The Kitanemuk are an Indigenous people of California and were a tribal village of the Kawaiisu Nation.

Today some of these members people are enrolled in the federally recognized Tejon Indian Tribe of California.

traditionally spoke the a Uto-Aztecan language.Most experts contend that the Kitanemuk were not a separate tribal entity at all but were a group of Kawaiisu who were converted by missionaries to Christianity.

As they converted, they gave up the Kawaiisu belief system and lost any ability to speak the local native language

It is estimated by current tribal records that the total number of eligible Kawaiisu members is close to 100,000.