100 Year Plan for the Volvon Village
The main Volvon Village in Morgan Territory provides a distinct opportunity to re‐enliven a dormant Indian habitation site and, in terms more graphic than any textbook, illuminate the actual living environment of a 9,000 year old California Indian village situated between the most heavily used trading grounds and ceremonial sites in pre‐Spaniard central California.
The Volvon’s controlled access to the Sacred Mountain, Tuyashtak.
This location was used by the until recent ancestral inhabitants of this land because of its unique geographical setting, and the abundance of fresh year round spring water.
Except for a couple of phone wires and fences, a cow pond and 2 dirt roads, the physical terrain of the site remains exactly as it has been for thousands of years of human habitation.
It appears to have never been excavated, examined, or acknowledged in any positive way.
This site will soon be recognized as a sacred and restorable link to the history of this land and its people, which we all now share.
A 100 Year Plan should be developed and implemented. It could include:
- Recognize the value and significance of the site, which already lies protected by Los Vaqueros Watershed and EBRPD Park lands.
- Remove all evidence of the modern world, i.e. phone wires, barbed wire fences, dirt roads and the cow pond, and allow the site to re‐vegetate naturally, removing non‐native plant life and encouraging native plant regeneration.
- Recreate, using native materials, portions of the village to the best of documentable and imagined accuracy, to include willow and reed housing structures, granaries, and food processing and preparation areas.
- Bring small groups through the living village on guided tours and overnight seminars that will allow them to get in touch with the importance of the native culture and life experience, and what it can teach us.
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