California's Hidden History"For $3 and a little paperwork, "citizens" could indenture any Indian for 25 years. "Citizens" received from 50 cents to $5 per Indian scalp. The state of California paid out over a million dollars for scalps."

A Resource of Information about Costanoan (Ohlone) and other Indigenous Californians History, Current Events, Contacts, Native American experience Please be aware that there are many possible threads existing in the historical and contemporary information available here and that the ones we choose to impliment will hopefully lead to a clear (but by no means exclusive) picture of the reality of the state of California's Indians and what it tells us about truth in history, and more importantly, how California Indians face the same issues today as parents and grandparents faced-i.e. the misconception that they are "extinct", that the dominant culture can blithely ignore their existence and that we can afford to deny history as human beings in touch with and responsible for generations in the future and the past.

Thanks to Russell Imrie for permission to recopy the above information. Costanoan-Ohlone website http://www.indiancanyon.org lprieta@garlic.com NOSO-N "In Breath as it is in Spirit"

Kechayi Band of Yokuts Many YOKUTS people from the Central Valley were taken into the coastal missions as local, "raw material" ran out. Pat Brattland (Table Mountain Rancheria) has material on her ancestors who were thus taken.

Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush

From 10,000 B.C. to 1769 California Indians lived in peace and harmony with the land. When the Europeans arrived in the new world there were more than 400,000 California Indians, the largest concentration of Native Americans in North America. By 1915 their population had been reduced to just 16,000. Starting in 1769, the Spanish built 21 missions in California to convert the Indians to the Catholic religion and the Spanish way of life. The story of the Indians in the missions is one of hunger, disease, rebellion and death. After 65 years of operation, the missions failed to make the California Indians Spanish.


EXTERMINATE THEM! AMERICA'S WAR ON INDIAN NATIONS Part I: The California Story