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For at least the last 10000 years Salinan people have inhabited the Central part of California from the Pacific Ocean East to the Temblor Mountains. Today we are known as the Salinan People named by the California Spanish Missionaries who built Missions San Luis Obispo de Tolosa San Miguel Arcangel and San Antonio de Padua. Through selfreliance and preservation we continue to thrive through hundreds of years of changes that impacted our culture. Living in the lands of our ancestors we have all we need to survive we continue to hunt fish and gather traditional materials during these modern times.