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    The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
    The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
    The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
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    The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

    By Malcolm Margolin

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    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 silver salmon and steelhead trout. From 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.

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    Invaluable resource…

    Malcolm Margolin set out to make the way of the Ohlone — the Native American tribes that lived in the Bay Area before colonization — comprehensible to contemporary readers. To that end, he took an unusual approach. He turned his extensive research toward descriptive ends, writing a series of vignettes describing what the day-to-day experience of different aspects of life in the Bay Area were for thousands of years, including hunting, gathering, marriage, illness, politics, war, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeyday
    Release dateJul 1, 2003
    ISBN9781597142199
    The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
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    Malcolm Margolin

    Malcolm Margolin is the publisher emeritus of Heyday, an independent nonprofit publisher and unique cultural institution, which he founded in 1974. Margolin is author of several books, including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area, named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by a western writer. He has received dozens of prestigious awards among which are the Chairman's Commendation from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fred Cody Award Lifetime Achievement from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, the Helen Crocker Russell Award for Community Leadership from the San Francisco Foundation, the Carey McWilliams Award for Lifetime Achievement from the California Studies Association, an Oscar Lewis Award for Western History from the Book Club of California, a Hubert Bancroft Award from Friends of the Bancroft Library, a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He helped found the Bay Nature Institute and the Alliance for California Traditional Artists.

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    • 4/5
      Although this was required reading, I enjoyed it despite having neutral interest in the subject. The book covers all the aspects of Ohlone lives that I needed to know. It discusses their subsistence without agriculture (acorns, grass seeds, fruits, and fish, shellfish, game). It covers social and cultural practices such as coming of age, marriage, childbirth, funerals, as well as day-to-day life activities such as going to the sweat house and basket-weaving. It also has coverage of the spiritual beliefs and practices. The book ends with a short overview of the accidental genocide of the Ohlone, along with the other Native Americans in California, at the hands of the Spanish missions of California. One star off for the point of view and style of writing, which are both very Berkeley, 1970s. I don't disagree with the view, but I found some of the metaphors and stylistic choices a little distracting and dated.It was perhaps most interesting to me to learn about the Ohlone's relationship with the same land I live on. I would recommend this to anyone who lives in or has interest in the area or is interested in the topic.
    • 5/5
      Reviewed March 2006 Second time reading this book, I really need to reread it every few years as it has so much information about this area. Margolin started with the question, “what was life in the Bay Area like before the coming of the Europeans?” I think I got this book when taking CA history at Hartnell, maybe this should be required reading in Junior High? Nothing is more relevant to students living in the area but to know about the peoples living in the area before. I was very interested to note that the Ohlone’s belief in the supernatural and animism, “served in place of a formal code of laws.” This kept people at peace, healthy an not overpopulated. Taboos worked as determents as well as not over hunting and showing respect for people, places and things. Also amazing is that these people have no history, “no sense of years, no long genealogies, no history by which they could measure or even conceive of the passage of time.” They were unable to mention the dead or even think about their ancestors in any specific sense. Lastly the author sums up what eventually happens to the Ohlone culture, “replaced by a civilization technologically more advanced than theirs, but in many respects ecologically, socially and spiritually more backward.” 4-2006

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