Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds “with a sound like that of a hurricane.” This land of “inexpressible fertility,” as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America.
One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans. Recently included in the San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 Western Non-Fiction list, The Ohlone Way has been described by critic Pat Holt as a “mini-classic.”

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

Biographies & Memoirs

Malcolm Margolin

Community & Culture

Heyday

Two hundred years ago herds of elk and antelopes dotted the hills above present-day San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Monterey. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds. This land of inexpressible fertility, as one early explorer described it, supported one ot the densest Indian populations in all of North America. Over 10,000 people, Ohlones or Costanoans, as they are often called, lived between Point Sur and San Francisco Bay. The Ohlone Way vividly recreates this lost world and the people who lived here such a short time ago...

The Ohlone Way

Heyday Books

California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style. With eighty photographs, index, map of Native California, and listing of California Indian resources.
Native Ways has been approved by the California Department of Education and is listed in the Instructional Materials Approved for Legal Compliance Catalog.

Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories

Children's Books

Yolanda Montijo

Literature & Fiction

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