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2009 - Ohlone/Costanoan Indians Of The San Francisco Peninsula And Their Neighbors, Yesterday And Today By Randall Milliken, Laurence H. Shoup, And Beverly R. Ortiz Jul 2017

2009 - Ohlone/Costanoan Indians Of The San Francisco Peninsula And Their Neighbors, Yesterday And Today By Randall Milliken, Laurence H. Shoup, And Beverly R. Ortiz

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This 2009 report studies the Ohlone/Costanoan people who are the descendants of speakers of six related Costanoan languages that were spoken in west central California, from San Francisco Bay to Monterey Bay, when Spanish missionaries and settlers arrived in the 1770s. The San Francisco Peninsula lands of the Golden Gate Recreation Area is in one of the six language territories, San Francisco Bay Costanoan. In this study, the prehistoric and contact-period culture of the San Francisco Bay Costanoans is described and their culture is compared to the cultures of surrounding language groups (other Costanoan language groups and non-Costanoan language groups …


2000 - A Line Through The Past – Historical And Ethnographic Background For The Branch Canal, California State Water Project, Coastal Branch Series Paper Number 1. Jun 2017

2000 - A Line Through The Past – Historical And Ethnographic Background For The Branch Canal, California State Water Project, Coastal Branch Series Paper Number 1.

Government Documents and Publications

This 2000 publication of the San Luis Obispo County Archaeological Society documents the major prehistoric and historic studies carried out in connection with the California State Water Project, Coastal Branch, Phase II. The State Water Project delivers water from the California Aqueduct to San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. The California Department of Parks and Recreation along with various cultural resource management firms, conducted the cultural resources studies and reports for the State Water Project.


1851-1852 - Eighteen Unratified Treaties Between California Indians And The United States Apr 2017

1851-1852 - Eighteen Unratified Treaties Between California Indians And The United States

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A typed copy of the original treaties made between 1851 and 1852. The eighteen treaties were signed by members of California Indian tribes and any one of three Treaty Commissioners whose appointments had been authorized by President Fillmore and the United States Senate. The treaties were never ratified by the United States Senate.


2005 – An Ethnogeography Of Salinan And Northern Chumas Communities – 1769 To 1810 Mar 2017

2005 – An Ethnogeography Of Salinan And Northern Chumas Communities – 1769 To 1810

Government Documents and Publications

This report provides a new understanding of the Salinan and Northern Chumash communities as they might have existed at Spanish contact, between 1769 and 1810. It relies mainly upon evidence in the registers of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial for missions San Antonio, San Luis Obispo, and San Miguel. Although the registers contain the names of 205 rancherías (villages and multi-village communities), they contain few direct clues about the placement of those rancherías on the landscape. To aid locational identification, all of the J.P. Harrington notes on the Salinan and Chumash were reviewed. The present study is the next level …


1899 – Eighteenth Annual Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology - 1896-97, Part 2, J. W. Powell, Charles C. Royce, Cyrus Thomas Feb 2017

1899 – Eighteenth Annual Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology - 1896-97, Part 2, J. W. Powell, Charles C. Royce, Cyrus Thomas

Government Documents and Publications

Report to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning the respective rights of European nations in the newly discovered territory, foreign policy toward the Indians, Colonial policy toward the Indians and United States policy toward the Indians. The report includes a Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress Authorizing Allotments of Land in Severalty and a Schedule of Land Cessions.


1877 – Tribes Of California, Contributions To North American Ethnology, Vol. Iii, Stephen Powers Feb 2017

1877 – Tribes Of California, Contributions To North American Ethnology, Vol. Iii, Stephen Powers

Government Documents and Publications

This 1877 report references 36 Tribes of California including, but not limited to, their habitats, customs, sustenance, mythology and language. The report concludes with chapters on General Facts regarding the natives of California, Aboriginal Botany and thoughts on prehistoric California. [Pages 4 and five of the Preface are missing.]