If you’re from California you definitely learned about this. All of 4th grade was history about California with an emphasis on Native American treatment and the Mission system. We even had a final project on a Mission of our choosing. Then I learned about it again in high school with more minority groups that were mistreated. Finally I took several classes in college that went even more in depth with far more graphic details.
I have researched and engaged with historians and native people to realize that the California history is older and more developed than anywhere in the U.S. I hope to reveal this at the upcoming 2028 Olympics with a historical kiosk at the new Hollywood Entertainment District. This reveals more Natural climate opportunities than anywhere. We just need to rid of BAD humans running the government here.
@@UnlimitedEmeraldsbut the mission stuff was mostly about the Spanish and how they forcefully assimilated native peoples. We never hear stuff like this - a thriving community of cultures at their prime
"The skies were dark with birds, the rivers boiled with fish, and grizzlies were everywhere" That how I saw California described when the Spanish came.
My dad said that when they first got here to Northern California from Texas in the mid 60’s. That when they would work the fields with the tractors that they would uncover those rocks they would use to grind the grains
California was so rich in acorns, game, and fish that this is one of the few places in the world where hunter gatherers lived in permanent villages. There was no need to farm. And the only domesticated animals were dogs.
Chatel Hoyuk, in Anatolia, is another place like that, one of the world's first towns. They had a steady supply of shellfish, fish and pistachio trees.
Yes, I believe that the US Govt. sold the marshland for $1 per acre and for every acre turned into farmland they got a $1 rebate. So essentially free land if you converted to farmland.
Anybody here ever been to Indian Meadows in northeastern California near the pit River it's a large large large meadow that housed anywhere between 50 to 300 individuals over 500 years after a rain you can walk around the field and find Arrowhead spear points you can't walk or take a step without stepping on obsidian shards all the boulders along the river have holes in the boulders for grinding acorns this is a very very special place that's why I won't tell you exactly where it is
Some California Native people that I know are pulling ancient S. American DNA. Perhaps one day they make a connection? The migration was sometimes from south to north and not just over a land bridge. The ancient natives were a seafaring people.
That's cool. They're everywhere in Japan too and we call them Kaizuka which transliteration is "shell mound". We learn about these prehistoric mounds found throughout Japan in middle school. Cool fact: In Ancient Japan there was a shell mound found far from any sort of seashore. Since geological changes in the landscape/sealine due to the post-ice age climate change weren't known at the time, the rationalization that was commonly accepted and integrated with the local folklore was that these shell mounds were used by the Giants that lived in the area that are able to cross long distances due to their size 😅 (FYI Oogushi Kaizuka/大串貝塚 is the modern name of that shell mound and the legend of Daidarabotchi ダイダラボッチ is the specific Giant folklore.)
The oak tree at the beginning looks like it may have been coppiced when much smaller. Recommended book: "Tending the Wild", by Kat Anderson. Native people were active landscape shapers and managers for millennia. "There was no need for agriculture". The "agriculture" was there, just dispersed.
We are now applying some of those lessons from indigenous peoples to our parks and forest management like controlled burns for instance. Europeans thought California was a paradise. They didn't know it was largely due to sophisticated and careful managing of the land.
Thank you for the recommendation. Foraging mushrooms, leafy greens, kelp, shellfish, fowl, berries and game in relatively close proximity meant low incentives to farm. I was told fire was used to manage hunting grounds. I have first hand sight petroglyphs at sea level in Tiburon and all the way to top of Sierras past Tahoe. They may not have left as much ceramics but their specialties included basket weaving and the processing of other foods as needed. The mountains may have reduced trade beyond coast which could explain less art sophistication or complexity by standards of Spanish Empire.
Also look up the vast and expansive ancient "Berkeley Walls" or "East Bay Walls" of California. These are extremely long and low ancient stacked-rock walls that extend for miles, similar to the low outlining property and pasture stacked-rock walls of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales,.etc. However, the distinct type of construction and design of the Berkeley Walls matches most closely with those found in MONGOLIA !!! From the historical accounts and records of the early Spanish and European explorers and settlers who arrived on the Western American coastline, they were told by the indigenous native Indians of this California area that these rock walls were not theirs and were "already there" from a previous people and culture, and were not built by their immediate native American Indian ancestors.
I believe Clear Lake in Lake County is considered the oldest natural lake in the northwest. 480,000 years old. Stands to reason it would have been inhabited very early. Estimates are approx 11,800 years ago for the Pomo.
Clear Lake is the oldest lake on the continent. It has been inhabited for thousands of years. California has the biggest birds in the northern hemisphere, California Condors, the largest and tallest trees in the world, (Coast Redwoods and Sequoias) and the oldest (non-clonal bristlecone pines oldest in the world . This state is a remarkable place in diversity has the most diverse ecosystem probably in the world. It's a beautiful magical place.
I was hoping this film would mention that the San Francisco Bay waters receded and rose about 7 times over the past 100,000 years. Until about 20,000 years ago, the Bay was a vast river valley with marshes, going all the way out to the Farallon Islands. I was hoping the narrator would talk about who lived there and there would be illustrations.
@@WorldChronicles1 Have you chronicled the vast and expansive ancient "Berkeley Walls" or "East Bay Walls" of California? These are extremely long and low ancient stacked-rock walls that extend for miles, similar to the low outlining property and pasture stacked-rock walls of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, etc. However, the distinct type of construction and design of the Berkeley Walls matches most closely with those found in MONGOLIA !!! From the historical accounts and records of the early Spanish and European explorers and settlers who arrived on the Western American coastline, they were told by the indigenous native Indians of this California area that these rock walls were not theirs and were "already there" from a previous people and culture, and were not built by their immediate native American Indian ancestors.
Once a great continent lay to the West of and encroaching on California, Lemuria. Mt. Shasta, one of the 7 Sacred Mountains of the world and the root chakra, is considered to have had an underground civilization of Lemurians.
Thanks you for this interesting video on ancient history of California. USA needs to teach pre- colonial history of America in the schools so that citizens have better understanding of North America. Such objective information as this videos shows us facts that ancient Americans had high civilization and were not primitive tribals as so many new literature make us believe…..
There was still a huge shell mound near the shore of San Francisco Bay when my late Mom was a child. This area has been been developed and is now Shell-mound Street in Alameda.
𝙸 like that this video focuses on acorns as a staple food, but 𝙸 think it should further explain the ways oak trees and woodlands were managed by indigenous societies. Evidence of these practices still exist in "heritage" oak trees that were purposefully burned in order to increase acorn production and kill weevils. The practices themselves are still used in the management of oak woodlands for the same purpose as well as preventing major wildfires and long term carbon sequestration.
This is amazing! As a Californian and someone who’s been to many of the places you’ve talked about. I have even found a couple artifacts myself. I’ve actually learned so much watching this video even with the minimal amount of research I did I still could not find nearly any of the information that you provided in this video. Thank you!
Please don’t move artifacts from where you find them . That’s one of the only ways we can identify our village sites and sacred places . If you want to to know more there are a few small museums who do great work : Chumash Indian museum in Thousand Oaks is a great resource in SoCal .
Does anyone know if the chukansi tribe in madera inhabited the madera ranchos? My grandparents ranch has a hudge rock with a few bowls pitted in them. No other rock near it has that. I’ve always wondered if they may have been used by natives.
We'll see just how temporarily. Tulare Lake used to be the southernmost spawning area of chinook salmon, and was a very rich source of food - elk and other species. Isn't that worth more than some almonds or cotton grown for export?
Agreed. Gray Whales travel closer to the shores of CA during their migration north, along with their calfs, hiding from killer whales. I can totally see then hunting the baby whales
Great video! It's so hard to find accessible information on the pre-contact native cultures of California for whatever reason. I grew up in the Mojave desert at the intersection of historic Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, Serrano, and Tataviam peoples' homelands and was essentially a long established trading post of sorts. It's especially difficult to find information on the smaller tribes like the Tataviam. Thanks for shining a spotlight on a topic that is surprisingly not discussed as often as it should be.
Ventura County Californian, here! Love love love this video so much! Growing up I always wondered about the people who lived here long before us. I have a small boulder with evidence of being used as a grinding stone that I pulled out of a local riverbed (was afraid that the homeless would spray paint or destroy it). This stone also has a spectacular cluster of fossilized gastropods on the surface. I imagine an old Chumash woman using her treasured fossil decorated grinding stone to process acorns. Must have washed down from the mountains during our seasonal flash floods.
The data on this continues to be disputed. A majority of archeologists feel those bones became damaged by sediment compaction and weight or damage from construction equipment.
This is awesome, great info and well presented. I love seeing this side of the native californian lifestyle pre colonization. Too many people just want to focus on the genocide and gold rush era, thats like the most horrific and boring part. 99% of our history was beautiful and deserves remembering not just the bad parts.
We use to own wilderness land in Mendocino County just east of the Covelo, Pomo, reservation. We were thrilled when we found a chert/flint arrowhead there once, it’s a treasure that will go to a local museum eventually.
My father, now in his 90's, lived in Hughson CA as he grew up. When he was plowing he said that native pots would get stuck on to the tip of the plow. He would get frustrated, need to stop working, and remove them. Makes one wonder how much history was erased by "modern" farming practices.
Loved the vid!Always interested in California prehistory. Would love to see this presentation done in terms of a time line, on a map. ie, all sites at 9k BP and their duration. Then 8k BP and so on, while removing those no longer inhabited. Would be interesting to see the demographics, with population and location changes. Thanx!
Glad you liked the video! And that sounds like an excellent idea. I’ll be sure to look into doing that for the prehistory of California and perhaps for other regions of North America as well
There are rock paintings around, & squirrells bring artefacts/burials to the surface. my horse loves acorns. the hills & mountains are pocked with grinding rocks everywhere.
Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego: 1n 1992 I had lived in SD for 5 years. I remember the news of this find. Over 5-6 months Dr. Richard Cerutti (and others) excavated a mammoth skeleton found during machine excavation for a road construction site. There are clear evidence of stone tool use alongside numerous anvil and hammer stones. In 2014 Uranium-Thorium dating places the date at 130,000 before present. What was the climate like at that time? How far away was the pacific shore line?
What was California called?? There was an ad where a tribe called it Olioli or something, but I didnt find any sources to it. So idk if they were faking it for Prop # or just to be in the ad.
I've lived in California for 60 years. I had no idea there were so many native tribes. You hear about Miwok, Pomo, Mono, and Modoc. The other 96, not so much. Thank you for the video.
It’s interesting that you never thought to educate yourself? There are many descendants of those tribes still around, to say nothing about the vestiges of their culture in place names, street names, museums, historic sites, cultural events, etc. etc.
In south stockton off on highway 99, there is a big mound and I always wondered if the area was onced a home to the indigenous. I always wonder what is under it.
Blue oaks, valley oaks, coastal live oaks, canyon live oaks, interior live oaks, oracle oaks, jolan oaks, black oaks, Oregon white oaks, red oaks, northern pin oaks, scrub oaks, Holly oaks, and tannoaks(which aren't true oaks) are some of the oak species I've seen
Thank you for this! I am from Tennessee and living in California now. In Tennessee we know so much about the Cherokee culture and many names, including Tennessee itself are Cherokee names. I have been wondering who was in CA before Europeans. It's like they never existed here.
There were 120 separate languages spoken in California, many completely unrelated, and a similar variety of ethnicities. The population was huge but so complex that it's not easy to package into a simple narrative. So it gets ignored.
@@jamesdoyle2769 That makes sense but it's weird the lack of anything even named an indigenous name until you get to Mexico or Arizona. It's not talked about here but I know the Big Sur region had a lot of grisly bears. I wonder if that kept people away.
@@andrewjones9991 There are indigenous place names all over the US and California is no exception, though often they come through Spanish pretty mangles. Grizzlies - there were so many grizzlies in the flat area where Monterey is now that when the Spanish got there, no none could live there. Big Sur probably couldn't support a very large population of grizzlies. What it did have was a small population of Esselen people who had once been more numerous and widespread, until the area was settled four or five thousand years ago by speakers of Utian languages, the Mutsun and Rumsen and so on. (Unrelated to the Esselen)
@@jamesdoyle2769 Duly noted. In comparison to Tennessee I don't see a lot. Maybe I'm just not recognizing the indigenous names because they're mangled as you put it. I'm still learning. I admit my ignorance about California pre-Europeans settling it. That's why I'm watching this.Thanks for the info!
@@andrewjones9991there's many Native named places in California, just gets overlooked. Just to name a few here in the LA area: Topanga, Azuza, Tujunga, Cahuenga, Pacoima, Castaic and the more recognizable like Malibu, Pismo Beach (SLO county) and Temecula (IE). There's also many counties and cities with names of Native origin.
I would have enjoyed more discussion about Clear Lake in Lake County, the first of the two earliest sites of human habitation, the second being Tulare Lake.
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There are many underwater sites in California which can go date back to 11,000 years
Years ago I used to hike around Cuyamaca and Palomar in SD county; would find acorn mortor bowls carved into the rock outcrops. It really gave a new perspective to who was there before and how they lived.
I grew up in California, and we were taught CA history. I don’t remember every thing, but I remember how hard it was to get nutrition out of acorns - chopping and rinsing and rinsing and rinsing, then more crushing and rinsing.
Great video. We find buried shell piles all over Monterey Bay area. It was something all of the coastal natives did, seemingly world wide never heard a good explanation why. Not to pick knits but Tulare is pronounced like it ends with a y. Too lare y.
I’ve hiked all around the watershed that starts in San Lucia Mtns on Hunter Ligget/ Hearst Castle and runs down through Lake Nacimiento to the Salinas River. There is Native Indian relics all over the place. Heavy rains always uncover new stuff. This area is still flush with wildlife, deer, pigs, turkey, quail, rabbits, fish, acorns. Must have been amazing a thousand years ago.
i always remember as a kid thinking the valleys were once underwater, you can tell by their strange formations, hiking trails you can see many of the acorn trees mentioned in the video. it’s amazing how they were able to thrive in such a dramatically changing environment.
Wow, excellent and thorough. In the 5th grade, my class did reports on California Indians, I got the Chumash. Just a future note: Tulare=Tu-lair-ee, Diablo=Dee-ah-blo. Thankfully no mention of Ventura😊
I lived for a while in Pisco, Peru. I recall hearing that the Chincha empire, which is from that area, were excellent seafarers, and there was hard evidence they traded with peoples as far away as modern-day Mexico. Makes me wonder if they made it a little farther north, to what we call California. edit: probably not so? Seems like if there were trade, you'd oak trees pop up near the coast. I just looked up oak tree distribution, looks like there is only one specie in South America, but in Colombia, and it has very different growing conditions. The species Quercus humboldtii. It's pretty amazing how Alexander Von Humboldt's name shows up everywhere.
Thanks so much for this video. Pen-uti-an comes from the word /pen/ for "two" in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages of the Sacramento Valley, Butte County, and the San Joaquin Valley, respectively, and the word /uti/ for "two" in the Miwok and Ohlone/Costanoan languages of the Bay/Sierra and south Bay/Monterey Bay, respectively. It was expanded by Edward Sapir in 1916 & 1929 to include the following seven language families, departing California heading north: Plateau (Klamath and Nez Percé & Sahaptin), the Takelma language (e.g., Cow Creek Umpqua), the Kalapuya language (+Willamette & Yoncalla), Coosan (Hanis + Miluk, extinct), the Siuslaw language (Upper Umpqua), Alsean, and Chinookan; as well as the Tsimshian family (incl. Nisga'a & Gitksan) of northwest British Columbia. (Sapir also included Mixe-Zoqué and Huave, but it seems basically no one went with this.) Hokan comes from the word /xwak/ for "two" in some families of California and Baja California: Karuk, Washo, Pomoan, Yuman, Seri, Tequistlatecan, and Jicaquean, as well as the extinct families Shasta-Palaihnihan, Chimariko, Yana, Esselen, Selinan, Coahuilteco, and Comecrudan. Several Athabaskan languages (related to Navajo) and two Algic languages (related to Algonquian), namely Wiyot and Yurok, are also found in California, as well as Yuki and Wappo of the Redwood Valley & Alexander Valley, respectively. Yuki-Wappo is a grouping accepted by some and rejected by some; it may be the result of two languages with different origins living next to each other for millennia.
Love the video but I think your final few lines are completely wrong and offensieve. California natives did not have "conflict" with American settlers. Their ways of life weren't just "disrupted". It was not a passive event and your language surrounding it is genocide denial. One of the most thorough genocides of all time wiped out almost all of them in a ~12 year period after the Mexican-American War. Californian natives, who had at not point fired a shot or fought a war with Americans, were immediately upon introduction hunted like wild game. American Miners and Settlers typically shot any and all natives they saw on sight. The first Governor of California declared a "War of Anihilation" against the natives at the outset of his term. The majority of Californian Native tribes would be completely wiped out from 1848-1860. The few that were spared were tyically reduced by about 90% from their pre-war population and then were settled in the desert far from their homes, without any means of sustaining themselves, where they would languish is deep poverty for decades and decades. What was in 1848 one of the densest and most diverse populatinos of Native Americans in North America today now reside in a handful of typically microscopic reservations. There was no war. California natives scored no victories against settlers. They did not scalp Americans and many of them still had bows and arrows. Most of them had no means to resist at all. It was substantially more intense and violent than the settlement process in most other places. You might as well talk about Jews having "conflict" with the Nazis who "disrupted" their way of life. Stating it in those terms is completely wrong.
Haven't watched the whole video yet, so before I forget, just wanted to point out the East Bay Rock Walls, or the walls at Ed Levin County Park. The origin of these man made stone walls are a mystery, dating back ~200 years. Just wanted to point out something local that's not super well known.
The desert in southeastern California is almost all the Mojave Desert, some of which is high in elevation and some of which is low, very low. Plutonic rocks dominate the Mojave. The Colorado Desert is a sedimentary complex that barely touches California. Most of The Colorado Plateau also has significant elevation and tips downward to the west. The Basin & Range is another desert system, mostly in Nevada, that touches on the other two deserts, Colorado and Mojave. The land formations of the Basin & Range are thought to be the product of tectonic activity stretching out the North American plate or, in other words, of California's descent into the sea.
@@tlst94 Theoretically, California was cooler, wetter, and flatter at one time. The dramatic elevation changes come from it being on a major plate boundary. These elevation changes create deserts via something called the "rain shadow" effect. Otherwise, and maybe in the future, California would look like Ireland.
The catalina island shell mixer.
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Lots ancient stuff on Catalina.
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Thank you for this video! No one ever talks about California native americans.
If you’re from California you definitely learned about this. All of 4th grade was history about California with an emphasis on Native American treatment and the Mission system. We even had a final project on a Mission of our choosing. Then I learned about it again in high school with more minority groups that were mistreated. Finally I took several classes in college that went even more in depth with far more graphic details.
I have researched and engaged with historians and native people to realize that the California history is older and more developed than anywhere in the U.S. I hope to reveal this at the upcoming 2028 Olympics with a historical kiosk at the new Hollywood Entertainment District. This reveals more Natural climate opportunities than anywhere. We just need to rid of BAD humans running the government here.
@@UnlimitedEmeraldsbut the mission stuff was mostly about the Spanish and how they forcefully assimilated native peoples. We never hear stuff like this - a thriving community of cultures at their prime
Nobody talks about all Natives being from Asia.
He did them no justice 💩
No one mentions the millions of birds that show up every fall in the central valley. They must have been a major food source.
What kind of birds?
"The skies were dark with birds, the rivers boiled with fish, and grizzlies were everywhere" That how I saw California described when the Spanish came.
@@Jo-vu1me Geese and ducks. I live on the San Joaquin Delta in Central California. They caught them with nets.
@@AntonioPeralesdelHierroa true garden of Eden
Pigeons could black out the sky for hours
As a Californian I appreciate this video 😊
That’s awesome! I hope more Californians see this
@@WorldChronicles1 Here's another. And thank you!
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@@jamesdoyle2769 You're welcome!
@@WorldChronicles1As a California native from the Sierra Nevada foothills I appreciate this video #MonoNative #Nuem
My dad said that when they first got here to Northern California from Texas in the mid 60’s. That when they would work the fields with the tractors that they would uncover those rocks they would use to grind the grains
Yup!
Nice info !
I live near red bluff California they are all over around here to this day.
im in the middle of the sacramento valley and have seen tons of the bolo rocks, havent found any of the ones for grinding grains yet unfortunately.
@@thomasmorris134 my mom and dad still have a few of them by the fireplace
California was so rich in acorns, game, and fish that this is one of the few places in the world where hunter gatherers lived in permanent villages. There was no need to farm. And the only domesticated animals were dogs.
it's called horticulture! that was the practice for most indigenous californians
Chatel Hoyuk, in Anatolia, is another place like that, one of the world's first towns. They had a steady supply of shellfish, fish and pistachio trees.
I wish to try some of that acorn bread
You are mistaken, Tulare lake is gone, they drained it to make farmland. Occasionally comes back if theres a very wet winter.
Yes, I believe that the US Govt. sold the marshland for $1 per acre and for every acre turned into farmland they got a $1 rebate. So essentially free land if you converted to farmland.
We also pronounce it "Too - Larry" 😀
I know. How stupid not to know this. I know and am not anywhere near the state.
As a Miwuk that lives in California and grew up in near Yosemite. I appreciate this video. You should look into the Mariposa war.
Hello miwuk brother! Sonora resident here
Glad you liked the video. I'll look into that topic
My family is from Mariposa, I love being up there.
I like your tribes teepee designs
How are modern Miwuk doing?
I’m Tataviam and Chumash from LA … thanks for shedding some light on the long history this land and our people .
You are welcome!
Chumash are an amazing group. How are they doing nowadays in the 2020s?
@@DM5550Z They have adapted to the casino life.
Anybody here ever been to Indian Meadows in northeastern California near the pit River it's a large large large meadow that housed anywhere between 50 to 300 individuals over 500 years after a rain you can walk around the field and find Arrowhead spear points you can't walk or take a step without stepping on obsidian shards all the boulders along the river have holes in the boulders for grinding acorns this is a very very special place that's why I won't tell you exactly where it is
The same type mounds of shells are also found in Brazil, archaeologists there call them “Sambaquis”. It’s everywhere along the Brazilian coast.
Some California Native people that I know are pulling ancient S. American DNA. Perhaps one day they make a connection? The migration was sometimes from south to north and not just over a land bridge. The ancient natives were a seafaring people.
That's cool. They're everywhere in Japan too and we call them Kaizuka which transliteration is "shell mound". We learn about these prehistoric mounds found throughout Japan in middle school.
Cool fact: In Ancient Japan there was a shell mound found far from any sort of seashore. Since geological changes in the landscape/sealine due to the post-ice age climate change weren't known at the time, the rationalization that was commonly accepted and integrated with the local folklore was that these shell mounds were used by the Giants that lived in the area that are able to cross long distances due to their size 😅 (FYI Oogushi Kaizuka/大串貝塚 is the modern name of that shell mound and the legend of Daidarabotchi ダイダラボッチ is the specific Giant folklore.)
The oak tree at the beginning looks like it may have been coppiced when much smaller. Recommended book: "Tending the Wild", by Kat Anderson. Native people were active landscape shapers and managers for millennia. "There was no need for agriculture". The "agriculture" was there, just dispersed.
interesting!
We are now applying some of those lessons from indigenous peoples to our parks and forest management like controlled burns for instance. Europeans thought California was a paradise. They didn't know it was largely due to sophisticated and careful managing of the land.
Thank you for the recommendation. Foraging mushrooms, leafy greens, kelp, shellfish, fowl, berries and game in relatively close proximity meant low incentives to farm. I was told fire was used to manage hunting grounds. I have first hand sight petroglyphs at sea level in Tiburon and all the way to top of Sierras past Tahoe. They may not have left as much ceramics but their specialties included basket weaving and the processing of other foods as needed. The mountains may have reduced trade beyond coast which could explain less art sophistication or complexity by standards of Spanish Empire.
I happened across a huge sight in Monterrey. I found a massive abalone pile that was unearthed by our recent heavy rains. I was taken back bye it.
You should report that to like UC Berkeley
Also look up the vast and expansive ancient "Berkeley Walls" or "East Bay Walls" of California.
These are extremely long and low ancient stacked-rock walls that extend for miles, similar to the low outlining property and pasture stacked-rock walls of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales,.etc.
However, the distinct type of construction and design of the Berkeley Walls matches most closely with those found in MONGOLIA !!!
From the historical accounts and records of the early Spanish and European explorers and settlers who arrived on the Western American coastline, they were told by the indigenous native Indians of this California area that these rock walls were not theirs and were "already there" from a previous people and culture, and were not built by their immediate native American Indian ancestors.
I believe Clear Lake in Lake County is considered the oldest natural lake in the northwest. 480,000 years old. Stands to reason it would have been inhabited very early. Estimates are approx 11,800 years ago for the Pomo.
Lake Tulare is basically a mud pit most of the time
Yup 👍
Lots of obsidian up there too
Mt. Konocti is so beautiful
Clear Lake is the oldest lake on the continent. It has been inhabited for thousands of years. California has the biggest birds in the northern hemisphere, California Condors, the largest and tallest trees in the world, (Coast Redwoods and Sequoias) and the oldest (non-clonal bristlecone pines oldest in the world . This state is a remarkable place in diversity has the most diverse ecosystem probably in the world. It's a beautiful magical place.
One of my best friends is from the Chumash Tribe. I really enjoyed your fascinating documentary. Thank you.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it
I learned that I am 19% Chumash on my grandmothers side.
@@WorldChronicles1 I really enjoy your videos. We need to explore more about the New World since it is not so “new.” 😆🥹🤣
@@danielruiz3443 Nice!!! And you live in California?
As a Pomo, I'm glad California natives are getting some attention
I was hoping this film would mention that the San Francisco Bay waters receded and rose about 7 times over the past 100,000 years. Until about 20,000 years ago, the Bay was a vast river valley with marshes, going all the way out to the Farallon Islands. I was hoping the narrator would talk about who lived there and there would be illustrations.
I'm going to try to cover that in a future video. Thanks for bringing this to my attention
I second this motion. It's actually why I clicked on the video.
Don't forget Arlington Springs Man found on Santa Rosa Island dating back to at least 13000 years ago. Maybe older.
I covered those remains in my "Prehistoric Settlement of North America" video
@@WorldChronicles1Coming with receipts!
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Have you chronicled the vast and expansive ancient "Berkeley Walls" or "East Bay Walls" of California?
These are extremely long and low ancient stacked-rock walls that extend for miles, similar to the low outlining property and pasture stacked-rock walls of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, etc.
However, the distinct type of construction and design of the Berkeley Walls matches most closely with those found in MONGOLIA !!!
From the historical accounts and records of the early Spanish and European explorers and settlers who arrived on the Western American coastline, they were told by the indigenous native Indians of this California area that these rock walls were not theirs and were "already there" from a previous people and culture, and were not built by their immediate native American Indian ancestors.
@@bbfoto7248fascinating! I’ll research that! Appreciate the information!
Once a great continent lay to the West of and encroaching on California, Lemuria. Mt. Shasta, one of the 7 Sacred Mountains of the world and the root chakra, is considered to have had an underground civilization of Lemurians.
Thank you! For hundreds of tribes over thousands of years amazingly little has been learned about the early people of California.👍
Thanks you for this interesting video on ancient history of California. USA needs to teach pre- colonial history of America in the schools so that citizens have better understanding of North America. Such objective information as this videos shows us facts that ancient Americans had high civilization and were not primitive tribals as so many new literature make us believe…..
@@ogathingo8885 Studying the original peoples of old also gives insight into managing the land.
The lake is pronounced Too-larry I live in this area and have found many native American artifacts over the years great video thanks
Wuuuuut.... Tulare? It's not Too-lair??? 😭 as a Californian, I'm embarrassed.
At 4:27 the picture showen with the huts ... In the center just over between 2 huts I see a power telephone/cable pole,,?
There was still a huge shell mound near the shore of San Francisco Bay when my late Mom was a child. This area has been been developed and is now Shell-mound Street in Alameda.
Amazing how they always name a street or district after what they destroyed isn’t it ?
Also on Emeryville and I believe Berkelry
@@shogunloophole8816 Have you driven down "My Pride" Street yet? 😅
I'm from Santa Cruz. on a construction site I unearthed a spear point or knife. we had the Olones here. Thanks for this video!
𝙸 like that this video focuses on acorns as a staple food, but 𝙸 think it should further explain the ways oak trees and woodlands were managed by indigenous societies. Evidence of these practices still exist in "heritage" oak trees that were purposefully burned in order to increase acorn production and kill weevils. The practices themselves are still used in the management of oak woodlands for the same purpose as well as preventing major wildfires and long term carbon sequestration.
It’s incredible to see such kindness and love. Thank you all!
Well done. First video I've found covering this subject in depth - well done! Thank you.
Thanks, and you are welcome
This is amazing! As a Californian and someone who’s been to many of the places you’ve talked about. I have even found a couple artifacts myself. I’ve actually learned so much watching this video even with the minimal amount of research I did I still could not find nearly any of the information that you provided in this video. Thank you!
Please don’t move artifacts from where you find them . That’s one of the only ways we can identify our village sites and sacred places . If you want to to know more there are a few small museums who do great work : Chumash Indian museum in Thousand Oaks is a great resource in SoCal .
Does anyone know if the chukansi tribe in madera inhabited the madera ranchos? My grandparents ranch has a hudge rock with a few bowls pitted in them. No other rock near it has that. I’ve always wondered if they may have been used by natives.
Lake Tulare is a cotton plantation. Its flooded right now but temporarily.
You don't know anything imma yokut
We'll see just how temporarily. Tulare Lake used to be the southernmost spawning area of chinook salmon, and was a very rich source of food - elk and other species. Isn't that worth more than some almonds or cotton grown for export?
Farmers drained the lake. Pistachio trees have been planted. They will fight like hell to stop the lake. It's sad.
@@jamesdoyle2769it’s shallow and receding but still there after the wet winters the last 2 years :)
I live in Carpinteria which was basically a Native American canoe repair shop due to the abundance of natural tar and oil.
Hence the Spanish title : carpenteria
This was a really cool video, especially from such a small channel. Deserving of a like and follow.
Thanks!
No way these guys just waited for whales to beach themselves, they must have hunted them
We need to stop hunting all animals!
@@panatypicalmove into the wild and do it
@@panatypicalhow does that make sense? We are biologically engineered to hunt animals, knock it off goofy.
Agreed. Gray Whales travel closer to the shores of CA during their migration north, along with their calfs, hiding from killer whales. I can totally see then hunting the baby whales
@@panatypical why
Great video! It's so hard to find accessible information on the pre-contact native cultures of California for whatever reason. I grew up in the Mojave desert at the intersection of historic Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, Serrano, and Tataviam peoples' homelands and was essentially a long established trading post of sorts. It's especially difficult to find information on the smaller tribes like the Tataviam. Thanks for shining a spotlight on a topic that is surprisingly not discussed as often as it should be.
Thanks, glad you liked the video. And you are welcome!
Ventura County Californian, here! Love love love this video so much! Growing up I always wondered about the people who lived here long before us. I have a small boulder with evidence of being used as a grinding stone that I pulled out of a local riverbed (was afraid that the homeless would spray paint or destroy it). This stone also has a spectacular cluster of fossilized gastropods on the surface. I imagine an old Chumash woman using her treasured fossil decorated grinding stone to process acorns. Must have washed down from the mountains during our seasonal flash floods.
There is a Chumash cultural center in Thousand Oaks … you can take it there for preservation and display
Awesome video, I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you for sharing! 👍👍👏👏
New Pre-Clovis site in Chula Vista San Diego by Fwy- 120k years dated, being hushed as usual
Don't forget the mammoth remains with tool marks
The data on this continues to be disputed. A majority of archeologists feel those bones became damaged by sediment compaction and weight or damage from construction equipment.
The dates will continue to be pushed back
Really good! I was born in SF and am always interested in the Native American History of CA.
Google Valentin Lopez : awesome tribal leader near you
This is awesome, great info and well presented. I love seeing this side of the native californian lifestyle pre colonization. Too many people just want to focus on the genocide and gold rush era, thats like the most horrific and boring part. 99% of our history was beautiful and deserves remembering not just the bad parts.
Excellent presentation. Thank you for the hard work it took to make this enlightened video.
We use to own wilderness land in Mendocino County just east of the Covelo, Pomo, reservation. We were thrilled when we found a chert/flint arrowhead there once, it’s a treasure that will go to a local museum eventually.
Yoo your vids are the best
My father, now in his 90's, lived in Hughson CA as he grew up. When he was plowing he said that native pots would get stuck on to the tip of the plow. He would get frustrated, need to stop working, and remove them. Makes one wonder how much history was erased by "modern" farming practices.
Loved the vid!Always interested in California prehistory. Would love to see this presentation done in terms of a time line, on a map. ie, all sites at 9k BP and their duration. Then 8k BP and so on, while removing those no longer inhabited. Would be interesting to see the demographics, with population and location changes.
Thanx!
Glad you liked the video! And that sounds like an excellent idea. I’ll be sure to look into doing that for the prehistory of California and perhaps for other regions of North America as well
@WorldChronicles1
Thanks for the mention! Growing up in California, we have very little, publicized history of it. So it's nice to hear.!
Kumeyaay Native here!
This content is so helpful and informative, thank you!!!!
You are welcome!
There are rock paintings around, & squirrells bring artefacts/burials to the surface. my horse loves acorns. the hills & mountains are pocked with grinding rocks everywhere.
I loved this! Thank you!
Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego:
1n 1992 I had lived in SD for 5 years. I remember the news of this find.
Over 5-6 months Dr. Richard Cerutti (and others) excavated a mammoth skeleton found during machine excavation for a road construction site.
There are clear evidence of stone tool use alongside numerous anvil and hammer stones.
In 2014 Uranium-Thorium dating places the date at 130,000 before present.
What was the climate like at that time? How far away was the pacific shore line?
What was California called?? There was an ad where a tribe called it Olioli or something, but I didnt find any sources to it. So idk if they were faking it for Prop # or just to be in the ad.
I've lived in California for 60 years. I had no idea there were so many native tribes. You hear about Miwok, Pomo, Mono, and Modoc. The other 96, not so much. Thank you for the video.
The Patwin tribe lived in my area. I live Suisun City. Suisun is a Patwin word that means west wind.
Sad but true : much of our history is glossed over and most of those hundred tribes remain unrecognized by the federal government and landless
You are welcome!
Listen to graham hancock and also go and interview some of them natives and they might tell you the land bridge “theory” has been debunked.
It’s interesting that you never thought to educate yourself? There are many descendants of those tribes still around, to say nothing about the vestiges of their culture in place names, street names, museums, historic sites, cultural events, etc. etc.
Uhm, lake Tulare is considered a dead lake. It came back for the first time in over 100 years 2 years ago but it’s dried up again
Tulare (Too-larry) Lake.
This guy is ready some prepared text. Probably a.i.
Two larrys and a moe.
I've always pronounced it Too-lare, like too-bare.
Came here to say this too
Too lair ee
Lol
@@daltonsband
Tillary von shonud
17:10 what kind of acorns did they use to make that guy's shampoo?
Actually they used clay to shampoo their hair
In south stockton off on highway 99, there is a big mound and I always wondered if the area was onced a home to the indigenous. I always wonder what is under it.
Blue oaks, valley oaks, coastal live oaks, canyon live oaks, interior live oaks, oracle oaks, jolan oaks, black oaks, Oregon white oaks, red oaks, northern pin oaks, scrub oaks, Holly oaks, and tannoaks(which aren't true oaks) are some of the oak species I've seen
I think more is missing here. I have found a lot of stone point Productions areas along highway 395 in the Southern end of the sierras.
Piute possibly Serrano/tataviam … 395 is built on old trade routes
Chumash plank canoes and plank surfboards for Humalewu Malibu= where the surf sounds loudly
Humaliwo. No 'an kał 'aliwałyam loka ikmen, no 'an kałnuna mitsqanaqan.
Thank you for this! I am from Tennessee and living in California now. In Tennessee we know so much about the Cherokee culture and many names, including Tennessee itself are Cherokee names. I have been wondering who was in CA before Europeans. It's like they never existed here.
There were 120 separate languages spoken in California, many completely unrelated, and a similar variety of ethnicities. The population was huge but so complex that it's not easy to package into a simple narrative. So it gets ignored.
@@jamesdoyle2769 That makes sense but it's weird the lack of anything even named an indigenous name until you get to Mexico or Arizona. It's not talked about here but I know the Big Sur region had a lot of grisly bears. I wonder if that kept people away.
@@andrewjones9991 There are indigenous place names all over the US and California is no exception, though often they come through Spanish pretty mangles.
Grizzlies - there were so many grizzlies in the flat area where Monterey is now that when the Spanish got there, no none could live there. Big Sur probably couldn't support a very large population of grizzlies. What it did have was a small population of Esselen people who had once been more numerous and widespread, until the area was settled four or five thousand years ago by speakers of Utian languages, the Mutsun and Rumsen and so on. (Unrelated to the Esselen)
@@jamesdoyle2769 Duly noted. In comparison to Tennessee I don't see a lot. Maybe I'm just not recognizing the indigenous names because they're mangled as you put it. I'm still learning. I admit my ignorance about California pre-Europeans settling it. That's why I'm watching this.Thanks for the info!
@@andrewjones9991there's many Native named places in California, just gets overlooked.
Just to name a few here in the LA area:
Topanga, Azuza, Tujunga, Cahuenga, Pacoima, Castaic and the more recognizable like Malibu, Pismo Beach (SLO county) and Temecula (IE). There's also many counties and cities with names of Native origin.
I would have enjoyed more discussion about Clear Lake in Lake County, the first of the two earliest sites of human habitation, the second being Tulare Lake.
There are many underwater sites in California which can go date back to 11,000 years
The dates will continue to be pushed back !
I love my home California
thank you for making this video and not spreading propaganda
Years ago I used to hike around Cuyamaca and Palomar in SD county; would find acorn mortor bowls carved into the rock outcrops. It really gave a new perspective to who was there before and how they lived.
Is the scholarship on this topic open to volunteers? I'd love to help with the data aspects
Nice work thanks.
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Great Video. Very informative. How to solve this water crisis though?
There are also shell middens in the Pismo Dunes. Gee, I wonder what they were eating there?
Pismo clams...?
Pismu is Chumash for clam which where it gets the name
I tried to pay my California taxes using seashells but sadly they didn’t accept them.
Lol. Only accepting gold bars now
Cool vid man thanks
Cool video, I lived in Butte County for 20 years.
I grew up in California, and we were taught CA history. I don’t remember every thing, but I remember how hard it was to get nutrition out of acorns - chopping and rinsing and rinsing and rinsing, then more crushing and rinsing.
Great video. We find buried shell piles all over Monterey Bay area. It was something all of the coastal natives did, seemingly world wide never heard a good explanation why. Not to pick knits but Tulare is pronounced like it ends with a y. Too lare y.
He also slaughtered Cahuilla 😂😂😂
Awesome video! Here in California’s Central Valley we pronounce Tulare “too-leh-ree” kinda like Too Larry
dude where did you get these amazing map graphics??
I’ve hiked all around the watershed that starts in San Lucia Mtns on Hunter Ligget/ Hearst Castle and runs down through Lake Nacimiento to the Salinas River. There is Native Indian relics all over the place. Heavy rains always uncover new stuff. This area is still flush with wildlife, deer, pigs, turkey, quail, rabbits, fish, acorns. Must have been amazing a thousand years ago.
You really know how to pack a wealth of knowledge into a 30 minute video. Well done.
Thanks!
another great vid man
Central coast mentioned 💪
0:19 I just recognized the name Chumash from GTA 5, it was supposed to be Los Santos' version of Malibu
Tataviam hills also !
What about the Laguna women found in Laguna Niguel? I thought she was dated back 15,000 years ago ?
Love your content… please do a nice long video on the first humans in the Northeast/New England 😬 really though, great videos man!!
Ok, I'll add that to my list of topics to cover!
@@WorldChronicles1 Thank you! I’ll definitely keep my eyes peeled! Thank you for the great content my friend.
Nice video👍👍 crazy how i been living CA all my life and I’m barely seeing this lol
Yea most people just think it was a part of Mexico sadly … check out the Chumash Indian museum if you’re in LA area
i always remember as a kid thinking the valleys were once underwater, you can tell by their strange formations, hiking trails you can see many of the acorn trees mentioned in the video. it’s amazing how they were able to thrive in such a dramatically changing environment.
Many once were probably. The whole terraced forest in Mendocino marches up from the ocean on shelves of what were once ocean bottom and beaches.
Wow, excellent and thorough. In the 5th grade, my class did reports on California Indians, I got the Chumash. Just a future note: Tulare=Tu-lair-ee, Diablo=Dee-ah-blo. Thankfully no mention of Ventura😊
California was so rich in resources that it had the highest population density of Native Americans any place north of Mexico before Columbus.
I lived for a while in Pisco, Peru. I recall hearing that the Chincha empire, which is from that area, were excellent seafarers, and there was hard evidence they traded with peoples as far away as modern-day Mexico. Makes me wonder if they made it a little farther north, to what we call California.
edit: probably not so? Seems like if there were trade, you'd oak trees pop up near the coast. I just looked up oak tree distribution, looks like there is only one specie in South America, but in Colombia, and it has very different growing conditions. The species Quercus humboldtii. It's pretty amazing how Alexander Von Humboldt's name shows up everywhere.
How was the surf tho?
Here in Sonoma Co CA! Much love to all my Pomo friends!
Thanks so much for this video. Pen-uti-an comes from the word /pen/ for "two" in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages of the Sacramento Valley, Butte County, and the San Joaquin Valley, respectively, and the word /uti/ for "two" in the Miwok and Ohlone/Costanoan languages of the Bay/Sierra and south Bay/Monterey Bay, respectively. It was expanded by Edward Sapir in 1916 & 1929 to include the following seven language families, departing California heading north: Plateau (Klamath and Nez Percé & Sahaptin), the Takelma language (e.g., Cow Creek Umpqua), the Kalapuya language (+Willamette & Yoncalla), Coosan (Hanis + Miluk, extinct), the Siuslaw language (Upper Umpqua), Alsean, and Chinookan; as well as the Tsimshian family (incl. Nisga'a & Gitksan) of northwest British Columbia. (Sapir also included Mixe-Zoqué and Huave, but it seems basically no one went with this.)
Hokan comes from the word /xwak/ for "two" in some families of California and Baja California: Karuk, Washo, Pomoan, Yuman, Seri, Tequistlatecan, and Jicaquean, as well as the extinct families Shasta-Palaihnihan, Chimariko, Yana, Esselen, Selinan, Coahuilteco, and Comecrudan.
Several Athabaskan languages (related to Navajo) and two Algic languages (related to Algonquian), namely Wiyot and Yurok, are also found in California, as well as Yuki and Wappo of the Redwood Valley & Alexander Valley, respectively. Yuki-Wappo is a grouping accepted by some and rejected by some; it may be the result of two languages with different origins living next to each other for millennia.
Amazing history of original inhabitants of north and south America. 👏
Was this narrated by Mr. Van Driessen?
Great video
Love the video but I think your final few lines are completely wrong and offensieve. California natives did not have "conflict" with American settlers. Their ways of life weren't just "disrupted". It was not a passive event and your language surrounding it is genocide denial. One of the most thorough genocides of all time wiped out almost all of them in a ~12 year period after the Mexican-American War. Californian natives, who had at not point fired a shot or fought a war with Americans, were immediately upon introduction hunted like wild game. American Miners and Settlers typically shot any and all natives they saw on sight. The first Governor of California declared a "War of Anihilation" against the natives at the outset of his term. The majority of Californian Native tribes would be completely wiped out from 1848-1860. The few that were spared were tyically reduced by about 90% from their pre-war population and then were settled in the desert far from their homes, without any means of sustaining themselves, where they would languish is deep poverty for decades and decades. What was in 1848 one of the densest and most diverse populatinos of Native Americans in North America today now reside in a handful of typically microscopic reservations. There was no war. California natives scored no victories against settlers. They did not scalp Americans and many of them still had bows and arrows. Most of them had no means to resist at all. It was substantially more intense and violent than the settlement process in most other places.
You might as well talk about Jews having "conflict" with the Nazis who "disrupted" their way of life. Stating it in those terms is completely wrong.
Thank you for stating this
Salinan native💯
Many tools found here on the beach of Cayucos are flaked into the shape of Morro Rock.
I know what beach your talkin about. Out by the pier
Haven't watched the whole video yet, so before I forget, just wanted to point out the East Bay Rock Walls, or the walls at Ed Levin County Park. The origin of these man made stone walls are a mystery, dating back ~200 years. Just wanted to point out something local that's not super well known.
Curious, I’ve heard that there were no major wars between California tribes. Is that true?
The Miwok inspired George Lucas in the name Ewok, as George grew up in the area Miwoks inhabited.
The desert in southeastern California is almost all the Mojave Desert, some of which is high in elevation and some of which is low, very low. Plutonic rocks dominate the Mojave. The Colorado Desert is a sedimentary complex that barely touches California. Most of The Colorado Plateau also has significant elevation and tips downward to the west. The Basin & Range is another desert system, mostly in Nevada, that touches on the other two deserts, Colorado and Mojave. The land formations of the Basin & Range are thought to be the product of tectonic activity stretching out the North American plate or, in other words, of California's descent into the sea.
@@tlst94 Theoretically, California was cooler, wetter, and flatter at one time. The dramatic elevation changes come from it being on a major plate boundary. These elevation changes create deserts via something called the "rain shadow" effect. Otherwise, and maybe in the future, California would look like Ireland.
Anyone have any resources/links to Indigenous people of the americas teaching their own culture in their own words? thank you!