California
Cahuilla Hunting
In general, California Indians have been classified as hunters and gatherers, meaning that they tended to obtain food from hunting and from gathering wild plants. […]
California
Pomo Feathered Baskets (Photo Diary)
The aboriginal Pomo territory was about 50 miles north of present-day San Francisco. Pomo territory included the Pacific Coast and extended some distance inland as […]
The California Story Begins
One of the displays in the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California, is entitled Sacred Earth and subtitled Understanding our past and honoring cultures […]
The Luiseño Village
Before the European invasion, led by the Spanish in the eighteenth century, Southern California Native Americans lived in small villages of up to 200 inhabitants. […]
Archaeology: The Spring Rancheria
A literate society does not record a complete history of all of the people in the society. History is often recorded by ruling elites to […]
The Cahuilla Homeland
The Cahuilla homeland in California was bounded on the north by the San Bernardino Mountains; on the south by the northern Borrego Desert; on the […]
Life in a California Rock Shelter
The San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California, has a display on early California Indians entitled Life in a Rock Shelter. The earliest peoples in […]
The Cahuilla Big Four Foods
The Cahuilla homeland in California was bounded on the north by the San Bernardino Mountains; on the south by the northern Borrego Desert; on the […]
California Missions 200 Years Ago, 1819
In 1819, the Spanish missions in California were continuing their practice of enslaving Indians in order to convert them to Christianity. At this time, the […]
Bay Area Idle No More activist reflects on protesting Jerry Brown’s climate speech in Bonn
Daniel Ilario and María De Lime Dorsey of Idle No More, San Francisco Bay, protest Jerry Brown’s speech at the New York Times Climate Tech […]