Prehistoric California: Boats, Shell Money, and Acorns (Prehistoric North America)

Here in Sonoma Co CA! Much love to all my Pomo friends!

super dumb video

What about the Laguna women found in Laguna Niguel? I thought she was dated back 15,000 years ago ?

Pre History? you mean pre-white History. But why is it not just History or California History…. Pre=Colonizer

Never mind. Ur not an archaeologist. Ur info is way out dated. Kudos for the good ole try.

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Thanks so much for this video. Pen-uti-an comes from the word /pen/ for "two" in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages of the Sacramento Valley, Butte County, and the San Joaquin Valley, respectively, and the word /uti/ for "two" in the Miwok and Ohlone/Costanoan languages of the Bay/Sierra and south Bay/Monterey Bay, respectively. It was expanded by Edward Sapir in 1916 & 1929 to include the following seven language families, departing California heading north: Plateau (Klamath and Nez Percé & Sahaptin), the Takelma language (e.g., Cow Creek Umpqua), the Kalapuya language (+Willamette & Yoncalla), Coosan (Hanis + Miluk, extinct), the Siuslaw language (Upper Umpqua), Alsean, and Chinookan; as well as the Tsimshian family (incl. Nisga'a & Gitksan) of northwest British Columbia. (Sapir also included Mixe-Zoqué and Huave, but it seems basically no one went with this.)

Hokan comes from the word /xwak/ for "two" in some families of California and Baja California: Karuk, Washo, Pomoan, Yuman, Seri, Tequistlatecan, and Jicaquean, as well as the extinct families Shasta-Palaihnihan, Chimariko, Yana, Esselen, Selinan, Coahuilteco, and Comecrudan.

Several Athabaskan languages (related to Navajo) and two Algic languages (related to Algonquian), namely Wiyot and Yurok, are also found in California, as well as Yuki and Wappo of the Redwood Valley & Alexander Valley, respectively. Yuki–Wappo is a grouping accepted by some and rejected by some; it may be the result of two languages with different origins living next to each other for millennia.

I live in Chumash territory

I loved this! Thank you!

Dunno. Grew up in Atwater. Always pronounced it “Two’ lah ray”.
But not a higher education

These People were All Black 😂

🗣️ Europeans Foreigner's Immigrants Colonizers Criminal's Who Committed Crime's Against NATIVE INDIGENOUS INDIAN'S

How amazing would it be if all of the Americas peoples were able to fend off western dominance? We would have unique, successful societies that would add so much to the human experience on the planet..

“there may have been warfare” how naive are you?

It would've so cool if they had figured out their own writing system so we would have some actual history on how things were ages ago. The California natives were the last to be conquered with Ishi in Northern California in 1911. The Northern California coast is home to two tribes who have lived in the same location for around 5000 years, the Yurok and Karuk lived in the giant redwoods of Humboldt County and built permanent dwellings, with some of the most fruitful fishing in the country, they harvested Salmon from the river and lived in large, sturder plank homes made from crudely hewn, naturals fallen old growth redwoods, the walls were often two feet thick and redwood being pest resistant, their homes lasted many decades.

“Native Americans” … no humans are or were native to North America, Central America and South America. All humans migrated or immigrated to the Americas at some point in history.

The use of the word “native” is politically motivated.

its pronounced Tu-lar-e

The California Native Americans were treated worse, generally, than in any other US state.

rip the natives and the native plants that fed them 😥

Lake Tulare (pronounced in California as “too-Larry”) doesn’t actually exist. It “resurfaced” during the winter 2023 storms because of the high volume of water but drained and the land is simply flat and shallow farmland. Don’t expect there to be an actual body of water, the largest freshwater lake, west of the Mississippi in the present day.

thank you for making this video and not spreading propaganda

Chumash Portola mestizo from Ojai, Mission Santa Buenaventura Alta California

Shell beads = forbidden cheerios

And probably a million or so colonial californio descendants unknowing of this heritage.

Islanders of kalifas

"Too Larry. " Not "tool air"

Tu-laer-y is how we say Tulare.

I do alot of studying on the Chumash as I grew up in the Channel Islands area. What has hapoened through the influx of the Spanish and then the Europeans is heartbreaking but a reality. Looking at the peace of a once thriving community is eye opening. What was once peaceful was brought to its knees in the name of progress. Im always brought to MY knees as it seems like a step backwards. Life. Where is it going from here? He who forgets the past is condemned to repeat it. Who will reign 200 years from now?

Sounds like a kid giving a report in a high school history class.

Hasn’t Clovis first been debunked for a long time?

Amazing how Europeans confiscated land 'ownership' from these original dwellers. All that violence and chaos it brought. No wonder the U.S. is such a mess...filled with the disgruntle unsettled generations that followed.

TularE. Long E at the end. Three syllables.

This was aztlan

Pre-Gangs!?!
Pre-Shopping carts!?!
Pre-Tent Communities!?!

The Miwok inspired George Lucas in the name Ewok, as George grew up in the area Miwoks inhabited.

It's pronounced "tu-lair-ee" (Tulare)

California B.C. (Before Communism).

Excellent presentation. Thank you for the hard work it took to make this enlightened video.

You lost me at "no pre clovis people'. I f**king guarantee you California natives were here for much longer.

Is the dude narrating this a white colonizer dude?

Tulare is pronounced “too-Larry”

Whales were so numerous centuries and millennia ago carcasses washed ashore more commonly than today. There was no need to wait. California first nation people's did not actively hunt whales. The Makah of Washingtons Olympic Peninsula were the closest and further north into B.C. and Alaska.

California has the most native tribes out of any state in the USA. I really want to try that acorn bread, hard to find anyone that can make it like they used to. Have not found a powwow that features acorn bread... someone please resurrect this lost art

This should be renamed as its focus is of southern California, there is also several archeological findings of wintu and many other tribes that easily date back to minimum of 10k years .

Brain dead what a good start. California dreaming.

How was the surf tho?

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How does the discovery of 22-23K year old footprints fit into this narrative? Thanks for telling this story! 🙂