gathering site high in the mountains of Bear Valley Springs Sunday. Long known by locals, the site was …

Kawaiisu is a Uto-Aztecan language of California. Only a few elders still speak the language fluently, but some young people are working to keep their ancestral language alive. Sponsored …