Rumsen language
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The Rumsen language is one of eight Ohlone languages, historically spoken by the Rumsen people of Northern California. The Rumsen language was spoken from the Pajaro River to Point Sur, and on the low
Mission San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo, where many Rumsen were brought to live in the Mission Era
Isabel Meadows
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Isabel Meadows was an Ohlone ethnologist and the last fluent speaker of the Rumsen Ohlone language. She also spoke Esselen. She worked closely with the anthropologists from the Smithsonian Institution
Rumsen language
…spoken at the Mission San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo founded in 1770, the other being the Esselen language. The last fluent speaker of Rumsen was Isabel Meadows, who died in 1939. The Bureau of American Ethnology linguist John Peabody Harrington conducted very extensive fieldwork with Meadows in the last several…
Isabel Meadows in her 40s, circa 1890
Meadows as a young woman (c. 1880)