The Elusive Eden Study Questions Chapters Three and Four

1. What were the "Diggers?"
2. Why did Europeans view California native as "degraded creatures?"
3. What values are suggested by the words primitive, prehistoric, Stone Age or savage?
4. What did the Spanish mean by "Pueblo sophistication?"
5. When did the native Californian first reach California
6. What did the American natives cross to reach America?
7. What was the native population of California before the arrival of the Europeans?
8. What did the European conquest of California primarily conquer?
9. Where did the Yokuts live?
10. Where did the Costanoan live?
11. Where did the Chumash live?
12. Where did the Yurok and Karok live?
13. Where did the Miwok and the Yahi live?
14. Where did the Mojave live?
15. Where did the Cahuilla live?
16. Where did the Paiute live?
17. Who were the Lakisamni?
18. Which California native cconomies relied on acorns?
19. Which California native cconomies relied on fish?
20. Which California native cconomies relied on pine nuts?
21. Which California native cconomies relied on a mesquite and srewbeans
22. Which California native cconomies relied on agriculture which utilized some type of irrigation?
23. Which California natives used tule canoes?
24. Which California native cconomies relied on ocean products?
25. What did the native Californians do with food surpluses?
26. What did the native Californians do with obsdian, granite, stealite, salt, tar, shells and cinnabar?
27. Which native Californians produced redwood canoes?
28. How was the diet and health of the native Calforinas?
29. What would be an example of native Californian ecological management?
30. What would be an example of native Californian Chemistry?
31. What would be an example of native Californian medicine and medical procedures?
32. How did the native Californians use burning and pruning?
33. Which native foods did the native Californian grow?
34. Which foreign foods did the native Californian grow
35. Science, Ecology and Agriculture
36. What are aspects of native Californian religion?
37. What is monotheism, polytheism and animism?
38. How did native Californians connect religion and the ecological balance?
39. What are triblets?
40. How did the social fabric of native Californians vary regarding lineage, clan and tribes vary with geography?
41. Did native Californians have a "class structure?"
42. How did "gender roles" vary?
43. What arts did the native Californians practice?
44. Did arts practiced by the native Californians vary by gender?
45. In 1769 what types of animals roamed the central valley in the 18th century?
46. Who was Pedro Fages
47. When was the presidio and mission at San Francisco founded?
48. When was the mission at Santa Clara founded?
49. When was the pueblo and mission at San Jose established?
50. What was the gentiles' warning to the Yokuts?
51. In what businesses did the missions engage?
52. How many neophytes were housed at Mission San Jose in 1826?
53. How many baptisms had been performed at Mission San Jose by 1826?
54. What did Father Narciso Duran teach the neophytes that was somewhat unusual?
55. Who were Fathers Narciso Duran and Buenaventura Fortuny?
56. What is Paternalism?
57. What was the death rate among neophytes at Mission San Jose around 1826?
58. Who was Estanislao?
59. Where did Estanislao come from?
60. What was the motivation for Estanislao's Rebellion?
61. What was Secularization?
62. Was there a relationship between Secularization and Estanislao's Rebellion?
63. What were defectors?
64. Who "solemized" a victory near the present Stanislaus River?
65. Who was Ygnacio Martinez?
66. Who was Antonio Soto?
67. Who were Macario and Benigo?
68. Who was Jose Antonio Sanchez?
69. Who was Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo?
70. What was attacked with "Grape shot?"
71. What was Father Duran's reaction to the results of Vallejo's expedition?
72. What happened to Estanislao following Vallejo's expedition?