Nuestra Familia
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Nuestra Familia
In	Soledad, California Correctional Training Facility
Years active	1968 - present
Territory	Northern California and Central California .
Ethnicity	primarily Mexican/Mexican Americans

Nuestra Familia (Spanish for "Our Family") is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California¹. While members of the Norteños gang are considered to be affiliated with Nuestra Familia, being a member of Nuestra Familia itself does not signify association as a Norteño. Some law enforcement agents speculate that the Norteños were possibly a spin-off of Nuestra Familia in an attempt to divert prison official attention from NF².