Primary

Aldrich, Fay, and Ida McBride. Ancient Legends of the California Indians of the Redwood Empire. Orick, CA: published by the authors, 1939.

Angulo, Jaime de. Indian Tales. New York: Hill & Wang, 1953.

Anon. The Case of the Mission Indians in Southern California, and the Action of the Indian Rights Association in Supporting the Defence of Their Legal Rights. Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1886.

Blackburn, Thomas C., ed. Decemberís Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Botta, Paul Emile. Observations on the Inhabitants of California, 1827-1828. Translated by John Francis Bricca. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1952.

Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton. Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851, Which Led to That Event. Los Angeles: G.W. Gerlicher, 1911.

Castillo, Edward D. "An Indian Account of the Decline and Collapse of Mexicoís Hegemony Over the Missionized Indians of California." American Indian Quarterly 13, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 391-409.

Clark, Galen. Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity, their History, Customs and Traditions. Yosemite Valley, CA: Galen Clark, 1910.

Currie, Ann H. A Maidu Story. Berkeley, CA: Brandes Printing Co., 1963.

Dangberg, Grace M., ed. Letters to Jack Wilson, the Paiute Prophet, Written between 1908-1911. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections Project, 1989.

Dixon, Roland B. "The Northern Maidu: The Huntington California Expedition." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 17, no. 3 (1905): 119-346.

Du Bois, Constance Goddard. The Condition of the Mission Indians of Southern California. Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1901.

DuBois, Cora. Wintu Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1935.

Eccleston, Robert. The Mariposa Indian War, 1850-1851. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1957.

Erdoes, Richard, and Alfonso Ortiz. American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Fisher, Anne B. Stories California Indians Told. Berkeley: Parnassus Press, 1957.
Geiger, Maynard J., ed. Documents. Questionnaire of the Spanish Government in 1812 Concerning the Native Culture of the California Mission Indians. Washington, D.C., 1949.

Geiger, Maynard, and Clement W. Meighan, eds. As the Padres Saw Them: California Indian Life and Customs as Reported by the Franciscan Missionaries, 1813-1815. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 1976.

Gifford, Edward Winslow. California Indian Nights Entertainments; Stories of the Creation of the World, of Man, of Fire, of the Sun, of Thunder, etc.; of Coyote, the Land of the Dead, the Sky Land, Monsters, Animal People, etc. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1930.

Gordon, Mary McDougall, ed. Through Indian Country to California: John P. Sherburneís Diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Graves, Charles Sumner. Lore and Legends of the Klamath River Indians. Yreka, CA: Press of the Times, 1929.

Heizer, Robert F., ed. George Gibbsí Journal of Redick Mckeeís Expedition Through Northwestern California in 1851. Berkeley: University of California, Dept. of Anthropology, 1972.

Heizer, Robert F., ed. The Destruction of California Indians; A Collection of Documents from the Period 1847 to 1865. Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1974.

Heizer, Robert F., ed. The Four Ages of Tsurai; A Documentary History of the Indian Village on Trinidad Bay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.

Heizer, Robert F., ed. They Were Only Diggers; A Collection of Articles from California Newspapers, 1851-1866, on Indian and White Relations. Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1974.

Jewell, Donald P. Indians of the Feather River: Tales and Legends of Concow Maidu of California. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1987.

Knoop, Anna Marie. The Federal Indian Policy in the Sacramento Valley, 1846-1860. Berkeley, CA, 1941.

Kolb, Kenneth. The Maidu Indians of Plumas County, California: Plumas Unified School District and The Indian Advisory Boar and the Maidu People, n.d.

Kroeber, A. L. Yurok Myths. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis. Basic Report on California Indian Land Holdings: Selected Writings of Kroeber on Land Use and Political Organization of California Indians. New York: Garland Pub. Inc., 1974.

Merriam, C. Hart. "Distribution of Indian Tribes in the Southern Sierra and Adjacent Parts of the San Joaquin Valley, California." Science 19 (1904): 912-17.

Merriam, C. Hart. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Miller, Joaquin. My Own Story (Or, My Life Amongst the Modocs). Chicago: Belford-Clarke, 1890.

Peterson, Bonnie J., ed. Dawn of the World: Coast Miwok Myths. Fairfax, CA: The Tamal Land Press, 1976.

Powers, Stephen. Stephen Powers, Californiaís First Ethnologist: and, Letters of Stephen Powers to John Wesley Powell Concerning Tribes of California. Berkeley: Archaeological Research Facility, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.

Powers, Stephen. The Northern California Indians: A Reprinting of 19 Articles on California Indians, Originally Published 1872-77. Berkeley: Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.

Powers, Stephen. Tribes of California. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Office, 1877.

Raphael, Ray. An Everyday History of Somewhere, Being the True Story of Indians, Deer, Homesteaders, Potatoes, Loggers, Trees, Fishermen, Salmon, and Other Living Things in the Backwoods of Northern California. New York: Knopf, 1974.

Shipley, William, ed. The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hancíibyjim. Berkeley: Heydey Books, 1991.

Smith, Bertha H. Yosemite Legends. San Francisco: P. Elder & Co., 1904.

Smith, Elinor Shane. Po-ho-no and Other Yosemite Legends, Including "In the Far Beginning of Years"; Primitive Myths of the Yosemite Indians. Monterey, CA, 1927.

Steward, Julian H. Myths of the Owens Valley Paiute. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1936.

Warburton, Austen D. Indian Lore of the Northern California Coast. Santa Clara, CA: Pacific Pueblo Press, 1966.

Wilson, Benjamin Davis. The Indians of Southern California in 1852; the B.D. Wilson Report and Selection of Contemporary Comment; J. W. Caughey, ed., San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1952.
 

Secondary

Anderson, Kat, and Thomas C. Blackburn, eds. Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1993.

Anderson, Terry, ed. Property Rights and Indian Economies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992.

Bailin, Roxanne. One of the Last Human Hunts of Civilization, and the Basest and Most Brutal of Them All. San Francisco: Justice for the Pitt River Tribe, 1971.

Barrett, S. A. Material Aspects of Pomo Culture. Vol. 29, Parts I and II, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, 1952.

Barrett, S.A., and E.W. Gifford. Miwok Material Culture. Vol. 2, No. 4, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, 1933.

Bath, Catherine S., and Joyce E Fowler. Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute Fishing: The Ethnographic Record. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections Project, 1989.

Baumhoff, M. A. Ecological Determinants of Aboriginal California Populations, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Beals, Ralph Leon. Indian Land Use and Occupancy in California. New York: Garland Pub. Inc., 1974.

Bean, Lowell J. Mukatís People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Bean, Lowell J., and Thomas Blackburn. Native Californians, a Theoretical Retrospective. Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1976.

Bettinger, R.L. "Aboriginal Human Ecology in Owens Valley: Prehistoric Change in the Great Basin [and following discussions." American Antiquity 42;44;46 (1977, 1979, 1981): 3-17; 345-59; 648-60.

Brown, Alan K. "Indians of San Mateo County." La Peninsula; Journal of the San Mateo County Historical Association 17 (Winter 1973-74).

Burrill, Richard. River of Sorrows: Life History of the Maidu-Nisenan Indians. Happy Camp, CA: Naturegraph Publishers, 1988.

Coffer, W.E. "Genocide of the California Indians; With a Comparative Study of Other Minorities." Indian History 10 (Spring 1977): 8-15.

Cook, Sherburne F. Migration and Urbanization of the Indians in California. Baltimore, 1943.

Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943.

Cook, Sherburne F. The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Coombs, G., and F. Plog. "The Conversion of the Chumash Indians: An Ecological Interpretation." Human Ecology 5 (1977): 309-28.

Couro, Ted. San Diego County Indians as Farmers and Wage Earners. Pomona: Ballena Press, 1975.

Davis, Emma Lou. An Ethnography of the Kuzedika Paiute of Mono Lake, Mono County, California, Anthropological Papers, no. 75. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, n.d.

Dillon, R. Burnt-Out Fires: Californiaís Modoc Indian War. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

Dippie, Brian W. The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1982.

Downs, James Francis. Washo Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

Dutton, Bertha P. The Rancheria, Ute, and Southern Paiute Peoples. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Egan, Ferol. Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

Elsasser, Robert F. Heizer and Albert B. The Natural World of California Indians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Farris, Glenn J. "Recognizing Indian Folk History as Real History: A Fort Ross Example." American Indian Quarterly 13, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 471-81.

Fernandez, R. "Evaluating the Loss of Kinship Structures: A Case Study of North American Indians." Human Organization 46, no. Spring (1987): 1-9.

Fletcher, Thomas C. Paiute, Prospector, Pioneer: The Bodie-Mono Lake Area in the Nineteenth Century. Lee Vining, CA: Artemisia Press, 1987.

Forbes, Jack D. "Indian Horticulture West and Northwest of the Colorado River." Journal of the West (1963).

Forbes, Jack D. "The Native American Experience in California History." California Historical Quarterly 50, no. 3 (1971): 234-42.

Forde, Cyril Daryll. Ethnography of the Yuma Indians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931.

Franklin, Pamela A. Bunte and Robert J. From the Sands to the Mountain: Change and Persistence in a Southern Paiute Community. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Frye, Melinda Young, ed. Native and Settlers: Indian and Yankee Culture in Early California: The Collections of Charles P. Wilcomb. Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1979.

Galvan, P. "The Ohlone Story." The Indian Historian 1, no. 2 (1968).

Gayton, Anna H. "Culture-Environment Integration: References in Yokuts Life." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 2 (1946): 252-68.

Gayton, Anna H. The Ghost Dance of 1870 in South-Central California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930.

Gayton, Anna Hadwick. Yokuts and Western Mono Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948.

Gayton, Anna Hadwick. Yokuts-Mono Chiefs and Shamans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930.

Gordon, Burton L. Monterey Bay Area: Natural History and Cultural Imprints. Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1974.

Gould, R. A. "Ecology and Adaptive Response Among the Tolowa Indians of Northwestern California." Journal of California Anthropology 2 (1975): 148-70.

Guest, Florian F. "The Indian Policy Under Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, Californiaís Second Father President." The California Historical Society Quarterly XLV, no. 3 (1966): 195-224.

Guest, Francis F. "An Examination of the Thesis of S. F. Cook on the Forced Conversion of Indians in the California Missions." Southern California Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1979).

Heizer, Robert F. Aboriginal California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Heizer, Robert F., and A.J. Almquist. The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Heizer, Robert F., and Adam E. Treganza. Mines and Quarries of the Indians of California. Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1972.

Heizer, Robert F., and Albert B. Elsasser. The Natural World of the California Indians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Heizer, Robert F., and Gordon W. Hewes. Animal Ceremonialism in Central California in the Light of Archaeology. Lancaster, PA, 1940.

Heizer, Robert F., and T. K. Whipple, eds. The California Indians: A Source Book. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971.

Hill, Dorothy J. Maidu Use of Native Flora and Fauna, Chico, CA, 1972.

Hoopes, Chad L. "Redick McKee and the Humboldt Bay Region, 1851-1852." California Historical Quarterly 49, no. 3 (1970): 195-219.

Hudson, Travis, and Ernest Underhay. Crystals in the Sky: An Intellectual Odyssey Involving Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology, and Rock Art. Socorro, NM: Ballena Press, 1978.

Hughes, J. Donald. American Indian Ecology. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983.

Hundley, Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Hurt, R. Douglas. Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Hurtado, Albert L. "California Indian Demography, Sherburne F. Cook, and the Revision of American History." Pacific Historical Review 58, no. 3 (August 1989): 323-44.

Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Johnson, N.B. "The American Indian as Conservationist." Chronicles of Oklahoma 30 (1952): 333-40.

Jones, K. W. Gobalet and T. L. "Prehistoric Native American Fisheries of the Central California Coast." Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124, no. 6 (1995): 813-23.

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Kroeber, Theodora, Albert Elsasser, and Robert Heizer. Drawn From Life: California Indians in Pen and Brush. Socorro, NM: Ballena Press, 1977.

Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

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Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the Monterey-San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1978.

Margolin, Malcolm. The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs. Berkeley: Heydey Books, 1981.

Masson, Marcelle. A Bag of Bones, the Wintu Myths of a Trinity River Indian. Oakland, CA, 1966.

Mayer, P.J. Miwok Balanophagy: Implications for the Cultural Development of California Acorn Eaters. Berkeley: Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, 1976.

McEvoy, Arthur. The Fishermanís Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

McGovern, Dan. The Campo Indian Landfill War: The Fight for Gold in Californiaís Garbage. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

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Meighan, Clement W., and Robert F. Heizer. "Archaeological Exploration of Sixteenth-Century Indian Mounds at Drakeís Bay." American Antiquity 31 (1952): 99-108.

Minshall, Herbert L. The Broken Stones: The Case for Early Man in California. La Jolla, CA: Copley Books, 1976.

Moriarty, J. R. "Factors Motivating the Rejection of Agriculture in pre-Hispanic Southern California." American Indian Quarterly 7, no. 1 (1983): 41-56.

Ortiz, Beverly R. "Mount Diablo as Myth and Reality: An Indian History Convoluted." American Indian Quarterly 13, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 457-71.

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