Definitions for esselen
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Esselennoun

   a member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey

2. Esselennoun

   the Hokan language spoken by the Esselen

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1. Esselennoun

   An indigenous population native to the region of Big Sur on the Central Coast of California.

2. Esselennoun

   The language of this people.

3. Etymology: The name Esselen "probably derived from the name of a major native village", possibly from the village known as Exse'ein, or the place called Eslenes the site of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo. The Spanish extended the term to mean the entire linguistic group (Hester 1978:498-499).

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1. Esselen

   The Esselen are a Native American people belonging to a linguistic group in the hypothetical Hokan language family, who are indigenous to the Santa Lucia Mountains of a region south of the Big Sur River in Big Sur, Monterey County, California. Prior to Spanish colonization, they lived seasonally on the coast and inland, surviving off the plentiful seafood during the summer and acorns and wildlife during the rest of the year. During the mission period of California history, Esselen children were baptized by the priests when they left their villages and relocated as family units to live in the missions where they learned reading writing and various trades. The Esselen were required to labor at the three nearby missions, Mission San Carlos, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, and Mission San Antonio de Padua. Like many Native American populations, their members were decimated by starvation, forced labor, over work, torture, and diseases that they had no natural resistance to. Historically, they were one of the smallest Native American populations in California. Various experts estimate there were from 500-1,285 individuals living in the steep, rocky region at the time of the arrival of the Spanish. Due to their proximity to three Spanish missions, they were likely one of the first whose culture was virtually eliminated as a result of European contact and domination. The people were believed to have been exterminated but some tribal members avoided the mission life and emerged from the forest to work in nearby ranches in the early and late 1800s. Descendants of the Esselen are currently scattered, but many still live in the Monterey Peninsula area and nearby regions.

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1. esselen

   Esselen refers to the indigenous people traditionally inhabiting the Santa Lucia Mountains and the coastal area of what is now Big Sur in Monterey County, California. The term is also used to refer to their extinct language, which was part of the Hokan language family.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of esselen in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of esselen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=esselen
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Esselen
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esselen
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