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

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

The culture of the Indian people who inhabited the Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans

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 â€œwith a sound like that of a hurricane.â€ This land of â€œinexpressible fertility,â€ as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America.

One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans. Recently included in the San Francisco Chronicleâ€™s â€œTop 100 Western Non-Fictionâ€ list, The Ohlone Way has been described by critic Pat Holt as a â€œmini-classic.â€

Reviews

â€œA beautiful book, written and illustrated with a genuine sympathy....A serious and compelling re-creation.â€
â€”The Pacific Sun

â€œRemarkable insight in to the lives of the Ohlone Indians.â€
â€”San Francisco Chronicle

â€œMargolin conveys the texture of daily life, birth, marriage, death, war, the arts, and rituals, and he also discusses the brief history of the Ohlones under the Spanish, Mexican, and American regimes...Margolin does not give way to romanticism or political harangues, and the illustrations have a gritty quality that is preferable to the dreamy, pretty pictures that too often accompany texts like this.â€
â€”Choice
Country USA
Manufacturer Heyday
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-01-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Heyday
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-01-14
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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