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Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Ohlone Tribe, Part 1
The Ohlone people occupied the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions for thousands of years. Part 1 of a 2-part series. In…
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Early Settlment of California
Who settled California? What was their life like? What were the first towns?
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Soldiers and Presidios in Alta California
Who were the soldiers that came to Alta California? What was their life like? What were the presidios, and what was their…
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Podcast Episode 002 — “You Have to Carry This On”: What it Means to Be a Californio
In this episode, I speak with Greg Bernal-Mendoza Smestad, a direct descendant of the families who settled Alta California over 200 years…
