Alameda Native History Project

Category: Website Updates

  • Phase 2: The Search for Undiscovered History

    Phase 2

    The Search for Undiscovered History

    Using technology to rediscover our everyday surroundings.

    Employing citizen science to crowd source casual and scientific observations. Wading through the tule. Using LIDAR, Photo-grammetry, and Geocode.

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  • AlamedaNativeArt.com Series Schedules Announced

    AlamedaNativeArt.com has several, concurrent, series and galleries being published right now. Here’s a break-down of what you can expect.

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  • Menus Fixed

    I updated the menus for the site. Here’s a quick breakdown of what the sitemap looks like right now.

    HOME

    RECENT

    ABOUT

    ART

    ANHP

    ARCHIVES

    Stay tuned for more updates.

  • Growing Up on the Alameda Indian Burial Mounds

    Growing up on Court Street, in Alameda, I found a large bone. It looked like a vertebrae. It was laying in the dirt, underneath the deck, in the backyard.

    My parents told me it was a cow bone; something that the owners of the house before left behind. Or their dog. –Or it was their dog.

    But it was large–like I said–but not “cow-bone large”….
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  • AlamedaNativeArt.com is LIVE!

    YES!! I finally finished working on most of this site. I think there might be a couple of buttons that don’t point to anything. (Please let me know when you find them.) But the main, navigational things, all connect. Victory!

    And this is running on a content-delivery network, so it should be reasonably fast. Some servers are probably still caching.

    This website is optimized for Desktop and Mobile views. I really tried to make sure this looks good on a cell phone. And that it’s easy to navigate.

    Stuff I still have to do:

    East Bay Parks

    • Write Mission Peak article;
    • Start creating Park Galleries, and,
    • Park write-ups;
    • Create a production and release schedule for these articles — probably weekly.

    Photography

    • Flesh out both sections, in general;
    • Add more Urban Photography.

    Art

    • Add Handmade Art section;
    • Update links from Etsy to Handmade Art section.

    Writing

    • Haunted Alameda – Add decent Introduction.
    • Zombie: The Incident at Bloody Rock – Make some teaser stuff.
    • Generally create a production and release schedule for both series.

    Stay tuned. There’s more coming soon!

  • Alameda Native History Project: Shellmounds

    Aside from this being my first post in this category; this is to announce that I’ve finished working on the Alameda Shellmounds project pages, of the Alameda Native History Project section of this website. Woo!

    The history of the Alameda Shellmounds, presented with research, and excerpts of historical sources, and some interpretation. The project is being presented on 3 pages. So, get your reading glasses, ready. I’ll also be making another page in the ANHP section specifically to showcase ANHP maps. Historical maps can be seen in the Alameda Native History Project Wiki.

    More to come. Stay tuned.

  • Maps!

    Been working on moving all of this website from the Google Sites, over to AlamedaNativeArt.com. One of the largest components of the Alameda Native History Project apparatus is the Maps Section.

    There were certain limitations to using google maps. Various licensing considerations that became really complicated; and super expensive. I had found OpenStreeMaps when I was doing initial research into the best ways to display the data I’ve found. But… it seemed too complicated to try and configure in the time limit I was working with.

    But now that I’ve had an abundance of time, due to COVID-19, I’ve been able to think about this project a little more.

    The first thing I had to do was create the website. Like I said, I’m working section-by-section. Creating and tailoring the content I have to fit here. I am doing my best to not make the experience overwhelming. But… You have to understand, I have a lot of content.

    So much content that I’m going to use a Wiki for reference, for the maps, and probably for other things on this site, too. It will be a good tool to keep track of my own citations, as well. Which are going to be kept as plain-english as possible.

    Anyway, I stopped to write this. I’m in between having completed the maps, and starting the Wiki.

    I might get some caffeine; and food. And toilet paper, or something. All of California is on lockdown, now. I actually think states and federal governments should be able to declare some form of “Martial Law” to stop a disease from spreading like wildfire. I think the 85% FULL trigger to lockdown should have been somewhere between 35-55%. It’s in the public interest to restrict the freedoms of citizens, to prevent them from spreading the disease.

    Some of you never played Plague Inc., and it shows.

  • First Post

    There’s always a first post, post. This is it. My first post.

    I will be using post pages to share:

    • Articles
    • Essays
    • Updates
    • Stories

    And other things of interest. Re-posting articles from other sources, sharing news from Native America, and around the world. Rants. (That should have been in the list.)

    Anyway, this website is still under development. I’m working on it section-by-section.

    I’m just glad I have most of the content created. Most of the work right now is on curation. Once I get the structure of the website, menus, and pop-up configured, I’ll go live. But, for now, I’m just gonna make a couple of blogs posts to let you all know this project is still being worked on; and more updates will come soon.

    Tentative ETA: December 24, 2020.