While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Castake. One of several tribes formerly occupying "the
country from Buena Vista and Carises [Kern] lakes and Kern r. to the Sierra
Nevada and Coast range, Cal. By treaty of June 10, 1851, these tribes reserved a
tract between Tejon pass and Kern r. and ceded the remainder of their lands to
the United States. In 1862 they were reported to number 162 on Ft Tejon res.
Probably Shoshonean, though possibly
Mariposan or
Chumashan. Castac lake, in the Tejon pass region, derives its name from this
tribe and affords a further clue to its former habitat.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
