WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES
Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians
| This site is a copy of a paper by Ira
Jacknis and first published in American Indian Culture and Research
Journal, vol. 20, no. 3 (1996). According to the paper's author: "Although
Alfred Kroeber is universally regarded as the founder of California Indian
studies, his important use of the camera as an ethnographic tool is virtually
unknown. In fact, Kroeber was one of the first anthropologists to photograph
California Native peoples." Although the original paper was accompanied by photos, they are not included with this web site. [http://http://www.qal.berkeley.edu/~kroeber/kropho.htm] |
American Anthropology at the Turn of the Century: Alfred Kroeber and the Yurok
| This Website is being developed by the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthroplology
and the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.... AT present
(July 1997) the site consists of a few photographs of Kroeber, several Native
Californian consultants, including Ishi, with whom Kroeber worked, and one
of Yurok houses. [http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/humanities/anthro/museum.html] |
American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
| This site is " a non-federally funded intercultural partnership committed to assisting in the return of sacred ceremonial material to the appropriate American Indian Nation, clan, or family, and to educating the public about the importance of repatriation." The folks at this site act as conduits and/or facilitators, educators, and resources. The site features "News and Notes" and direct links to other relevant sites. You can access the National Archeological Database with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and other related documents. There is also an on-line Repatriation Guide to help understand and implement the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). |
| This is an excerpt of the "Ethnographic Background" section of
an archaeological report which presented the findings of an excavation of
an Ohlone site located in Scotts Valley, California. [http://www.cruzio.com/~sclibs/history/ohlone.html] |
Archaeology and History: California State Parks
| From this page you can explore some of the studies done on archaeological sites, historic structures and ancient artifacts in California. You can view such diverse topics as: Historic Sites and Structures, Tribal Areas of California, Cultural Resource Management, MIssions of the Californias, Prehistoric Archaeology, Underwater Archaeology, Rock Art, Artifact Collections, and Paleontology. There are lots of very nice photos accompanying most sections. I especially liked the Web Page dealing with the Ahjumawi Fish Traps. |
A Second Century of Dishonor: Federal Inequities and California Indians
| This Web Site, which is an on-going project of the UCLA American Indian
Studies Center, lays out the evidence to support the fact that "for
over 100 years California Indians are not receiving a fair share from federal
Indian programs; and because they have received less support from the federal
government, California Indians have suffered in social-economic well-being
relative to other Indian groups in other states." At present (July
1997), only 7 of the report's 14 chapters are on the Web. [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/indian/ca/Tribes.htm] |
Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
| This Web site has links to the complete Bibliographies, including an Introduction
(listing libraries where California Indian Library collections are located;
alternate names and/or spellings for tribal groups, an annotated bibliography
for Basic Library Collections), Maps (Linguistic Groups, Counties, Tribal
Groups, Tribal Areas Represented in Bibliographies), and the individual
Tribal Bibliographies. [http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/bibs/toc.html] |
Brian Gill: Repatriation Bibliography
| Although this bibliography was prepared in late 1995, many of the cited
works are very timely. Also, since the issue of repatriation crosses many
boundaries and does not fit into a neatly defined box, there are references
which deal with issues beyond repatriation laws, museums and local governments,
such as looting, private collections, the art market. [http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~nasp/repat.html] |
Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
| The Cabazon Band of Mission Indians are the descendants of Cahuilla Indians
who for several thousands of years occupied a large area of southern interior
desert California. This site contains information on their culture &history;
legislative issues; current economic development, including information
on the Fantasy Springs Casino; visitor information; &tribal administration. [http://www.cabazonindians.com/] |
California Artifact Collections
| The California State Park system has acquired and conserved a vast amount
of prehistoric artifacts. This site showcases, among other things, several
classes of California Indian artifacts, including abalone shell ornaments,
obsidian projectile points, charmstones, clamshell disk beads, and bone
tools. [http://www.indiana.edu/~maritime/caparks/artifact/artifactcol.html] |
| This journal, published quarterly by the California Historical Society, has many articles dealing with California Indians. Unfortunately, none are available for reading via the Web and there is no search function that allows one to rapidly locate those journal issues containing desired information. Instead, one visually examines Tables of Contents (listed by Volume and Number), listing by Authors, or the Subject Index, all of which are extremely time consuming. Furthermore, many of the key words in the Subject Index are without referents as to subject. However, for those willing to spend the time, there is a lot of information. For example, in the Caa-California Indians section of the Subject Index, one can locate the titles and Journal Issue of at least 100 articles dealing with the Native Peoples of California. The Index was last updated on 15 August 1996. [http://www.calhist.org/Pub.html] |
| This site showcases several California Indian baskets (of the more than
9,000) housed at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
A selected bibliography is also provided. [http://www.qal.berkeley.edu/~hearst/calbsktr.htm] |
California Indian Basketry, Shapes &Uses
| Photos of examples of various categories of baskets (plant food gathering
&transportation, storage, food preparation and serving, specialized,
fancy gift, traps) are provided at this site, along with a brief overview
of California Indian basketry manufacturing techniques. [http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/basket.html] |
California Indian Basketweavers Association
| This is the Home Page for the California Indian Basketweavers Association
whose purpose is to "preserve, promote &perpetuate California Indian
basketweaving traditions." There are essays devoted to, among other
things, the purpose, history &accomplishments of the Association, the
use of pesticides and their harmful effects on the health of Native plant
gatherers, and the role of basketmaking in Native Californian cultures. [http://www.hermeticsphere.com/CIBA.html] |
California Indian Library Collections
| "The California Indian Library Collections (CILC) was funded with the
aim of returning unique cultural materials to California's Native Americans
and making the collections available to all citizens through their local
libraries. Archived sound recordings, photographs, and textual materials
(such as books, journal articles, unpublished manuscripts and field notes,
many of which were gathered by Berkeley researchers in the early years of
this century) have been duplicated and installed in twenty-one northern
and central California libraries. Each county collection contains materials
specific to the tribes within that county. A composite CILC set is also
located in the California Room at the California State Library in Sacramento." The California Indian Library has also published and made available on the Web forty-three Tribal Bibliographies and has begun a pilot proejct to electronically digitize their collections. Two such electronic, tribal collections (featuring photographs and sound recordings from the Hearst Museum) have been published to date, The Pomo Indians and the Miwok Indians, both of which are available in the Reference Area at the Cabrillo College Library. There is also a very nice Web page on Shape and Uses of California Indian Baskets as well as an Annotated Bibliography for Basic Library Collections, useful in building a core collection of materials on California Indians. [http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/brochure/brochure.html] |
California Prehistoric Archaeology
| This site is one of several prepared by the California State Parks Department.
There are links to several important California Indian archaeological resources:
Torrey Pines Reserve, Eel River Petroglyph Sits, and the Ahjumawi Fish Traps.
[http://www.indiana.edu/~maritime/caparks/prearch.html] |
California's Lost Tribes: A Special Report
This is a series of four articles by Stephen Magagnini, Bee Staff writer, that appeared in the Sacramento Bee newspaper in June, 1997:
A Photo Gallery, consisting of images that accompanied the original newspaper
articles, is included at this Web site. |
| This site is one of several prepared by the California State Parks Department,
and they should be ashamed of themselves for this one. It's a partial listing
of native groups in California, adapted from California Indians by
Linda Spizzirri. The sequence of presentation and the incorrect descriptions
of the native peoples leave much to be desired. For example, one is told
that the Miwok lived mostly between present-day San Franciso and Monterey,
when in fact speakers of Miwok lived in Marin County, eastward across the
southern end of the Sacramento Valley, and into the foothills of the Sierra
Nevada. Also, the author repeatedly states that such and such a group spoke
Hokan, or Penutian when in fact no one speaks either of these since they
are not languages but names given to language families. To say that the
Chumash spoke Hokan (as this web site's author does) is like saying people
in Spain speak Romance. [http://ceres.ca.gov/ceres/calweb/native.html] |
| For at least 10,000 years the Chumash and their predecessors occupied the
south-central coastal region of California and at some point they began
to produce magnificent polychromatic rock paintings. Dr. William Hyder (UC
Santa Cruz), an archaeologist with research interests in Chumash rock art,
is in the process of building this Web Site and bringing these beautiful
works of art to the Internet. His site features maps with embedded links
to other pages, some of which graphically display the general location of
Chumash rock art sites, while others have brief overviews of the natural
and cultural history of the rock art site areas (along with bibliographies),
a site catalog, but unfortunately one a single image. However, Dr. Hyder
has made available several other photographs in his On-line paper The Shamanic Tradition
in Chumash Rock Art. [http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/Comp/Bill/chumash.html] |
Contemporary Native American Voices
| Patrick Orozco (Yana Hea), a Monterey Bay Ohlone, has been sharing
his knowledge of his people with students for the last eighteen years. He
notes that when he was growing up his people "came to know ourselves
as California Mission Indians. This is what was passed down to us from generation
to generation. It was because of an Indian uprising that took place in February
of 1975 in a dispute over a warehouse that was constructed on a portion
of our Indian cemetery in Watsonville an awareness opened up among all Indian
people that we need to protect the sacred places where their ancestors were
laid to rest. We realized that something had to be done to bring back our
culture and our traditional ways. This is what we committed ourselves to
do. My Grandmother said, 'Go! Go and do what you have to do.' " [http://www.dedot.com/mchs/orozco.html] |
| This site has very little to do with the use of acorns by Native Californians.
But, I have included it here since over the years many of my students have
asked for recipes using acorn flour. This site has just that: recipes for
making acorn stew, acorn bread, acorn griddle cakes, and venison-acorn stew. [http://www.redhawk.org/acorn.html] |
Costanoan - Ohlone: Indian Canyon Resource Center
| PLEASE NOTE: As of 12 Oct 2000, clicking on the hot link for this site <http://www.ucsc.edu/costano/index.html>did NOT take you to the site, but to a page stating that access via the current URL was forbidden. This is very unfortunate, as the site contains a wealth of information concerning the Costanoan (Ohlone) and other Indigenous Californians of yesterday and today: History, Current Events, Contacts, Native American Experience. One could learn about: the Sacred Use of Tobacco; the 18 Treaties With America, treaties which the Native Californians signed in good faith but which the U.S. government refused to sign, did not tell the Native Peoples of this, and then placed a seal of secrecy on the treaties for more than a half a century; read the 1851-1852 Act For the Governance and Protection of the California Native Peoples, which in reality was the State's way to institutionalize slavery of the Native Peoples; hear Dine leader John Benally. Indian Canyon also hosts the Wiyot (Table Bluff) Tribe of California Web page. And while you're here, make sure to take time to visit the Virtual Lodge. And if your browser supports movies you can take a special computer generated Tour of Indian Canyon. |
| For over a century and a half, the native peoples of California have been
subjected to racism, murder, and more frequently than many supposed, the
unspeakable horrors of genocide. This article, by Jeff Elliott of the Albion
Monitor, discusses the coming of Whites to Round Valley, Mendocino County,
California in the 1850s and the subsequent rounding up of the native peoples
and their removal (referred to as the "Death March" by the descendants
of those Native People involved) to the Nome Cult reservation. As Mr. Elliott
notes, the reservation "became a convenient place to dump Natives when
whites ran out of bullets or the nerve to murder." This is an excellent
article about one of California's darker and bloodier historical events. [http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9-2-95/history.html] |
Defense of Homelands - California Indians for Cultural and Environmental Protection
| This Web Site is hosted by a group of California Indian people who have
started an organization "to assist tribes and individuals in the area
of cultural and environmental protection." [http://www.honorearth.com/infonet/defense/california.html] |
Deupree Cradle Board Collection
| This Web site has photos of cradle boards from various Native American nations
including Pomo, Hupa, Paiute, and Mono. [http://www.cpb.uokhsc.edu/okc/kirk/re-cradle.html] |
| This Web Site by Dr. Gary Breschii and Trudy Haversat summarizes what is
known about the Esselen, "one of the least numerous groups in California,
and are often cited, incorrectly, as the first California group to become
culturally extinct." Included in the essay is an excellent map of Esselen
territory, based on the authors' extensive ethnographic, ethnohistoric,
and archaeological researches, along with wonderful photographs of various
parts of Esselen territory. Similar essays on the Salinan and Ohlone are
forthcoming. [http://www.monterey.edu/history/esselen.html] |
Federal Inequities and California Tribes
| The title says it all. This is a report prepared in 1996 by the UCLA American
Indian Studies Center for the Advisory
Council on California Indian Policy. The report documents what the Native
Californians have known all along: for over a century the California Indians
have not received their fair share of Federal programs, resulting in a decline
in social and economic well-being relative to other Native American groups
in other states. Presently, only 7 of the 14 chapters are available on-line. [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/indian/ca/Tribes.htm] |
From Peace to Present: A Look at the Ohlone Indians
| This essay by Heather Hemingway was written as a class assignment in CSU
Monterey Bay's History of the Monterey Bay Area, 10,000 B.C. to Steinbeck.
Take the time to read it. It's well worth it. [http://www.dedot.com/mchs/ohlonepeace.html ] |
A History of the Mechupooda (Madiu) Tribe
| The Mechoopda are a subgroup of the northwestern Maidu, people whose pre-Euroamerican
homelands lay east of Sacramento in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas
of California. This Web Site gives a succinct overview of their history
and culture prior to White colonization, along with overviews of the contact
period (especially during the Gold Rush), the 1851 treaty fiasco, the reservation
period, forced assimilation, the termination era, and the conditions under
which the Mechupooda live today. [http://"www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~adamw/tribal/mechoopda.html] |
History of the San Diego Natives the Kumeyaay
| The Kumeyaay and their ancestors have occupied the region from San Diego,
California south to Ensenada, Baja California and they were among the earliest
of the Native Californians to feel the heels of European colonialist expansion.
This Web Site offers a brief look at various aspects of Kumeyaay culture
and history, including their own oral history of the destruction wrought
during the time of the Spanish missions. NOTE: This site is part of the
California
Mission Internet Trail collection of sites. [http://www.escusd.k12.ca.us/pages/mission_trail/SanDiego/SDnatives.html] |
History of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
| This site has a short history of the San Manuel Band (Serrano) of California
("Mission") Indians as well as material related to issues of Sovereignty.
Additionally, there are pages on the creation of their Gambling Casino,
its effect on employment, the creation of scholarship programs, along with
links to pages discussing the history and creation of the Indian Gaming
Regulation Act and the National Indian Gaming Commission. [http://www.sanmanuel.com/Smbmi.html] |
| This site, created by Dr. Tad Beckman, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA,
site offers a wealth of information and resources for studing the Indians
of California. Short informative essays are provided on a variety of topics
along with Links to a selection of general resources (Informative Books,
Useful Maps, Historical Sketch, California Web Resources) and to essays
and maps describing particular culture areas in California (at present -
July 1997 - the only active Web pages are for the Northwest Coast, Southern
Coast, Southern Desert, and Eastern Sierra culture areas). One of the nicest
features of this site is the News from Native California page. [http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/indian/welcome.html] |
Journal of the Kroeber Anthropological Society Vol. 78: Cumulative Index
| The Index covers Volumes 1 through 89 and is subdivided into Author, Subject
and Volume indexes and one may view any page by clicking on the letter or
volume entries. Materials covered by the Journal range from Native California
to South America and beyond. [http://www.qal.berkeley.edu/~kas/] |
Juaneño Band of Mission Indians - Acjachemen Nation
| This site contains lots of information on the Juaneño, including
a Fact Sheet, a Brief Chronology, Current Events, an update on their attempts
to get federal recognition. [http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~m2martin/juaneno.html] |
| This site was created by Samuel Brown, a Kumeyaay born and raised on the
Viejas Reservation in San Diego County, CA His web site contains a number
of Kumeyaay words and phrases (with a Java Applet which lets you hear the
words). Not only is his site educational, but it is very entertaining to
try and learn to speak Kumeyaay. He has also included some Kumeyaay songs
and stories. This is definitely one site to visit. [http://www.kumeyaay.org] |
| This site contains a series of articles prepared by the students at Woodland
School (K through sixth grade), in Mariposa County, California. There are
also student prepared articles on Mariposa history, the 49er miners and
the Mother Lode, as well as some of the area's famous former residents. [http://www.yosemite.net/mariposa/schools/woodland/miwok.htm] |
Native Americans and the Environment Web Site. California Bibliography
| A great Web Site - lots of references on the inter-relationship of the Native
Californians and their environments. [http://conbio.rice.edu/nae/biblios/b_region_calif.html] |
Native American Studies, CSU Humboldt
| Located in Northern California, the site is particularly valuable for information
about California Indian tribes, resources for Native Americans of California,
links to tribal home pages in other parts of the U.S., and links to topics
such as Native American legal information which include the texts of some
of the treaties with the U.S. and Canada. Also included is a list of Native
American journals, newsletter and newspapers and a list of fellowships,
internships, grants and loans for Native Americans. [http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~nasp/] |
NATIVE-L (May 1994): California Indians
| A short paper summarizing the relations between the Native Californians
and the Euro-Americans in the years shortly after 1848. [http://bioc09.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/9405/0117.html] |
Native Americans and Early Settlers of Mendocino and Humbold Counties, California
This Site consists of a series of articles written by Gene Barnett, Innkeeper at Bell Glen Resort in the Redwoods. According to him, his pages will give one "three perspectives on the conflict between Native Americans and settlers -- the daily life of the native, the daily life of the white settler, and an account of the clashes between the two." So that you can have an idea of this site before going there, here is a quote from Mr. Bell:
I wonder if Mr. Bell is aware that the men who attacked and murdered an entire village of Wiyots were leading citizens of the towns of Arcata and Eureka. Anyway, you should look at this site so you can have a broader appreciation for what is out there on the Web. [http://redwoods.com/~ebarnett/native.html] |
Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation
A brief overview of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited (and whose descendants
still inhabit) the central coastal region of California. Among the topics
discussed are the names and locations of the various villages and district
locations; the etyology of the previous and current names for the Nations
of this area; a brief overview of Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen history since
the coming of the Europeans and Euro-Americans; and what is happening among
the Esselen today. A good companion Web site is Esselen
Indians, a Web site prepared by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat
which focuses primarily on the pre-European history of the Esselen. It has
very well-done maps showing the national boundaries of the various Esselen
Nations, along with excellent photos of various localities in Esselen territory. |
This is the official Home Page of the Tribe whose class action lawsuit (Hardwicke vs US) against the Federal government forced the reinstatement of Federal Status to 17 California tribes who had been illegally terminated. The site is well designed with succinct pages on:
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| This site contains two links. One to a paper by Breck Parkman, Associate
State Archaelogists, which "examines Pomoan cosmology, the supernatural
landscape, and the special portals through which individuals accessed the
other world. Of special importance are the boundaries which delineated the
cultural and supernatural realms, thus creating a supernatural frontier
in Pomoan cosmology. As will be seen, the frontier manifested itself cognitively
in a number of areas, including rock, water, elevation, menstruation, and
death." The other links is to a gallery of photos which amplify Mr.
Parkman's thesis. [http://www.indiana.edu/~maritime/caparks/rockart/pomo/pomo.html] |
Pomo Indian Tribes of California
Another superb collection of interrelated essays created and brought to the WWW by Paula Giese. Essays include:
All in all, this is a very impressive, as well as thought-provoking,
Web site, and Ms. Giese deserves accolades for her work. |
Public Domain Allotment Land in the State of California
This site contains an essay by Gaylen Lee, BIA Policy Board Member Area VII, and appeared originally in NOSO-N, the Newsletter of Indian Canyon Nation. The essay addresses the issue of allotment (a Federal policy of the late 1880s whereby a qualified Indian could settle on unappropriated public domain land) and the lack of Federal responsibility towards California Indians who live on allotted lands, especially the Federal government's failure to provide adequate water, housing, roads, financial aid to students and home owners. Links are provided to: a document discussing the particular historical
circumstances of California tribes vis-a-vis the 1851
treaties which were negotiated between various California Indian Nations
and the Federal government; a multicolored map delineated both the lands ceded by the
California Indians to the Federal government and the lands the Indians
were to retain as theirs. |
Repatriation Bibliography by Brian Gill, CSU Humboldt
| A link from the Native American Studies page listed above, this bibliography
is the product of a research project on Repatriation of Cultural Resources
of Native Americans. It includes newspaper, magazine and journal articles.
Many of the entries are from newspapers not found in major indexes. [http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~nasp/repat.html] |
| This K-8th grade school, located in Chatsworth, California, was the recipient
of the U.S. Department of Education's Distinguishing School Award of
Excellence. In 1996 the faculty, student body, and parents created a
Cyberfair '96 web presentation on People of Our Past, a thoughtful
and sensitive account of the Chumash people who lived, and still life, in
the area where their school was built. Take some time and visit this site.
It's a great site! [http://cyberfair.gsn.org/sierra/index.html] |
| I highly recommend this site. The Tachi Yokut Tribe has done a marvelous
job in assembling a vast amount of information about their people and has
made it available to the world. One very nice feature of their site is their
"Archives" section which allows one to view all 18 unratified
treaties that were made between the U.S. and SOME native Californians. [http://www.tachi-yokut.com/main.html] |
University of San Diego Native American Web Site
| This web site was created by Prob. nancy Carol Carter, School of Law, and
contains a wealth of information on the Indigenous Peoples of San Diego
County, including a chronology and a listing of Indian Reservations in San
Diego County. [http://www.acusd.edu/nativeamerican/] |
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