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1. An Archaeological Overview of Portions of the North Coast Ranges and Northwestern California - Tamez, Sonia A.

   "An archaeological overview, sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management, in the preparation of the cultural resource element of an environmental statement for the District Timber Management Program, as required by the 1969 Environmental Policy Act." "The study areas consist of approximately 64,000 acres of National Resource Lands, unevenly distributed in Trinity, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma and Lake Counties." "The fundamental objectives of...

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2. Chief Of The Pomos : Life Story of Allen James - Connor, Ann M., editor

   History of Allen James family and related events; mini history by Herman James, father of Chief Allen James; cultural aspects of the Kashia Tribe; photos included.

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3. Comanche, the recalcitrant mule & the Mendocino reservation - Tassin, A.G.

   An animal story/anecdote, about a mule (Comanche), at Camp Wright in northern California, in the foothills of the Coast Ranche in Mendocino County, within a mile of the "old Nome-cult Indian reservation."

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4. Cultures in collision : an ethnohistory of the Huchnom - Kaldveer, Urmas

   This is a thoroughly-researched depiction of the Huchnom people, who lived at the confluence of Tomki Creek and the Eel River in Mendocino County. Each of three sections uncover the Huchnom’s ancestry and territory, including linguistic and archeological evidence; their ways of life and social culture; and the history of their interaction with Europeans, which led to their removal from their ancestral lands.

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5. Eye of the bear : a history novel of early California - West, Naida

   First in the California Gold Trilogy consisting of 1. Eye of the Bear, 2. River of Red Gold, and 3. Rest for the Wicked. Naida West, Ph.D., lives with her husband on their little ranch in California's "Gold Country." The ranch lies alongside the Cosumnes River, a primary setting in her novels. In Eye of the Bear, Grizzly Hair, a Miwok Indian, leaves his peaceful village in 1824 to investigate the mysteries of the Spanish missions. He's captured a...

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6. From mother to daughter : the Knight family collection of Pomo baskets - Laiwa, Lenette Virginia

   The information in this booklet is offered to teachers and students as an introduction to the richness of California Indian basketmaking through the Knight familly basket collection.

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7. Handbook of Yokuts Indians - Latta, Frank F.

   This is a general ethnography of the Yokuts Indians of the San Joaquin Valley, California. The following subjects are covered: tribal geography, the Yowlumne, trade, dress and communication, houses and housekeeping, foodstuffs, games, hunting and fishing, basketry, artistry, language and names, stories and ceremonies, and Indian statements (a collection of biographies from various informants).

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8. Identity Crises: Changes in life style of the Manchester band of Pomo Indians - Theodoratus, Dorothea J.

   Dissertation on the history and cultural influences on the Central Coast Pomo that lived near the areas of Point Arena and Manchester, California.

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9. Indian baskets of central California : art, culture, and history : native American basketry from San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay north to Mendocino and east to the Sierras - Shanks, Ralph C.

   Contents: San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay Area Basketry -- Basketry of the Interior Coast Range Mountains -- Basketry of the Sierra Nevada and the Delta.

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10. Indians of Lassen Volcanic National Park and vicinity - Schulz, Paul E.

    Indians of Lassen Volcation National Park: their history, their social life and customs. Illustrations and maps included.

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11. Lucy Young or T'tcetsa Indian/White Relations in Northwest California, 1846-1944 - Smith, Eric Krabbe

    This thesis focuses on the history of Indian-White Relations in northwestern California, studies and interpretations of Native American history, and places special biographical emplasis on Lucy Young (T'tcetsa).

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12. Memoirs of the Vallejos : new light on the history, before and after "the Gringos" came, based on original documents and the recollections of Dr. Platon M. G. Vallejo - Vallejo, Platon Mariano Guadalupe

    Platon Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was born 5 Feb 1841 to Mariano G. Vallejo and Maria Francisca Benicia Carillo in the San Francisco, California area. He married Lily Wiley in 1867. She was from New York. They were the parents of 4 children. As a doctor, Platon M. G. Vallejo practiced in Napa, Marin and Contra Costa counties. "Memoirs of the Vallejos appeared in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin serial form, January 26, 1914 through February 1...

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13. River of Red Gold - West, Naida

    The Unsettling of the West: A new look at the California Gold RushThis new edition of Naida West's best-seller includes details unavailable when originally researched in the early 1990s. The story based on real people and historical events is the same-the aftermath of the Donner Party, the first actual gold strikes, Pedro, Indian Mary and Elitha Donner, people of three cultures entwined in a drama of power and paradise lost. For centuries Indian ...

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14. Seven early accounts of the Pomo Indians and their culture - Heizer, Robert Fleming

    Contents: Yates, L. G. Notes on the Indians of Clear Lake.--Yates, L. G. Notes on the Aboriginal money of California.--Hudson, J. W. Pomo wampun makers.--Holmes, W. M. Pomo reservation, Mendocino County.--Merriam, C. H. Notes on the Clear Lake Pomo.--Barrett, S. A. Basket designs of the Pomo Indians.--Barrett, S. A. Pomo buildings.

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15. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources - Anderson, Kat M.

    John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries o...

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16. The autobiography of Delfina Cuero, a Diegueño Indian - Cuero, Delfina

    "Delfina Cuero was born in western San Diego County about 1900. Living as a nonreservation Indian in that urbanizing environment was too difficult, and while she was a child her family moved into an Indian community near Neji in Baja California. There she has lived a full, and basically successful, though in credibly impoverished life. Mrs. Shipek found her as the result of persistent effort to locate survivors of the heavily missionized Western ...

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17. The California Indians : A Source Book - Heizer, Robert Fleming

    A general survey of the Indians of California - their history, archaeology, material culture and economy and social culture; charts, maps, photos included.

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18. The California Indians : A Source Book - Heizer, Robert Fleming

    Collection of essays on the life of the California Indian covering their material and social cultures, archaeological findings , history, etc.; drawings, photos, maps included.

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19. The California Indians : A Source Book - Heizer, Robert Fleming

    A general survey of the Indians of California - their history, archaeology, material culture and economy and social culture; charts, maps, photos included.

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20. The Historical Development of Interior Sections of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties - Herbert, Rand F.

    "A report on the historical development of the interior sections of Humboldt and Mendocino counties, which was designed to meet the requirements of the Bureau of Land management, Ukiah District, arising from the preparation of an environmental impact statement for "Sustained Yield Unit 13." Essentially, the report area reflects the approximate locale of the Sustained Yield Unit lands located in widely scattered portions of Humboldt and Mendoci...

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