Hi alex! Thank you so much for this video. I am actually 3rd generation Salinan Indian, from the Xolon Tribe specifically. My mother told me about the cave writings but I never saw how it actually looked, it's beautiful! It's so cool to know where my ancestors come from. You know the government to this day, even with evidence of bones and everything that you saw, doesn't consider us like they do for example Pechanga indians, sad isn't it?Thank you for your admiration and dedication, it is very appreciated!
Just visited this area yesterday. We also found hundreds of mortars but missed some nice sites. Thanks to this video I think ill be able to find the missing gems, thank you sir
Alex I have just recently found your videos. It is wonderful to learn so much about the ones who came before us. I love the way you teach us and the way you explain the wonders you are seeing. I will never look at our nation the same again.
Thank you for making this video. It brings me back to when I was little and walking the caves with my family. I am a descendant of the Salinan Tribe. Thank you for the memories.
This was AWESOME! Thank you Alex! You did a beautiful job! My baby girl was dancing to the music as I watched it! I grew up outside of San Lucas and really enjoy local history!
Very grateful that you're taking us on your journey and teaching us what you know (I would've never known that stone tool was used for starting a fire). Great video! Can't wait for the next one!
S beautiful pestle! With the lichen it'd been there a long time!I have found ancient artwork, goose and swan seem to be iconic,Pestle in use looks like swan feeding, I love it!
Alex, this is truly amazing to understand where we live. So sorry people around us care more about IT and computers, rather than go outside and think about the nature and ancestors. I'm European leaving in Bay Are, for me it's weird not to care about the history artifacts. Thank you so much for your work!
Thank you for watching. I really enjoy trekking in the great outdoors and in the footsteps our our first nation people. It is definitely a learning experience.........alex
I grew up going camping out there and it always felt like such a special place to be! My brother and I climbed those cliff faces and played frisbee golf off of it😜
@storiesbyalex And to think, Alex, when I was deer hunting at Navaho Peek in northern Nevada, there were hundreds of those pot holes with pestles left in them. At the time, I had thought it was some geological mystery. And there were thousands upon thousands of obsidian shards that were slightly defective, not quite a perfect arrowhead. Now I realize, thanks to you, that it was actually a habitation site for Paiute and Shoshone peoples. Plus, there was many circles with stones encircling them. Now knowing that they were the wiki ups used for shelter. Thanks Alex! Please make more videos.
Thank you for taking me to the places that I would never have been able to see. I am from the southeastern part of the country and while I have been to California a couple of times, I have never had the luxury of the time or money to experience it as you are. I have a background in environmental design and large scale resource management planning and I have a deep interest in the indigenous peoples that occupied this land not only at the time of the European contact, but the thousands and thousands of years that preceded it and the manner in which they exploited the natural environment for sustenance and shelter, not to mention the debate s and evidence of preColumbus contact and settlement by various cultures of Europe and the Middle East that has been proven through not just the hard evidence, but the genetic evidence of recent times with the discovery of the 9,000 water burials found near St Augustine that tested to be European. But back to the Desert Oak Grasslands that you have taken me to recently. I have learned a lot from you and the abandoned pestles is amazing as was the fire weight. I was thrilled to see the wallow holes that you cooled off in. I have one here in Georgia that is at the bottom of a 15 foot waterfall and in front of the main pool. It is just before a 200+/- foot shoals waterfall and looks across a valley to the west to the highest mountain in the state which is 4,500 feet above sea level, not very high by your mountain standards, but the Appalachian Mountains are the second oldest mountains in the world and that has resulted in the most complex soils and forest in America that were so thick that it took over 250 years before settlers from the colonies could begin to make their way over them and move westward. Back to the wallow holes. I believe that you, in your zeal to identify the food grinding stations, circled ⭕️ 2 or 3 on the edge of the stream that were actually wallow holes that are created by a small stone being trapped in a depression and over time due to the the velocity of the water flow, a hole is created in solid rock. Of course the type of stone would affect the length of time as would the seasonal flow of the stream. The holes on the edge of the stream had water in them, but would not expand until the stream reached minimum flood stage in my estimation. The old professor Live free or die! Death to all tyrants! The truth will stand when the earth falls!
Mortars and tools and everything beautiful video. I have minor in Cultural Anthropology and am enjoying this. Who knew so much of this in my own backyard. Rock art so simple, so enigmatic, themes tend to repeat, result of sleep deprivation audio Driving and fasting at least some of it. This is very relaxing like a meditation.
Yup, mentioned it to an Editor of the National Speleological Society in passing. I was more interested with Mortuary Caves of California. Saw none in Santa Cruz County but discovery potential does exist. If not now mined within a quarry.
Re: 2.26-2.41 of the video -- First, Fr. Sitjar learned the local language in order to teach the basic tenants of the Catholic Church. Next, with inner-marriage which the priests blessed, a new culture developed. Also, the locals who converted said they should destroy the caves due to idolatry. However, the padres said no because of the Christian cross, that predated the Portola expedition and founding of Mission San Antonio de Padua, in La Cueva Pintada. Last, See "Padres and People" by Beatrice Casey.
I worry a little bit about poachers taking advantage of your wonderful videos. As much as I like to see the tools you find, maybe it would be better to make separate videos including them but without specifying the locations. I keep hearing stories of people destroying sites to make a buck. Thanks for what you do.
Jesse, thanks for watching and your comments. Hopefully, this has not occurred to the sites that I have visited. Often I do not identify the exact location for this purpose..............alex
thank you so much for all your work,,, I can spend all day getting to see it in the flesh,,, blessings to ever step my friend and much love "JES - SE- OUT- & - INTO - THE - REAL " "JES -SE- R- U- I- Z " Jesse Ruiz
Eric, thanks for watching. Hopefully, one day my film editing program will have a spell check. Until then I'll try to pay attention to my spellling...........alex
Hi alex! Thank you so much for this video. I am actually 3rd generation Salinan Indian, from the Xolon Tribe specifically. My mother told me about the cave writings but I never saw how it actually looked, it's beautiful! It's so cool to know where my ancestors come from. You know the government to this day, even with evidence of bones and everything that you saw, doesn't consider us like they do for example Pechanga indians, sad isn't it?Thank you for your admiration and dedication, it is very appreciated!
Thanks for watching. Hopefully, the tribe petition to the Government to be recognized will be successful in the near future.......alex
I have Salinan ancestrage as well. I really enjoy this video. One day I hope we get our recognition.
Just visited this area yesterday. We also found hundreds of mortars but missed some nice sites. Thanks to this video I think ill be able to find the missing gems, thank you sir
As a Salinan Native It is amazing to see people recognizing our history 🙏🏽.
Alex I have just recently found your videos. It is wonderful to learn so much about the ones who came before us. I love the way you teach us and the way you explain the wonders you are seeing. I will never look at our nation the same again.
elwood, thanks for watching the series and your kind words........................alex
Thank you for making this video. It brings me back to when I was little and walking the caves with my family. I am a descendant of the Salinan Tribe. Thank you for the memories.
This was AWESOME! Thank you Alex! You did a beautiful job! My baby girl was dancing to the music as I watched it! I grew up outside of San Lucas and really enjoy local history!
Very grateful that you're taking us on your journey and teaching us what you know (I would've never known that stone tool was used for starting a fire). Great video! Can't wait for the next one!
+Chris Mcclary Chris, it was a fun trek and I'm glad you enjoyed the journey........alex
Lot of beauty here
S beautiful pestle! With the lichen it'd been there a long time!I have found ancient artwork, goose and swan seem to be iconic,Pestle in use looks like swan feeding, I love it!
Alex, this is truly amazing to understand where we live. So sorry people around us care more about IT and computers, rather than go outside and think about the nature and ancestors. I'm European leaving in Bay Are, for me it's weird not to care about the history artifacts. Thank you so much for your work!
Thank you for watching. I really enjoy trekking in the great outdoors and in the footsteps our our first nation people. It is definitely a learning experience.........alex
I really enjoy these journeys, with your videos and with my family when we're out and exploring!
Thanks for watching the series and yur kind words...........................alex
I grew up going camping out there and it always felt like such a special place to be! My brother and I climbed those cliff faces and played frisbee golf off of it😜
Thank you very much. These are my ancestors. Many still live in the area, mostly Paso Robles
another jaw dropping masterpiece
I love the firestarter stone.
Beautiful place Alex! You be careful on that cliff! thanks for sharing with us!
+b williams Thanks for watching. It was a fun trek......alex
@storiesbyalex
And to think, Alex, when I was deer hunting at Navaho Peek in northern Nevada, there were hundreds of those pot holes with pestles left in them. At the time, I had thought it was some geological mystery. And there were thousands upon thousands of obsidian shards that were slightly defective, not quite a perfect arrowhead. Now I realize, thanks to you, that it was actually a habitation site for Paiute and Shoshone peoples. Plus, there was many circles with stones encircling them. Now knowing that they were the wiki ups used for shelter.
Thanks Alex! Please make more videos.
I am learning so much from you! TY
great adventure! and that fire starting stone how cool. ive never seen one.
I love your explorations Alex. Thank you for sharing them. Say, are you still alive?
Thank you for taking me to the places that I would never have been able to see. I am from the southeastern part of the country and while I have been to California a couple of times, I have never had the luxury of the time or money to experience it as you are. I have a background in environmental design and large scale resource management planning and I have a deep interest in the indigenous peoples that occupied this land not only at the time of the European contact, but the thousands and thousands of years that preceded it and the manner in which they exploited the natural environment for sustenance and shelter, not to mention the debate s and evidence of preColumbus contact and settlement by various cultures of Europe and the Middle East that has been proven through not just the hard evidence, but the genetic evidence of recent times with the discovery of the 9,000 water burials found near St Augustine that tested to be European.
But back to the Desert Oak Grasslands that you have taken me to recently. I have learned a lot from you and the abandoned pestles is amazing as was the fire weight.
I was thrilled to see the wallow holes that you cooled off in. I have one here in Georgia that is at the bottom of a 15 foot waterfall and in front of the main pool. It is just before a 200+/- foot shoals waterfall and looks across a valley to the west to the highest mountain in the state which is 4,500 feet above sea level, not very high by your mountain standards, but the Appalachian Mountains are the second oldest mountains in the world and that has resulted in the most complex soils and forest in America that were so thick that it took over 250 years before settlers from the colonies could begin to make their way over them and move westward.
Back to the wallow holes. I believe that you, in your zeal to identify the food grinding stations, circled ⭕️ 2 or 3 on the edge of the stream that were actually wallow holes that are created by a small stone being trapped in a depression and over time due to the the velocity of the water flow, a hole is created in solid rock. Of course the type of stone would affect the length of time as would the seasonal flow of the stream. The holes on the edge of the stream had water in them, but would not expand until the stream reached minimum flood stage in my estimation.
The old professor
Live free or die!
Death to all tyrants!
The truth will stand when the earth falls!
Mortars and tools and everything beautiful video. I have minor in Cultural Anthropology and am enjoying this. Who knew so much of this in my own backyard. Rock art so simple, so enigmatic, themes tend to repeat, result of sleep deprivation audio Driving and fasting at least some of it. This is very relaxing like a meditation.
David, thanks for watching and your comments..........alex
This is fascinating! I never even heard of this tribe… Is this by tule lake?
Might have stumbled on some ancient hippie caves as well. During the sixties some hippies lived in the caves of las Padres forests to..
Yup, mentioned it to an Editor of the
National Speleological Society in
passing. I was more interested
with Mortuary Caves of California.
Saw none in Santa Cruz County
but discovery potential does exist.
If not now mined within a quarry.
I do not know why you don't have more views on your videos! This is a wealth of information. I really enjoy them. Keep up the great videos.
+Devvon Graham Devon, thanks for watching and the kind words..........alex
Thanks a lot Alex
😮awesome.... thanks!
I'm salinan Indian I'd love to know more
Re: 2.26-2.41 of the video -- First, Fr. Sitjar learned the local language in order to teach the basic tenants of the Catholic Church. Next, with inner-marriage which the priests blessed, a new culture developed. Also, the locals who converted said they should destroy the caves due to idolatry. However, the padres said no because of the Christian cross, that predated the Portola expedition and founding of Mission San Antonio de Padua, in La Cueva Pintada. Last, See "Padres and People" by Beatrice Casey.
I worry a little bit about poachers taking advantage of your wonderful videos. As much as I like to see the tools you find, maybe it would be better to make separate videos including them but without specifying the locations. I keep hearing stories of people destroying sites to make a buck. Thanks for what you do.
Jesse, thanks for watching and your comments. Hopefully, this has not occurred to the sites that I have visited. Often I do not identify the exact location for this purpose..............alex
@@storiesbyalex I'm just a little wary, but i'm sure they're ok. TY
thank you so much for all your work,,, I can spend all day getting to see it in the flesh,,, blessings to ever step my friend and much love
"JES - SE- OUT- & - INTO - THE - REAL "
"JES -SE- R- U- I- Z "
Jesse Ruiz
spend all day getting READY ,,,to see in the flesh (at some point ),,,lol,,
Jesse, thanks for watching the series and your kind words..........................alex
2:18 Great video, but you should work on your spelling. I see a lot in your videos.
Eric, thanks for watching. Hopefully, one day my film editing program will have a spell check. Until then I'll try to pay attention to my spellling...........alex
Thank you Alex! One suggestion: please keep the entire music consistently Native American :-)
Thats an ancient structure..looks like it was build by giants
Hello and thanks for watching. The cave is a natural formation......................alex
I do not know why you don't have more views on your videos! This is a wealth of information. I really enjoy them. Keep up the great videos.
I do not know why you don't have more views on your videos! This is a wealth of information. I really enjoy them. Keep up the great videos.
I do not know why you don't have more views on your videos! This is a wealth of information. I really enjoy them. Keep up the great videos.