The Ohlone Way
Subtitle: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: August 1981
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780930588014
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; General; Native American Anthropology; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes
Other titles: Ohlone Way
Description: **The culture of the Indian people who inhabited the Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans**

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.”
Notes: *New Preface added for this edition of the book that described the native people of the area from San Francisco to Monterey, California*