Ohlone Day

Ohlone Indians are a tribe called Costanoans as they lived along the coast of California.
Friends of Deer Hollow Farm organized a reconstitution of an Ohlone village for people to learn about them, and that's where I went yesterday with my friend. A docent gave a demonstration on how to make fire using friction. A woman showed us how to cook acorn mush into acorn pancakes or oat meal- like food, and how hunters would get fish using buckeye. A demonstration on how they would hunt using archery was shown too. The Ohlone Indians would sleep in the huts on top of animal skins and stinky leaves that would keep bugs away.
I learned a lot from the hands-on activities at deer hollow farm and I had a lot of fun too.