Mondo's NAT # 166 - Costanoan Traditional Cache
Hidden : 7/29/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Native American Tribes series.

Costanoan

A linguistic family who lived on the coast of central California. In 1891 explorer, John Wesley Powell divided this area between two families, the Moquelumnan and Costanoan. The Moquelumnan family occupied the portion of the old Mutsun Territory east of San Joaquin River and north of San Francisco Bay. The territory of the Costanoan family extended from the Pacific Ocean to San Joaquin River, and from the Golden Gate and Suisun Bay on the north to Point Sur on the coast and a short distance south of Soledad in the Salinas Valley. They lived mainly on vegetal products, especially acorns and seeds, though they also obtained fish and mussels, and captured deer and smaller game. Their clothing was scant, the men going naked. Their houses were tule or grass huts, their boats balsas or rafts of tules. They made baskets, but no pottery, and appear to have been as primitive as most of the tribes of California. Seven missions -- San Carlos, Soledad, San Juan Bautista, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San José, and Dolores (San Francisco) -- were established in Costanoan territory by the Franciscans subsequent to 1770, and continued until their confiscation by the Mexican government in 1834, when theIndians were scattered. By the early 1900s, they numbered only about 25-30, most of whom lived a "Mexican" life rather thanIndian. There languages haven't been spoken in more than fifty years. However, some Ohlone Indian people are working to revive the ancestral language again.

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