Tukutnut (also, Santa Teresa and Tucutnut) is a former
Rumsen settlement in
Monterey County
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California
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According to mission records, the village was located about upstream from the mouth of the
Carmel River, and it was the largest village of the Rumsen group of
Costanoan
The Ohlone, formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast. When Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived in the late 18th century, the Ohlone inhabited the ...
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[Milliken, Randall. 1987. ''Ethnohistory of the Rumsen''. Papers in Northern California Anthropology No. 2. Salinas, CA: Coyote Press.]
References
Rumsen villages
Former settlements in Monterey County, California
Former Native American populated places in California
Lost Native American populated places in the United States
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