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9780930588014

Ohlone Way

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  • ISBN13:

    9780930588014

  • ISBN10:

    0930588010

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1981-08-01
  • Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

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Nonfiction. Two hundred years ago herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for salmon and steelhead trout. From the vast marshlands, geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds "with a sound like that of a hurricane." This land of "inexpressible fertility," as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America. Clearly and accessibly written, uniquely alive

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(7)
PART I. THE OHLONES AND THEIR LAND
Land and Animals
7(6)
An Ohlone Village
13(10)
Hunting as a Way of Life
23(6)
The Deer Hunter
29(7)
Almost Amphibious
36(5)
The Acorn Harvest
41(5)
The Seed Meadow
46(6)
A Wandering Life
52(6)
A Settled Way
58(9)
PART II. LIFE IN A SMALL SOCIETY
Birth and Childhood
67(11)
Marriage
78(11)
A Life of Sharing
89(6)
The Traders
95(8)
The Chief
103(5)
Warfare
108(9)
PART III. THE WORLD OF THE SPIRIT
The Basketmakers
117(6)
The Shamans
123(11)
Sacred Time
134(11)
The Island of the Dead
145(5)
Dancing
150(7)
PART IV. MODERN TIMES
The Last Two Centuries
157(12)
Postscript 169(2)
Bibliography 171(6)
Index 177

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