Explaining the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians’ history and citizens is complicated to people unfamiliar with our kinship practices. Internally we use a complex village descendancy with village names and lineages to identify each family. However, with the external community, the Tribe uses a less complex name [Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians] to convey the message that we are a confederacy of indigenous peoples associated with certain places, times, and events in history.