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Swan Oyster Depot is a seafood eatery and cultural landmark located in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened there in 1903 and except for a brief hiatus and rebuilding period following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , it has been running continuously in the same venue since that time.
Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.
In 1856, a San Francisco Bulletin editorial stated, "Extermination is the quickest and cheapest remedy, and effectually prevents all other difficulties when an outbreak [of Indian violence] occurs." [ 18 ] In 1860, the legislature passed a law expanding the age and condition of Indians available for forced slavery.
Mezcal (/ m ɛ ˈ s k æ l / ⓘ, Latin American Spanish: ⓘ), sometimes spelled mescal, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from any type of agave.. Agaves or magueys are endemic to the Americas and found globally as ornamental plants.
Estanislao was the alcalde of the community before he left the mission with about 400 followers in 1827. Juan Bojorques describes Estanislao in his Recuerdos sobre la historia de California (1887) as "about six feet tall, his skin was more white than bronze, he was very muscular like a horse". [1]
Journals of the Legislature of the State of California at its Second Session (Report). San Jose. 1851. Kennedy, Joseph (1864). Population of the United States in 1860. Washington, DC: USA Government. Madley, Benjamin (2008). "California's Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History". Western Historical Quarterly. 39 (3): 303– 332.
Michael Joseph Buckley SJ (October 12, 1931 – July 25, 2019) was an American Jesuit priest and philosophical theologian. He was the Bea Professor of Theology at Santa Clara University . [ 1 ] He also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America .
The Jay, Autograph Collection Hotel opened as the Park Hyatt San Francisco in 1988. HEI Hotels & Resorts bought the hotel from SHC Park San Francisco, a subsidiary of Strategic Hotel Capital, on May 9, 2006, and rebranded it as Le Méridien San Francisco the following day, under franchise from Starwood .