CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 LAND OF PLENTY CHAPTER 2 BELIEFS AND PRACTICES CHAPTER 3 ART MUSIC AND DANCE CHAPTER 4 CHANGES AND CHALLENGES CHAPTER 5 PASSING ON TRADITIONS NOTABLE CALIFORNIA INDIANS TIMELINE GLOSSARY SOURCE NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FURTHER INFORMATION INDEX 5 10 20 26 32 38 42 43 44 45 45 46 47
ARCTI C SS U B AA R C T I C N O R T H W E S T C O A S T C A L I F O R N I A P L A TTTT EE AA U G RRRRRRR EE AA T PP LL A I NN S TT SS A E TTTTT HH S N O RRRRRRRRRRRR T A EE H SS OOOOOOO U TT B AA SIN ST E W HH TT U O S CALIFORNIA CULTURAL REGION OF NORTH AMERICA CULTURAL REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA Plateau Northwest Coast California Plains Southeast Southwest Great Basin Northeast Subarctic Arctic Other Cultural area border International border State province border
I NTRODUCTI ON In the beginning water covered the world Old Man Coyote asked Frog to dive down and bring him some mud from the ocean floor With the mud Coyote made land and animals came But there were no people Old Man Coyote walked across the land he had made Everywhere he wanted people to live he stuck two sticks in the ground The sticks became human beings That is how the world was created The Miwok MEE-wahk people of California tell this story of the beginning of their people California is home to many American Indian cultural groups Each group has its own creation story its own history and its own way of life Early California peoples communicated with one another about their cultural traditions events and everyday life through talking and storytelling They also shared information by making carvings singing and drawing Origins Scholars believe that California Indian cultures may be the oldest living cultures in North America Archaeologists have found a thirteen-thousand-year-old skeleton on an island where the Chumash CHEW-mosh 5
