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    The Costanoan Indians, also known as the Ohlone people, were an indigenous group located in central California between San Francisco and Big Sur. They comprised over 50 small tribes or tribelets, each with 50 to 500 members, who spoke different languages. The Costanoans lived as hunter-gatherers and harvesters, living in dome-shaped huts and utilizing local resources like salmon, mussels, and plants. After European contact, the Costanoan population declined and they were subjected to the Spanish mission system, which disrupted their traditional way of life.

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    The Costanoan Indians, also known as the Ohlone people, were an indigenous group located in central California between San Francisco and Big Sur. They comprised over 50 small tribes or tribelets, each with 50 to 500 members, who spoke different languages. The Costanoans lived as hunter-gatherers and harvesters, living in dome-shaped huts and utilizing local resources like salmon, mussels, and plants. After European contact, the Costanoan population declined and they were subjected to the Spanish mission system, which disrupted their traditional way of life.

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    The Costanoan Indians, also known as the Ohlone people, were an indigenous group located in central California between San Francisco and Big Sur. They comprised over 50 small tribes or tribelets, each with 50 to 500 members, who spoke different languages. The Costanoans lived as hunter-gatherers and harvesters, living in dome-shaped huts and utilizing local resources like salmon, mussels, and plants. After European contact, the Costanoan population declined and they were subjected to the Spanish mission system, which disrupted their traditional way of life.

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    THE COSTANOAN

    INDIANS

    Ohlone

    Shelby Lydon
    A. Andrade
    Span 308 Sem. 2

    TABLE OF CONTENT
    4 Ws

    1-3

    Who were they?


    When were they?
    Where were they from?
    What did they do?

    ....4
    Languages
    Missions
    ..5
    Changes to the People
    6
    Works Cited
    ...7

    WHO WERE THEY?


    Costanoans was name given by Spanish, meaning people
    of the coast
    North American Indian tribe occupying land on central
    coast in CA
    San Francisco to Big Sir; inland to Diablo Range Foothills

    Also called Ohlone people


    Established 50 different tribelet within their own
    50 to 500 members in each tribe

    Mostly hunter-gatherers or harvesters


    Lived in dome-shaped huts made of tulle

    WHEN & WHERE WERE THEY?


    When

    Where

    Costanoan ancestors moved to


    the San Francisco and
    Monterey Bay areas around
    A.D. 500
    In 1770 10,000+ Costanoans
    living on central coast

    Mutsun speaking Ohlone


    Indians lived in the
    Mission San Juan Bautista
    area
    Costanoans were part of
    the migration of Asian
    peoples across what is
    now known as the Bering
    Strait

    Total population fell to little over


    2,500 people in 1848

    Costanoan Indians occupied


    Central California around
    3,000 years before Spaniards
    arrived

    WHAT DID THEY DO?


    Resources were from coastal and inland streams

    mussels
    Salmon
    sea mammals
    Seaweed

    Also ate a great deal of grain and plant products


    Tobacco was important resource

    mixed with lime and eaten - produced kind of intoxication

    Seasonal burning of areas to promote continued growth and


    cultivation
    Part of Kuksu religion

    Purpose: renew the world each year to maintain the nature and the foods it
    provides for them

    LANGUAGES & REGION


    Language

    Region

    1.

    Karkin (Carquin)

    1.

    N o r t h E a s t S a n Fr a n c i s c o

    2.

    Ta mye n ( Ta m i e n )

    2.

    Santa Clara

    3.

    C h o c h e nyo

    3.

    E a s t B ay

    4.

    R a m ay t u s h

    4.

    S a n Fr a n c i s c o

    5.

    Aw a s wa s

    5.

    Santa Cruz

    6.

    Chalon ( Cholon)

    6.

    Soledad

    7.

    Mutsun

    7.

    San Juan Bautista

    8.

    Rumsen ( Rumsien)

    8.

    San Carlos, Carmel

    Wikipedia. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Ohlone_villages.png

    MISSIONS

    Seven missions were established in


    Costanoan territory:
    1. Mission Carmel
    2. San Juan Bautista
    3. Soledad
    4. San Jose
    5. Santa Clara
    6. Santa Cruz
    7. San Francisco de Asis.

    (Bocek, B)

    CHANGES TO THE PEOPLE

    Mission Period (1769-1833):

    Introduction of foreign diseases


    Declining birthrate
    Missionaries prohibited/ discouraged Indian social
    activities
    Worked and lived on missions
    Secularization of missions by Mexican Gov.
    Left missions
    Did manual labor around ranches

    (Bocek, B; Levy, R)

    WORKS CITED
    Bocek, Barbara. (1984), Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians,
    California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington.
    Economic Botany , Vol. 38, No. 2 pp. 240-255. Springer,
    New York Botanical Garden Press.
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/4254616
    Levy, R. The costanoan. Retrieved from
    http://pacificahistory.wikispaces.com/Costanoan+Indian
    +Tribe
    McLaughlin, D. Native Americans of San Juan Bautista.
    Retrieved from
    http://www.missionscalifornia.com/content/nativeamericans-san-juan-bautista.html

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