YOUTUBE COMMENTS

 

From our Volvon Tribe Story and Volvon Trail Bedrock Mortar Walk Videos

• I live close to Mt Diablo and would love to search for more significant locations and landmarks.  I’d love to learn more from you!
• I grew up in Pleasanton, I never knew the area had so much history. How do I visit these areas? Do I have to get special permission?
• Thank you for this important video.
• At the north end of the valley the village is in there is a large circular feature in the ground that is about 100 feet wide and easily visible on Google Earth. I think it is a good candidate for being the Round House. If it is true that the Round House was burned down every time a chief passed away and then rebuilt by the new chief it would stand to reason that a significant mark would be left in the ground. If a chief ruled for an average of 25 years then that would be 4 houses a century for thousands of years and all in the same spot.
• Thank you! I am very interested. I hike behind Rossmoor and know the Saklan Indians lived here. I feel like I can still feel them. I am deeply interested in who lived here before and bereft that they are not here now.
• Hi, James: I have been searching for many years for ANY information on the Indian tribe that existed on the land which now is Redwood Park, on Redwood Road in Oakland CA. I have made phone calls and gone online and nobody seems to know which tribe was in that area. Do you have any information about the Redwood Park area and who lived there in the past?
• Where can I look for information on trading that occurred at Brushy Peak?
• I’ve hiked and photographed these places for over forty years. I’ve taken small groups of fellow photographers to these same areas. I appreciate your thoughts on the value of sacred places. Keep the faith.
• Great work, James! The deliberate silence on the historical significance of these sites is a form of genocide in itself, IMO. You are helping to restore and preserve the hidden truth for generations to come. And for that I am forever grateful for your hard work!
• I have been fascinated about these smaller distinguishing bedrock mortar features. I sometimes feel like I’m looking at all these specialty cooking implements in a professional chef’s kitchen.
• Thank you for sharing this with us. I got your book and use the Google Earth feature to locate and visit a number of these sites. They always give me special and different feelings. It is very intriguing to connect with the past. It is so unique from our own. Thank you. Keep up the Good Work.
• Many sites of a very ancient people, tribes, and traders over thousands of years. What natural products made the Volvon so remarkable that people came from all over California to purchase their products? Let us ask our universities to carefully and cautiously examine these talented cultures and wonderful places.
• I think it was that the Volvon were located next to Brushy Peak which is a landmark that sits in the Altamont Pass and is the natural route for trade between the coast and the Central Valley / Sierra with sea shells heading inland and minerals (ex. obsidian from Mono Craters) heading to the coast. My guess is that the Volvon sold food and religious trips to the top of Mt. Diablo to the traders and otherwise were likely very important in the running of the market.
• Fantastic job. Nothing like a video to get people more in touch and informed. Hope this indeed leads to greater awareness and respect and Native resumption of ceremonial practices, for the sacred land and ancestral presence are calling for it through these amazing and long committed spokespeople.Spirit connection and even lineage run deeper than simply modern human separatist DNA and blood samples.

 

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