Ohlone Teacher’s Resource

2nd edition

Full color images Classroom activities

A list of places to visit to learn about the Ohlone An extensive bibliography of Ohlone books, films,

websites and CD-ROM’s By Richard Di Giacomo

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Table of Contents: Introduction v Section One: Teaching Images 1. Where Did the Ohlone Live? 2 2. Tribal Regions of The San Francisco Bay Area 3 3. Ohlone on a Canoe Near San Francisco 4 4. Dance of the Inhabitants of Mission San Francisco 5 5. Dancers at Mission San José 6 6. Ohlone Home at Mission Dolores in San Francisco 7 7. Acorn Pounding Mortar 8 8. Acorn Pounding Holes at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park in Gilroy 9 9. Petroglyph Rock at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park in Gilroy 10 10. Interpretive Shelter at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park in Gilroy 11 11. Ohlone Village Representation at Coyote Hills Park in Fremont 12 12. Tule Marsh at Coyote Hills Park in Fremont 13 13. Ohlone Canoe Made from Tule Reeds 14 14. Winnowing Basket 15 15. A Father Teaching His Son to Hunt 16 16. Preparing for a Feast 17 17. Replica Ohlone Village near Deer Hollow Farm 18 18. Ohlone Arrowheads 19 19. Native Housing at Mission Santa Cruz 20 20. Ohlone Warriors Resisting the Spanish 21 Section Two: Classroom Activities 1. Ohlone Tribal Groups Word Search 23 2. The Ohlone at the Spanish Missions Crossword Puzzle 25 3. Ohlone Map Activity 28 4. What the Ohlone Knew Anachronism Activity 29 5. Ohlone Foods 31 6. Ohlone Fictional Story Writing 32 7. Ohlone Place Names 33 8. The Ohlone Today 34 Section Three: Places to Visit to Learn about the Ohlone 37 Section Four: Resources for Further Study 41

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Credits: Cover art from the Ohlone Village mural at the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum by Ann Thiermann, M.F.A. “Where Did the Ohlone Live? Map of the Ohlone languages and major villages” originally appeared as “Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages” on Wikipedia.com. This is a public domain image based upon the work of Richard Levy, Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 8: California. (R.F. Heizer, ed.) Smithsonian Institution,1978. The modifications contained in this book are copyrighted (c) 2007 Richard Di Giacomo. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" on the Wikipedia.com webpage. Danse des habitantes de Californie a la mission de San Francisco [ca. 1815] call # fG420.k84.C6 Vault Part 3, Plate III, Bateau du port de San Francisco [ca. 1815] call # fG420.k84.C6.1822 Part 3, Plate X, and Ein tanz der Indianauer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien, [ca. 1806] call # 1963.002.1023 ff-ALB courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Ohlone Home at Mission Dolores courtesy of Corinna Nilsen, http://www.flickr.com/photos/c_nilsen. Winnowing basket image courtesy of History San Jose. Petroglyph photograph courtesy of Donna Gillette. Detail images from “Dancing at Quiroste” a mural by Ann Thiermann, M.F.A. Tribal Regions of The San Francisco Bay Area map from Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice-The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810. Menlo Park, CA.: Ballena Press, 1995. Used with the permission of the author. Arrowheads from the collection of the San Mateo County Historical Association. Coastanoans Fighting Spanish Soldier by Tomas de Suria ca. 1791, Museo Naval, Madrid as depicted in Great Indians of California, copyright, Bellerophon Books.

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Introduction: This book is a resource book for teachers who need further information to help them teach their students about the Ohlone Indians of Northern California. This unit is mandated in the History–Social Science Framework for California Public Schools and the History-Social Science Content Standards for Grade Three which says: 3.2 Students describe the American Indian nations in their local region long ago and in the recent past. 1. Describe national identities, religious beliefs, customs, and various folklore traditions. 2. Discuss the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influenced how the local Indian nations adapted to their natural environment (e.g., how they obtained food, clothing, tools). 3. Describe the economy and systems of government, particularly those with tribal constitutions, and their relationship to federal and state governments. 4. Discuss the interaction of new settlers with the already established Indians of the region. The materials included in the book are for teachers to use as supplemental activities only. This book is not designed to be the core curriculum. Teachers should use their textbook and the secondary sources listed in the Resources for Further Study section at the end of this book to obtain the basic information about the Ohlone first, and then use the activities in this book to help teach the unit. It should be noted that older books sometimes refer to this tribe as the Costanoan Indians from a Spanish name for them, but most scholars and local Native Americans prefer the name Ohlone today.

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Section One: Ohlone Teaching Images 1. Where Did the Ohlone Live? 2. Tribal Regions of The San Francisco Bay Area 3. Ohlone on a Canoe Near San Francisco 4. Dance of the Inhabitants of Mission San Francisco 5. Dancers at Mission San José 6. Ohlone Home at Mission Dolores in San Francisco 7. Acorn Pounding Mortar 8. Acorn Pounding Holes at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park in Gilroy 9. Petroglyph Rock at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park in Gilroy 10. Interpretive Shelter at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park in Gilroy 11. Ohlone Village Representation at Coyote Hills Park in Fremont 12. Tule Marsh at Coyote Hills Park in Fremont 13. Ohlone Canoe made from Tule Reeds 14. Winnowing Basket 15. A Father Teaching His Son to Hunt 16. Preparing for a Feast 17. Replica Ohlone Village near Deer Hollow Farm 18. Ohlone Arrowheads 19. Native Housing at Mission Santa Cruz 20. Ohlone Warriors Resisting the Spanish

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Where Did the Ohlone Live?

Map of the Ohlone languages and major villages.

Mutsun

Tamien (Thamien, Tamyen)

Awaswas

Rumsien (Rumsen)

Chalon

Ramaytush

Chochenyo

Karkin (Carquin)

Mission San Francisco (Dolores) *

*Mission Santa Clara

Mission Santa Cruz *

* Mission San Juan Bautista

* Mission San José

Mission Carmel *

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Tribal Regions of The San Francisco Bay Area: southern perspective

Courtesy of Randall Milliken. From A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810.