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1. A Composite Myth of the Pomo Indians - Barrett, Samuel A.

   Reprinted from the Journal of American folk-lore, v. 19, no. 72, 1906. "The following is a typical myth of the Pomo Indians of California, and will serve to show some of the characteristics of Pomo mythology. It will be noted that this particular myth is a composite consisting of six elements or separate, though logically connected, ideas: Coyote as a trickster, and the miraculous birth of his children; the destruction of the world by fire; th...

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2. An Archaeological Survey of the Yuki: Etsel-Franciscan Reservoir Region, Mendocino County, California - Treganza, Adan Eduardo

   This report presents the results of an archaeological survey of the region occupied in historic times by the Yuki Indians about 200 miles north of San Francisco Bay, in Mendocino County. The area lies wholly within the drainage pattern of the Middle Fork of the Eel River and includes Eden, Williams, Hull, and Round valleys.

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3. A summary of Yuki culture - Foster, George M.

   This study is a detailed ethnographic description of aboriginal Yaki culture based on the memories of native informants who were living at the time of the author's field work in 1937. Major topics discussed in this work are: the economy; material culture; socio-political organization; life cycle events; leisure time activities (e.g., games, gambling, etc.); religion and the supernatural; shamanism and curing; and modern (ca. 1937) religious devel...

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4. Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women - Colson, Elizabeth

   A detailed autobiography of 3 Pomo women, with their individual stories. Assembled in 1945 but not published, until this 1974 edition at Berkeley. Published by Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley.

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5. Boundary Descriptions of California Indian Stocks and Tribes - Merriam, C. Hart

   This report briefly describes the geographic boundaries for California Indian stocks and tribes. It is divided linguistically, and includes the Cupeño and Luiseño under Shoshone.

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6. California Indian resource guide : Mendocino County, California - Davis, Lee

   "The purpose of The California Indian Resource Guide: Mendocino County is to bring together information that is valuable and useful to California Indian people and other communities in Mendocino County. This guide brings together information that is scattered in several different sources or only known through personal networks. The scope of California Indian Resource Guide includes resources, services, agencies, policies, and materials that sup...

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7. Census of non-reservation California Indians, 1905-1906 - Kelsey, C.E.

   C. E. Kelsey's census of nonreservation Indians in Northern California in 1905 to 1906 was the first enumeration of its kind. It counted 11,755 Indians that were not supported by the US government, which was far more than were thought to exist. Intended as the blueprint for implementing Kelsey's proposed policy of providing federal relief through land purchases, the census was later used for population studies.

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8. Ethnographic notes on the Southwestern Pomo - Gifford, Edward W.

   Survey, history and notes regarding the Southwestern Pomo.

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9. Fishing Among the Indians of Northwestern California - Kroeber, A.L.

   Survey of the fishing methods and processes of the tribes of the northwestern California.

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10. Handbook Of The Indians Of California - Kroeber, A.L.

    The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the north they approximated the cultures of the Northwest Coast; in the center they developed distinctive, elaborate cultures based on local food supplies; and in the south and east they approximated the more primitive desert groups--all in all showing a host of adaptations within a relatively small geograph...

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11. Handbook Of The Indians Of California - Kroeber, A.L.

    The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the north they approximated the cultures of the Northwest Coast; in the center they developed distinctive, elaborate cultures based on local food supplies; and in the south and east they approximated the more primitive desert groups--all in all showing a host of adaptations within a relatively small geograph...

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12. Indian Names for Plants and Animals among Californian and other Western North American Tribes - Merriam, C. Hart

    Guide of the scientific and common names of plants and animals used by the Indians of North America in the western regions.

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13. Majority and minority reports of the Special Joint Committee on the Mendocino War - California. Legislature. Special Joint Committee on the Mendocino War

    In 1860, the California Legislature created a Joint Special Committee on the Mendocino Indian War to investigate incidents of Indian stealing and killing of settlers’ stock, and alleged atrocities committed by whites against the Indians. This report comprises their findings, issued as an appendix to the Journals of the State Senate and Assembly.

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14. Material Aspects Of Pomo Culture - Part One - Barrett, S.A.

    Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee - published March, 1952 - discussing the material aspects of the Pomo culture; native terms, food supply, property and harvest rights, ceremonies related to food, preparing food, meals & feasts, vegetal food, tobacco and pipes, hunting, fishing, tule, shelter, transportation, tools, war; photos and drawings included.

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15. Material Aspects of Pomo Culture - Part Two - Barrett, S.A.

    Bulletin of the Public Museum of the city of Milwaukee - printed August 1952 - discussing the social life and customs of the Pomo Indian: skin dressing, fire, basketry, cordage and nets, sinew, adhesives, beads, enumeration, dress, ceremonial dress, musical instruments, games, pets, mnemonic record, medicines, charms; photos included.

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16. Miwok Indians - Davis-Kimball, Jeannine

    The Miwok Indian CD-ROM is an interactive, multimedia collection. This archival material has been divided into nine searchable categories, each containing photographs, sound recordings, and textual material. To update the collection recently published textual materials and the status of the Miwok material culture have been included. The exhaustive Miwok bibliography is searchable by author, title, periodical, series, keyword, and holdings

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17. Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography - Stewart, Omer Call

    This document supplements the writings of such well-known ethnographers as Powers, Barrett, Loeb, Gifford and Kroeber on the Pomo. The primary purpose of this paper, as indicated by the author, was to first determine more exactly the range of probable subdivision indicated by A. L. Kroeber in his map of the Pomo, as it appeared in the Handbook of the Indians of California, and secondly to give information concerning food-getting habits of the Pom...

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18. Notes on the Chilula Indians of Northwestern California - Goddard, Pliny Earle

    "While this fragmentary account of the Chilula probably could be considerably extended and improved if circumstances permitted additional visits to the neighborhood, anything like a complete account would be impossible. Although it is only sixty-five years since they first came in contact with white people, they have ceased to exist as a separate people. In 1906 the northern villages were represented by a family consisting of an aged man, Tom Hil...

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19. People Of The Valley : The Concow Maidu - Chase, Don M

    Account of the Concow Indians from Round Valley - their ancestors being the Maidus tribes from the east side of the Sacrmento Valley; the relations of the white Californians to the Concow tribes from 1850 to 1900, the clashes of the different tribes within these areas and the greed of the American settlers of the 1850's in the hills and valley of Califronia; photos and drawings included.

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20. Po-ho-no and the legends of Yosemite, including "In the far beginning of years", primitive myths of the Yosemite Indians - Smith, Elinor Shane

    Legends and myths of the Yosemite Indidans.

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