Mural Info
Artist: Anton Refregier
Location: Mission and Spear, South of Market
Current state: Available
Photo by: SF Mural Arts
Taken on: 4-Feb-2012
Views: 4545
Panel #2. All early European explorers record meetings with the Indians. As many as 300,000 Indians may have populated the state in 1769, the year first encountered white settlers. By 1870, due to general mistreatment, massacres, disease, dispossession, and other indignities, the population of California Indians had shrunk to about 58,000. Northern Californian tribes included the Modoc, Pomo, Wintun, Hupa, Yana, Yuki, and Yurok. (text from a plaque on the wall)
