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KATHLEEN SCAVONE Long before the first winemakers dotted the Napa Valley with buildings and caves constructed by Chinese laborers, the Wappo people thrived in this region. According to ethnographic studies by A. L. Kroeber, there were up to 3,000 Wappo and Wintun Native Americans living in the Napa Valley around 1843, including those residing in the Russian River area near Healdsburg. Another indigenous group that once lived in the valley was the Patwin tribe. The census of 1910 found only 73 Wappo people. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. The Wappoâs settlements lay, for the most part, in the valley, but their territory extended to the mountain regions. ....
The following is excerpted from Michael Bible s novel, The Ancient Hours , a fable of the American South in the highest tradition. Bible s work has appeared in the Oxford American, The Paris Review Daily, and Al-Jazeera America, among others. He is a former bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and lives in New York. Another night at the Starlight Diner and Ms. Rivers takes our orders. The horizon is a black sliver against the sun. All our old mysteries unite. Our coffees get cold. We call our wives and tell them not to wait up. We present our latest research to the group. Harmony had a much darker history than the one we were told. On that eighth-grade trip Mayor Presley left out the Molasses Massacre. We found it in our research with many other stories the town fathers wished to remain forgotten. ....
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