Dave, Actually, the Southern California natives used tomol canoes, which were planked, to get back and forth to all eight of the Channel Islands. The natives at the islands and along the coast relied heavily on the sea for sustenance. There are huge midden piles of abalone shells on all the islands, and they fished and traded. Dolphins were sacred. The missions ordered the natives off the islands and took their tomol canoes away from them. There is a story of some of the natives not liking mission life, steeling back a tomol canoe, and sneaking back to one of islands. Duane --- On Sun, 12/27/09, Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> wrote: > If the natives had had watercraft, I bet the padres would > have used them. The natives lived a subsistence lifestyle in > a climate and time when little contact with the ocean was > needed, unlike the cultures to the north which depended on > the sea for their subsistence. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Dec 27 2009 - 13:30:16 PST
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