We went to this beautiful state park called Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park. It celebrates the Miwok and other Chaw'se native tribes that lived there before the minors came in 1849, and provides space for the current local Native Americans to play and have rituals. And it has a large rock with the most mortor holes (where in the past native women ground acorns and nuts with pestles) in all of North America (see photo of lizard in next blog post to see the rock). Of course, being an anthropologist, this was my most favorite state park so far. Unfortunately the museum was not open when we were there; we'll just have to go back!Capture California, The Lion and The Crab Team
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