GC3RG9E Mondo's NAT # 166 - Costanoan
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 07/29/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 48.985 W104° 58.333 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
           

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Native American Tribes series.

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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.

02/20/2021 By lasouthpaw
Peace love pi and I headed out and about today to grab a few. We thought it was going to be cold, but it was a beautiful morning. I have this crazy flirtation with finding all the traditionals within a 10 mile radius. We started at a southern spot and started working our way north. Both of us were on it, and we wound up finding a lot of caches that had previous DNFs. We sloth cached here, the phone said our parking spot was 2 feet from the cache. Thanks for the smiley!

02/20/2021 By peace love pi
Out enjoying this surprisingly warm day with lasouthpaw. TFTC! All is well with this cache.

12/17/2020 By MonticelloJay
Easy t. TFTC. With BadGator

12/17/2020 By badgator
Nice P&G. TFTC

10/17/2020 By jacobboulder
Quick find with my dad. Getting some caches near Denver today. SL. TFTC!

Find #4765

06/15/2019 By laurentilton
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03/27/2019 By imusttravel2000
Cruising around today and came across this cache. Thanks!!

02/19/2019 By DRZMAN
TFTC SL

08/06/2018 By LostinDenver
Quick find on a beautiful day. Tftc!

07/09/2018 By kirchegeo
Nice hide with ldkloss and geo puppy Dickens. Tftc sl

07/06/2018 By Oilbear125
We have done the Denver Public Library series, the Across the Divide Geotour and the Colorado South Park Geotour this week. We are just picking up other caches in the area as we work our way home. Caching with Wall77, Ghostiegal. and KSGator. Stamped log as WOGG. TFTC

07/06/2018 By wall77
Found and stamped log as team WOGG (Wall77, Oilbear125, Ghostiegal, ksgator), good hide.

07/06/2018 By ksgator72
Found and logged as team WOGG (Wall77, Oilbear125, Ghostiegal, ksgator), nice hide

07/06/2018 By Ghostiegal
Cha-Ching! Found with my favorite caching crew from OK and KS.....Oilbear....Wall77....and KSGator. Thanks!! :)

05/07/2018 By Bennierae
Nice hide! Easy cache n dash. Tftc

05/07/2018 By th3b3ard
Found it pretty lady has good eyes.

12/01/2017 By DustyKat
Found while setting up for a trade show at the Merchandise Mart.

11/27/2017 By Barasaur
Out for the day with Memfis Mafia caching.

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