The population of California in the 1840s was around 15,000. There were about 6 non Indians living in California and around 10,000 Indians.
Native Americans lived in California before anyone else.
Approximately 120,000 Japanese and/or Japanese-Americans lived in the US during and prior to WW2; of which over 90,000 lived in California.
Missionaries, priests, padres, and many numbers of Native Americans lived in California missions.
local native americans
Missionaries, priests, padres, and many numbers of Native Americans lived in California missions.
California currently has the highest population of Americans of Japanese descent.
In 1940, close to 100,000 Japanese-Americans lived in California. Nearly 160,000 lived in Hawaii.
the missionaries, priests, Native Americans, and the California Indians
Native Americans who lived in northwestern California near the Klamath River and Pacific coast.
They have lived for a little while because they their wasn't so much shelter for them.
Native Americans lived in the area 8000 years ago, but it was the Portuguese who first explored the coast in 1542.
The Paiute, Sierra Miwok and the Ahwaneechee of the Northern Paiute.