Teaching 3rd and 4th Graders to Love California Indian History and Culture: An On-Line and In-Class Adventure
Module 5: California Indian History
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Teaching 3rd and 4th Graders to Love California Indian History and Culture: An On-Line and In-Class Adventure
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The ancestors of the Hokan or possibly the Yukians may have been the first inhabitants of California. The Encinitas Culture appeared 5500 BC in the San Diego area. The Campbell Culture appeared around Santa Barbara 3000 BC. The Hotchkiss culture in Central California began about 500BC. The Takic Uto-Aztecans arrived in their aboriginal southern California territories and the Penutians arrived in the central valley in the century before the time of Christ. The Athapaskans were the last to arrive, sometime around AD 900. |
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| California was the most densely populated of the United States at the time of European arrival with a population of approximately 150,000 (1.5 persons per square mile). This was in spite of the fact that all of the California tribes were hunter/gatherers except for the farmers along the Colorado River. The dense population was the product of the relatively peaceful nature of the California tribes and the bountiful supply of fish, game, and edible vegetation, and natural boundaries created by the relatively irregular terrain. | ||||||||||||||||
| About 135,000 native Californians died in the 100 year holocaust after the arrival of the Europeans. Spanish missions, Mexican feudal land barons, and especially the settlers and miners of the gold rush brought the genocide and disease. | ||||||||||||||||
| A large number of unrecognized Native Americans live in California today. There is a large urban Indian population in California, particularly Los Angeles, of people who have migrated from other areas of the United States. | ||||||||||||||||
| Today, there are 104 reservations and rancherias in California and a additional 40 groups who have applied for federal recognition. |
| Click on the following links for cultural and historical information about individual ethnies and read the texts in their entirety: |
| .1 Detailed outline of California Indian history |
| .2 California Aboriginal Populations Analysis |
| .3 California Indian History Narrative 1769-1980 |
| Cache Park Net - California Indian History Narrative 1769-1980 To be used only if the Park Net web site is not up |
| At least read all of the following presentations and visit the respective links on the ethnies of the macro-culture of your geographical area: |
| Assignment: E-mail Dr. LaMay your journal entry for the ethnie of your area. |
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