Social+Studies

Wiki's about each region in California, and the Native Americans that lived there.

Coast Valley Desert Mountain

 Important Vocabulary

Native American Links For 5th Graders [|Cheynne] [|Hopi] [|Pawnee] [|Crow] [|Eskimo] More Info about [|Eskimos] [|Karankawa] More infor about [|Karankawa]

For 4th Graders [|Chumash] [|Chumash Info]To find games click on "Myths: Fun" To find weapons click on "Food: Medicine" To find traditions click on "Myths: Fun" To find food click on "Food: Medicine"

[|Hupa] [|Hupa Tradition, Food and Games]Hupa and Yurok White Deerskin Dance and most Tribes perform the Sacred Jump Dance. The purpose of the rituals is to renew the world or “firm the earth”, as one tribe described it. This ceremony includes songs and dances that have been preserved for countless generations. Food: foods, such as acorns, salmon, deer meat and berries Games: players would hide sticks, one specially marked, behind their backs. The opponents would attempt to guess which hand held the marked stick. [|Hupa Weapons]Hupa used the bow and arrow. The arrows were made from obsidian. They carried a lance, sling shots, and small knives made of flint.

[|Miwok Weapons]The weapons employed in fighting were the bow and arrow, and the spear. [|Miwok games]children’s games such as hide-and-seek and tag [|Ceremonies and Beliefs Miwok]These are traditions. [|Leadership and Trading Miwok]Read the whole page

[|Tools & Weapons of the Costanoan]Read the whole page. [|Costanoan] (also called the Ohlone) [|Ceremonies & Religion of the Costanoan]Read the whole page, it describes several tradtions. [|Coastanoan Trade Item]important trade item to the Ohlone was the highly coveted cinnabar which was quarried at the New Almaden area of Santa Clara County. Cinnabar expeditions came from as far away as Walla Walla, Washington to trade or fight for the prized pigment. Included in other important trade goods imported or exported in Ohlone culture were abalone shells, projectile points, obsidian, dogs, tobacco, hides, bows, baskets, salt, acorns, and fish [|Coastanoan Food]Their staple diet consisted of crushed acorns, nuts, grass seeds and berries, while other vegetation, hunted and trapped game, fish and seafood (including mussels and abalone from the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean), were also important to their diet. These food sources were abundant and maintained by careful work (and spiritual respect), and through some active management of all the natural resources at hand.[2] Animals in their mild climate included the grizzly bear, elk (cervus elaphus), antelope, and deer. The streams held salmon, perch, and stickleback. Birds included plentiful ducks, geese, quail, great horned owls, red-shafted flickers, downy woodpeckers, goldfinches, and yellow-billed magpies. Waterfowl were the most important birds in the people's diet, which were captured with nets and decoys. The Chochenyo traditional narratives refer to ducks as food, and Juan Crespi observed in his journal that geese were stuffed and dried "to use as decoys in hunting others."[3] [| 2. Trade Goods]The Chumash Indians of California, U.S.A. also make beads from the purple olive shell that they use as money. The name “Chumash” actually translates to men “bead money makers”.