English

Proper noun

Esselen ‎(uncountable)

1. An indigenous population native to the region of Big Sur on the Central Coast of California.
2. The language of this people.

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Esselen, esq

References

Breschini, Gary S. and Trudy Haversat. 2004. The Esselen Indians of the Big Sur Country: The Land and the People. Salinas: Coyote Press. ISBN 1-4044-0003-6

• Hester, Thomas R. 1978. Esselen, in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8 (California). William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer, eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. ISBN 0-16-004578-9 / 0160045754, pages 496-499.