I am a grade 5 teacher...I am fascinated about this story and teach this novel.

Outstanding presentation.

Such a well presented and informative update to this ongoing research. Thank you Steve Schwartz and channelislandsnps. I've been following your work on San Nicholas for several years. Where is the Redwood Box Cache be displayed?

Just found about this today I wonder if there’s any follow up ? Would love to hear any updates

When we bought our home in El Monte the former owners were rockhounds and apparently jewelry makers. We had five extremely large orange Abalone shells that were well over eight inches the long way on the shell. Decades later diving in Calif. all the way up to BC Canada I never saw live abalone larger than four inches!! Obviously these shells were fresh and from the 1950's; we bought the house in 1963,

This has one of my ancestor in it "George Nidever” was a captain of a ship that brought the lone Indian woman back to San Marcos California I own the book I have read it more than 90 times I lov the book

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Very interesting presentation, but I was hoping to hear her songs and for GOD'S sake stop zooming that laser pointer all over the place.

Imagine the couple pre Russian centuries when the Spanish interacted with the Chumash/Tongva on the islands and mainland, The Spanish were not interested in trading for pelts, more so their objective throughout the America's was in Converts/Slaves for Gold & Silver mining , cattle ranching, crop tending and mission building. So later in time the Russians come along with a huge European market demand for Otter pelts, & As the speaker states strikes a trade deal with the local islanders for pelts, Soon after Russians realizing these local hunters were not proficient enough for profitability so the Russians conscript Alaskan Hunters and sail down to the Islands to Hunt. After a relationship was established the Local hunters realized they were being double crossed & replaced so a dispute occures ending with the death of 1 alaskan hunter and many channel islanders die in a vigilante response.. I imagine the conflict occured because the locals realized that these new hunters and their untrustworthy Russian masters would soon exterminate them and deplete the entire otter population, leaving nothing..Little did they know the Americans like the Spanish before had big plans for them, their islands & their mainland holdings .Removing them from their homelands and natural habitat and relocating them on reservations, rancherias with hopes to assimilate them to once again become sub-citizen slaves to menial work their fields and provide domestic servitude. Feeding them a nutrient poor Euro-American based diet of which dissentary and malnourishment was commonplace throughout the history of the north american occupation.

Every time this supposed "expert" said, "San Pedro." I cringed. We do not pronounce the name of our town : Paydro. It is pronounced by every local (Pedronian), Peeeedro.

Any Caucasian giants buired on the island?