Our canyon lies within the ethnographic territory of the Wappo people, or the Micewal as they called themselves, inhabited as early as 5,500 to 7,500 years ago. The Wappo sustained themselves by collecting acorns, buckeye, seeds, roots, berries, clover, and other plant material and by hunting deer, elk, rabbits, birds, and other small game. Our canyon was not actively occupied given the steep slopes and distance from year-round running water. We occasionally find spear points made of obsidian from nearby Glass Mountain in the woods behind our vineyard indicating our canyon was a well-used hunting site. Obsidian flakes, waste from chipping spear points, are scattered in some of the vineyard blocks.