Indians of the San Ramon Valley

Indians of the San Ramon Valley 

This information comes from the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in 2001.

For untold centuries people have lived in the San Ramon Valley.  They built their homes by the creeks, hunted in the valley and worshipped on the Mountain.

• Randall T. Milliken, An Ethnohistory of the Indian People of the San Francisco Bay Area from 1770 to 1810  (Berkeley: Dissertation, 1991).
• A Time of Little Choice   The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810  (Menlo Park:  Ballena Press, 1995)
• Bev Ortiz, " Mount Diablo As Myth and Reality, An Indian History Convoluted," American Indian Quarterly  (Fall, 1989)
• This information comes from the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in 2001.
• Louis Choris, drawings of "Three Bay Area Indians" and of "Weapons and Utensils," 1816, courtesy of the Bancroft Library
• Drawing of "The Padre Teaching Indians" and Village scene by Al Greger, 1996.
• Conceptual Drawings of Mission San Jose by Jo Mora.