TOURS TO START AT ANCIENT INDIAN SITE.Byline: Daily News TEHACHAPI - Spring tours will begin Saturday at a state historic park where there is an American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. village site once inhabited in·hab·it·ed adj. Having inhabitants; lived in: a sparsely inhabited plain. Adj. 1. inhabited - having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth" by the Kawaiisu people. Although no structures remain, Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park contains pictographs, rock rings marking where homes were built of juniper boughs, hundreds of holes where food was ground, and a cave that is sacred to the Kawaiisu. "The site itself is beautiful, and it's apparent why they chose this area as their winter home," said state parks staffer Jean Scott. "Descendants DESCENDANTS. Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree. Ambl. 327 2 Bro. C. C. 30; Id. 230 3 Bro. C. C. 367; 1 Rop. Leg. 115; 2 Bouv. n. 1956. 2. of the Kawaiisu are alive and well in Tehachapi, and there is a great effort to revive and preserve their culture, such as the creation of a full dictionary of the Kawaiisu language, which was compiled just as the last two fluent speakers were in their 90s." The park's name, Tomo-Kahni, means "winter home" in the in the language of the Kawaiisu, or Nuooah, a Shoshonean people who ranged from the Tehachapi area to Red Rock Canyon There are more than 30 parks and canyons in the U.S. named Red Rock Canyon: Parks
The park covers 240 acres of rolling hills Rolling hills are like a mountain chain, only a "hill chain" of hills that roll on and on continually. You will often find them in between plains and mountains, near major rivers, or randomly anywhere. The only places without rolling hills are deserts and flood plains. between Tehachapi and Mojave. Kawaiisu lived there until the first part of the 20th century. To protect the archaeological sites from vandals and artifact A distortion in an image or sound caused by a limitation or malfunction in the hardware or software. Artifacts may or may not be easily detectable. Under intense inspection, one might find artifacts all the time, but a few pixels out of balance or a few milliseconds of abnormal sound hunters, the park is open to the public only through guided tours guided tour guide n → visite guidée; what time does the guided tour start? → la visite guidée commence à quelle heure? led by docents in spring and fall. Tours involve a moderately strenuous stren·u·ous adj. 1. Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion: a strenuous task. 2. Vigorously active; energetic or zealous. hike. Tours this spring will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. They will continue when weather permits through June 24. Tours, limited to 12 people, last approximately four hours, starting with a meeting at the Tomo-Kahni Resource Center in Tehachapi for a brief orientation and including the drive to the park. Reservations must be made through the parks office at 43779 15th St. W. in Lancaster, or by calling (661) 942-0662, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The reservation fee is $5 for one to six people and $10 for seven to 12 people. The cost of the tour is $4 per adult and $2 per child age 6 through 16, paid on the day of the tour. The tour is not recommended for children age 5 and younger, but they are admitted free and must be cared for by adults who bring them. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Above, visitors follow a docent on a tour through Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park, where spring tours will start Saturday. Below, pictographs adorn a rock wall at the park. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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