Talk:Ohlone/Ohlone Book Reviews and Research Aid

message: 1997. Teixeira, Lauren.  The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area, A Research Guide contains 129 pages covering the resouces, the places to research, bibliography, and summary. 
I recommend starting with this book if you are serious about researching the people, this book summarizes all other research through the year 1997.  If I had this book first,  I would have saved so much time and found current sources. He even covers internet research and where to get detailed archived records. Goldenrowley 06:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians ...Teixeira, 1997 

message: Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area  1769-1810 (1995). 1995.
:Teixara says: "Core Research book." (Teixara, page 10) "Randall Milliken, Ph.D., has researched and written an unprecented work on the Costanoan/Ohlone...the most in-depth and compreshensive work on the Costanoan/Ohlone during the mission period to date. ... exhaustive research on the baptsim, marriage and death records of the missions of the San Francisco Bay Area, compiled with a computer database, has lent a multilayered, multidimensional pespective to a time and a people... recreates a tangible reality, opens a window into a mysterious, and heretofore vaguely known time period." (Teixara, page 10)
*This is a more recent book and with the above endorsement, should definitely be consulted. Milliken's book is a thorough and detailed history from 1769 t 1810 of these people. It has great deductions and detailed list of Bay Area tribes at the back. For the period it covers it is very detailed and helpful with MIssion records. Milliken made a database of Mission Indians from the Mission Records, a wealth of historical detail and genealogy is in the database. The statustical charts reports number of births, deaths, baptism for each mission. The list of tribes throughout the region is very thorough and helpful, it gives short history of each tribe including where they lived and the first years they were baptized at the missions. The list of tribes covers the Bay Area Indians, not just Ohlone but also  neighboring tribes, some of the Miwok and some Patwin. Goldenrowley 21:57, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A Time of Little Choice, Milliken 1995 

message: Bean, John L. The Ohlone: Past and Present. 1992
:Teixara said: "Core Research book." (Teixara, page 10) "A compilation of papers presented by scholars and Costanoan/Ohlone descendents at the Ohlone conference held at CSU Hayward in Nov. 1992...prominent anthropologist, scholar and oganizer of the conference. This extraordinary book is the first of its kind - scholars and descendents together, voicing their knowledge, concerns and views of the Costanoan/Ohlone life as it was, is and will be." (Teixara, page 10)
*This is a place holder. This is a more recent book and with the above endorsement, should definitely be consulted. Goldenrowley 06:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Ohlone: Past and Present, Bean 1992 

message: Cook, Sherburne F. The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, June 1976. . 
:Teixara:  no comment/not mentioned. 
*Cook's second book "Indian Population". It promised a count of all California Indians but I was disappointed in that it is broad, he was focused on counting ALL California Indians as a group, rather than counting by tribe or language group, and his population counting is not straight forward (he counts by county, and counts the Costanoans in the east bay counties on one page, but never quites counts the south bay, Santa Cruz, or West Bay, for instance).  I'd look for better local/regional research on the internet and UCB and UCD libraries for better more localized research for this region of natives.   Goldenrowley 19:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Population of the California Indians..., Cook 1976 -