According to online sources California was named after its last Muurish Empress Queen Khalifia a decedent of the Olmecs, West Africa Manding, and the Kemites (Egyptians). Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo provides us with a description of Queen Khalifia around 1500 when he wrote Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián).
The pic above is cave art of Queen Khalifia found in California.
eurweb has a great article about her and the history of blacks in california. Heres a piece of the article below.
“Reigning over the Empire of Xi, in the ancient kingdom of Utla, the nation of AtLan, was the great queen of gold and diamonds, ruler of the California Blacks. Queen Califia, decorated warrior general – mother, was the grand and beautiful royal leader in the beloved, wealthy, and powerful, Land of the Blacks:
A civilization with an abundance of natural resources: gold, diamonds, vast quantities of precious stones and metals, with territory spanning thousands and thousands of miles throughout California. From the coast of San Francisco to Bahia Mexico, as far inland as Colorado, Utah, and all the Pacific Ocean Island Nations including Hawaii, and Australia. Places where most of the original inhabitants were aborigine, black and brown people of color.
Queen Califia was a powerful General Queen, a strategic opponent, who Continue reading “Queen Khalifia”