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
Recent Posts
Kamia Creation Story
A Version of the Cahuilla Creation Story–The Cahuilla People Ranged Over the Southern California Landscape–In the Colorado Desert, the San Jacinto Mountains and the San Gorgonio Pass
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
