Traditional Ecological Knowledge
This management strategy used by California Indians has the most dramatic impact on the bio-diversity and productivity of the landscape.
What is fire management/cultural burning?
Coast Miwok people found this English sea captain/pirate sailing along their coastline in Marin County in the 16th century.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
The basis of Spanish and all European claims in the Americas as well as the foundation for the United States’ western expansion.
What is the "Doctrine of Discovery"?
The Russian American Company greatly profited from this animal's pelt in California.
What are sea otters?
The year Mexico gained independence from Spain.
When is 1821?
California Indians used these items for cooking, gathering, trapping, storage, clothing, etc.
What are baskets?
This Luiseno man lived at the San Luis Rey Mission before he went to Rome to study for the priesthood. While there, he created the first written version of the Luiseno language.
Who is Pablo Tac?
Outposts for the Spanish military that were established in San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco.
What are presidios?
The place where Kashia Pomo and Coast Miwok people primarily engaged with Russian mercantile colonialism.
What is Fort Ross?
Kumeyaay people sought allegiance with the U.S. during this encounter with Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The ways in which California Indians provided resources for their tribal communities in an environmentally friendly way.
What are sustainable economies?
An alcalde for Mission San Jose, this Yokuts person went on to lead a rebellion against the mission system in central California with about 400-1000 followers.
Who is Estanislao?
This policy was used by the Spanish to relocate California Indians to the missions.
What is reduccion?
Russians established mercantile treaty relationships with these two tribes in California.
What are the Kashia Pomo and Coast Miwok/Bodega Miwok tribes?
The way that Anglo-Californians perceived California Indians during the Mexican era.
What is a "useful class"?
The most widely eaten food among California Indians.
What are acorns?
This Franciscan missionary infamously brought the mission system to California and established 9 of the 21 during his lifetime. He is a controversial figure who was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2015.
Who is Father Junipero Serra?
Broad term to describe methods California Indians used at missions to assert agency that included rebellions, assassinations, and raiding.
What is active resistance?
Miwok and Pomo peoples resided at this area around Fort Ross while serving as laborers for the Russians.
What is the Native California Neighborhood?
By the 1840s, this system replaced the missions as the dominant economic institution in CA.
What are ranchos?
A means of resistance and revitalization, California Indians are enacting this when they protect, preserve, and maintain lands in their aboriginal territories.
What is bio-cultural sovereignty?
Healer, weaver, and activist, she is one of the most well known and renowned California Indian basket weavers.
Who is Mabel McKay?
One dimension of Spanish colonialism that was meant to completely change California Indians' lives by introducing a rigid time schedule, punishment, different ideas about gender and societal roles, and spatial control.
What is enculturation?
A way that Russian-American Company agents solidified political alliances with Kashia Pomo and Bodega/Coast Miwok tribes.
What are interethnic unions?
This policy led to the division of “surplus” lands from the missions. Some California Indians were able to acquire land grants as a result
What is secularization?