Presenting a new and revised edition of this well-loved and popular classic. The Way We Lived is a rich and varied collection of stories, love songs, chants, and more from native people around the state. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, and always fascinating, these pieces show the remarkable perseverance of native culture and ways in modern times.
The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences
The remarkable perseverance of native culture and ways in modern times
Reviews
“An engaging portrait of our predecessors in California....Their stories, here brilliantly illuminated by Margolin's comments, contain beauty, humor, and wisdom.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Written in an accessible and pleasing way, both ethnographically responsible and deeply felt.”
—Parabola
About the Editor
Malcolm Margolin is executive director of Heyday, an independent nonprofit publisher and unique cultural institution, which he founded in 1974. Margolin is author of several books, including The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area, named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by a western writer. He has received dozens of prestigious awards among which are the Fred Cody Award Lifetime Achievement from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, the Helen Crocker Russell Award for Community Leadership from the San Francisco Foundation, the Carey McWilliams Award for Lifetime Achievement from the California Studies Association, an Oscar Lewis Award for Western History from the Book Club of California, a Hubert Bancroft Award from Friends of the Bancroft Library, a Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He serves on the boards of two organizations he helped found, Bay Nature Institute and Alliance for California Traditional Artists.
