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Book SynopsisSelected by the San Francisco Chronicle’s as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
“Beautifully imagined and written.”—Alice Walker
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. With clear and accessible writing that is spirited and at the same time informed, Malcolm Margolin vividly recreates the Ohlones’ lost world. From his unique vantage point as a “friend of the family,” he updates this classic text with a new preface that tells stories of the Ohlones’ continued endurance and resurgence.
Trade Review"[Margolin] has written thoroughly and sensitively of the Pre-Mission Indians in a North American land of plenty. Excellent, well-written."—American Anthropologist
"Margolin conveys the texture of daily life, birth, marriage, death, war, the arts, and rituals, and he also discusses the brief history of the Ohlones under the Spanish, Mexican, and American regimes...Margolin does not give way to romanticism or political harangues, and the illustrations have a gritty quality that is preferable to the dreamy, pretty pictures that too often accompany texts like this."—Choice
"Remarkable insight in to the lives of the Ohlone Indians."—San Francisco Chronicle
"A beautiful book, written and illustrated with a genuine sympathy . . . A serious and compelling re-creation."—The Pacific Sun
