36 Facts About Ohlone people

The Ohlone people languages make up a sub-family of the Utian language family.

Ohlone people living today belong to one or another of a number of geographically distinct groups, most, but not all, in their original home territory.

Ohlone people inhabited fixed village locations, moving temporarily to gather seasonal foodstuffs like acorns and berries.

The Ohlone people lived in Northern California from the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula down to northern region of Big Sur, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Diablo Range in the east.

The Ohlone people villages interacted through trade, intermarriage and ceremonial events, as well as some internecine conflict.

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Ohlone people subsisted mainly as hunter-gatherers and in some ways harvesters.

The Ohlone people probably practiced Kuksu, a form of shamanism shared by many Central and Northern California tribes.

Although, it is possible that the Ohlone people learned Kuksu from other tribes while at the missions.

Some of these Ohlone people healed through the use of herbs, and some were shamans who were believed to heal through their ability to contact the spirit world.

Additionally, some Ohlone people bands built prayer houses, called sweat lodges, for ceremonial and spiritual purification purposes.

Many Ohlone bands refer to anthropologic records to reconstruct their sacred narratives because some Ohlone people living in the missions acted as "professional consultants" for anthropologic research, and therefore told their past stories.

Additionally, through knowing sacred narratives and sharing them with the public through live performances or storytelling, the Ohlone people are able to create an awareness that their cultural group is not extinct, but actually surviving and wanting recognition.

Ohlone people often competed with Hummingbird, who despite his small size regularly got the better of him.

The Ohlone people territory consisted of the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula down to Big Sur in the south.

The Ohlone people were able to thrive in this area by hunting, fishing, and gathering, in the typical pattern found in California coastal tribes.

Each of the Ohlone people villages interacted with each other through trade, intermarriage, and ceremonial events, as well as through occasional conflict.

Ohlone people culture was relatively stable until the first Spanish soldiers and missionaries arrived with the double-purpose of Christianizing the Native Americans by building a series of missions and of expanding Spanish territorial claims.

The missions erected within the Ohlone people region were: Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Mission San Francisco de Asis (founded in 1776), Mission Santa Clara de Asis (founded in 1777), Mission Santa Cruz (founded in 1791), Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (founded in 1791), Mission San Jose (founded in 1797), and Mission San Juan Bautista (founded in 1797).

The Ohlone people who went to live at the missions were called Mission Indians, and "neophytes.

At this point, the Ohlone people were supposed to receive land grants and property rights, but few did and most of the mission lands went to the secular administrators.

The Ohlone people became the laborers and vaqueros of Mexican-owned rancherias.

Many of the Ohlone people that had survived the experience at Mission San Jose went to work at Alisal Rancheria in Pleasanton, and El Molino in Niles.

Ohlone people lost the vast majority of their population between 1780 and 1850, because of an abysmal birth rate, high infant mortality rate, diseases and social upheaval associated with European immigration into California.

Ohlone people'sllmounds are essentially Ohlone habitation sites where peopled lived and died and often buried.

Ohlone people'sllmounds were once found all over the San Francisco Bay area near marshlands, creeks, wetlands, and rivers.

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Ohlone people believed that this would give them good fortune in the afterlife.

Local Ohlone people groups have fought to have a portion of it protected and returned to their use.

City of Vallejo, California built Glen Cove Waterfront Park after years of protests from Ohlone people and their allies that the location was a sacred site known as Sogorea Te', one of the last native village sites in the San Francisco Bay that had escaped urban development.

Ohlone people remains were discovered in 1973 near Highway 87 during housing development.

For many years, the Ohlone people were called the Costanoans in English language and records.

Since the 1960s, the name of Ohlone people has been used by some of the members and the popular media to replace the name Costanoan.

Ohlone people might have originally derived from a Spanish rancho called Oljon, and referred to a single band who inhabited the Pacific Coast near Pescadero Creek.

However, because of its tribal origin, Ohlone is not universally accepted by the native people, and some members prefer to either to continue to use the name Costanoan or to revitalize and be known as the Muwekma.

Teixeira maintains Ohlone people is the common usage since 1960, which has been traced back to the Rancho Oljon on the Pescadero Creek.

Ohlone people'storians differ widely in their estimates, as they do with the entire population of Native California.

Chroniclers, ethnohistorians, and linguists of the Ohlone population began with: Alfred L Kroeber who researched the California natives and authored a few publications on the Ohlone from 1904 to 1910, and C Hart Merriam who researched the Ohlone in detail from 1902 to 1929.