He was Franciscan. The padres and their entourages established regimes of brutality and slavery which caused local revolts, conflagrations and assassinations. During the fur trade of the 18th and 19th centuries, southern sea otters were hunted to near extinction. By 1927, Monterey Bay city life had become settled, productive and opulent. Visit the Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History exhibition room dedicated to the Ohlone.
Archeological finds are on display to be imagined in context.
A huge and lovely mural depicts the people of an Ohlone village in the midst of daily activities. Walk on a sidewalk of whale bone or see fine antique furnishings displayed in old adobe buildings. Stroll the same streets that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson as he gathered impressions for his classic novel Treasure Island. And stand on the very spot where US troops added 600,000 square miles of land to the United States. Pick up an OMBA Path of History map in downtown Monterey on Alvarado Street.