Areas of Examination
|  Neahkahnie Mountain, Oregon
* "The World Encompassed by Francis Drake” is the journal of Rev. Francis Fletcher who accompanied Francis Drake on his voyage of circumnavigation 1577-1580. It would be hard to find a Drake enthusiast, amateur or professional, who would not rate this book the number one reference source of the voyage. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it was customary for the secular membership to be the chronologer on officially sanctioned excursions. |
A California Drake theorist, Professor Robert Heizer, University of California at Berkeley, one of the leading professional ethnographic authorities, relied heavily on the authenticity of the “plate of brass” in his 1947 thesis to prove the California Miwok and Pomo Indians were the natives Drake came into contact with in 1579.22 In 1974, then believing the plate was a hoax, Heizer states;
“We have to admit we know very little about the particular form of Indian culture… and even the native language spoken there [ Northern California Miwok/Pomo] up to about 1800 A.D. is in some doubt.”
We will see in Chapter 4 of Francis Drake In Nehalem Bay 1579 that the Indians Drake met were the Nehalem.
“We have to admit we know very little about the particular form of Indian culture… and even the native language spoken there [ Northern California Miwok/Pomo] up to about 1800 A.D. is in some doubt.”
We will see in Chapter 4 of Francis Drake In Nehalem Bay 1579 that the Indians Drake met were the Nehalem.
