Hello world! I am inaugurating my new website which will have migrated into it my old website-First Peoples On the Land Southern California. This site will continue along that theme but will include a focus on my writing
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The Worldview of the Chumash People
Chumash Cosmology adapted from the telling of Thomas Blackburn from the notes of JP Harrington There are three worlds: one above, one below and this one. We live in the center, on the biggest island. There are two snakes below, who, when they move cause of earthquakes. There is a being above, the Eagle of … Continue reading The Worldview of the Chumash People
Cabrillo’s Voyage
Relation of the voyage of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo 1542 – 1543 In: Spanish Exploration in the Southwest 1542 – 1706, edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton, Scribner’s Sons New York 1916 On the following Thursday they went about six leagues along the coast running north northwest, and discovered a port, closed and very good, which they … Continue reading Cabrillo’s Voyage
Serrano Creation Story
The Serrano (Spanish for mountain people) ranged over the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California–Their relatives the Vanyume are little known because they were devastated by the European conquest–They ranged out over the Mojave Desert–Here is part of the Serrano creation story–It has elements found in most Southern California Creation stories–The dying god–twin gods–the cremation … Continue reading Serrano Creation Story
Memoirs of California from the 1820s by a Russian Visitor
Memoirs of California KT Khlebnikov and Anatole G Mazour Pacific Historical Review, volume 9, number 3 September 1940 pages 307 – 336 Memoirs of California by KT Khlebnikov, translated by G Mazour: At the missions there are from 500 to 3000 Indians of both sexes. In former days under Spanish rule the governors partly equipped … Continue reading Memoirs of California from the 1820s by a Russian Visitor
