For over 10,000 years the Xolon Salinan People, also known as "People of the Oaks", inhabited California's Central Coast and inland to the Diablo and Temblor Ranges. Our ancient territory also includes the Santa Lucia Range as well as the lands encompassing the Salinas River.

Many in our tribal family today, who are on our tribal rolls, (including myself) are related to one of the first Spanish leather-jacket soldiers who came with Serra to our land.

Xolon Salinan Council Council Chair Tribal Roll Administrator Karen R. White Council Vice Chair Blaise Haro Interim Council Sec retary Karen White Council Treasurer George "Butch" Larson Council Members Janet Pura-M artinez Johnn y Eddy Jr.

Our 13 known villages stretched from Monterey County to the Santa Maria River, inland along the Temblor Mountains, and all along the coast, from Big Sur to south San Luis Obispo County. We lived along the length of the River now known as the Salinas with which we share our name, from its Adelaide headwaters flowing north into Monterey.

2018年10月30日 · A 13-year-old boy stood atop an arch rock in Fort Hunter Liggett’s Stony Valley, silhouetted against the early summer sky. His grandmother, a member of the Xolon Salinan tribe, gasped in...

2017年12月15日 · Allison Herrera is Salinan, a California tribe that's not recognized by the federal government and has no land or sovereignty. She explains how that lead her family to lose its ancestral home. Journalists Allison Herrera (Salinan), Josephine Holtzman, and Isaac Kestenbaum talk about their...

Salinan-affiliated Tribes: Cultural affiliations are self-reported by Tribes.

Long before the terms Native American or Indian were created, the tribes were spread all over the Americas. Before any white man set foot on this territory, it

After we receive our Federal Recognition, we will begin our journey to find out more about this Cave Massacre, and what happened to the remains of our People. Were they left there, and the cave sealed up once again?