Mountain Maidu and Pioneers

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450261760
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Mountain Maidu and Pioneers by : Patricia Kurtz

Download or read book Mountain Maidu and Pioneers written by Patricia Kurtz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEGINNING WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION of Indian Valley, Pat continues with descriptions of Mountain Maidu life upon the arrival of white men searching for gold in the northeastern Sierra. Initially relations remain peaceful between the Indians and whites, but eventually conflicts arise as tribal lands were taken from the Indians. Later, some whites with government entities made unsuccessful attempts to civilize the natives. Additional demands were made upon the Indian to abandon his traditions and language. Some did embrace the new life style, but many continued to practice cultural traditions while being slowly drawn into a foreign way of life. These are their stories. This Masters Thesis written by Patricia Lindgren Kurtz in 1963 was termed excellent by Dr. Katherine Dresden, Professor of Education at Chico State College. Dr. Clarence F. McIntosh, Professor of History and former president of the conference of California Historical Societies said, Mrs. Kurtz has compiled the most valuable information ever collected about the Indians of her locale.

Picking Willows

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462055524
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Picking Willows by : Pat Lindgren-Kurtz

Download or read book Picking Willows written by Pat Lindgren-Kurtz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PICKING WILLOWS, With Daisy and Lilly Baker, Maidu Basket Makers of Lake Almanor earned the iUniverse Editor's Choice recognition and stated that it is a compelling memoir and a valuable anthropological and cultural record. The seeds of a cross-cultural friendship were first sowed in 1955 when author Pat Lindgren-Kurtzs family first met indigenous Mountain Maidu basket makers Lilly Baker and her mother, Daisy. As the friendship grew, the contrasts in their backgrounds only enriched their experiences. In her heartfelt memoir, Lindgren-Kurtz not only retells the story of a lifelong friendship, but also details how two cultures intertwined while Daisy and Lilly create beautiful baskets to be cherished by many generations. As she shares charming anecdotes from her life living with the California Mountain Maidu people, picking willows, and observing their basket-making techniques, she offers an intriguing glimpse into the Maidu culture, their personal trials and tragedies, and the dramatic environmental changes affecting Maidu life from the Gold Rush to contemporary times. Lindgren-Kurtz details that Lilly and Daisy, as part of a large family of skilled basket-makers, persisted in sharing their culture and traditional art through hands-on demonstrations for thousands. Women basket makers from Daisys and Lillys Maidu family are recognized as some of the best artisans of Indian basketry in North America. A charming basket of untold California history, family memoir, and especially friendships among talented artists from two different cultures. Bruce Shelly, screenwriter and author

Upstream

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539154
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Upstream by : Beth Rose Middleton Manning

Download or read book Upstream written by Beth Rose Middleton Manning and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara lands in South Dakota; to Cherokee lands in Tennessee; to Sin-Aikst, Lakes, and Colville lands in Washington; to Chemehuevi lands in Arizona; to Maidu, Pit River, and Wintu lands in northern California, Native lands and communities have been treated as sacrifice zones for national priorities of irrigation, flood control, and hydroelectric development. Upstream documents the significance of the Allotment Era to a long and ongoing history of cultural and community disruption. It also details Indigenous resistance to both hydropower and disruptive conservation efforts. With a focus on northeastern California, this book highlights points of intervention to increase justice for Indigenous peoples in contemporary natural resource policy making. Author Beth Rose Middleton Manning relates the history behind the nation’s largest state-built water and power conveyance system, California’s State Water Project, with a focus on Indigenous resistance and activism. She illustrates how Indigenous history should inform contemporary conservation measures and reveals institutionalized injustices in natural resource planning and the persistent need for advocacy for Indigenous restitution and recognition. Upstream uses a multidisciplinary and multitemporal approach, weaving together compelling stories with a study of placemaking and land development. It offers a vision of policy reform that will lead to improved Indigenous futures at sites of Indigenous land and water divestiture around the nation.

The Northern Maidu

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Publisher : Naturegraph & Keven Brown Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Northern Maidu by : Marie Potts

Download or read book The Northern Maidu written by Marie Potts and published by Naturegraph & Keven Brown Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the history and describes the culture of the Northern Maidu.

Marie Mason Potts

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806168315
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Marie Mason Potts by : Terri A. Castaneda

Download or read book Marie Mason Potts written by Terri A. Castaneda and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the northern region of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Marie Mason Potts (1895–1978), a Mountain Maidu woman, became one of the most influential California Indian activists of her generation. In this illuminating book, Terri A. Castaneda explores Potts’s rich life story, from her formative years in off-reservation boarding schools, through marriage and motherhood, and into national spheres of Native American politics and cultural revitalization. During the early twentieth century, federal Indian policy imposed narrow restrictions on the dreams and aspirations of young Native girls. Castaneda demonstrates how Marie initially accepted these limitations and how, with determined resolve, she broke free of them. As a young student at Greenville Indian Industrial school, Marie navigated conditions that were perilous, even deadly, for many of her peers. Yet she excelled academically, and her adventurous spirit and intellectual ambition led her to transfer to Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School. After graduating in 1915, Marie Potts returned home, married a former schoolmate, and worked as a domestic laborer. Racism and socioeconomic inequality were inescapable, and Castaneda chronicles Potts’s growing political consciousness within the urban milieu of Sacramento. Against this backdrop, the author analyzes Potts’s significant work for the Federated Indians of California (FIC) and her thirty-year tenure as editor and publisher of the Smoke Signal newspaper. Potts’s voluminous correspondence documents her steadfast conviction that California Indians deserved just compensation for their stolen ancestral lands, a decent standard of living, the right to practice their traditions, and political agency in their own affairs. Drawing extensively from this trove of writings, Castaneda privileges Potts’s own voice in the telling of her story and offers a valuable history of California Indians in the twentieth century.

Native Pioneers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Native Pioneers by : Daughters of Utah Pioneers

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The Volcano Adventure Guide

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521554534
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Book Synopsis The Volcano Adventure Guide by : Rosaly M. C. Lopes

Download or read book The Volcano Adventure Guide written by Rosaly M. C. Lopes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Volcano Adventure Guide is the first book of its type. It contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes, how to prepare for a volcano trip, and how to avoid volcanic dangers, the book presents guides to visiting 42 different volcanoes around the world. This section is packed full of practical information including tour itineraries, maps, transportation details, and warnings of possible non-volcanic dangers. Three appendices at the end of the book direct the reader to a wealth of further volcano resources. Aimed at non-specialist readers who wish to explore volcanoes without being foolhardy, it will fascinate amateur enthusiasts and professional volcanologists alike. The stunning colour photographs throughout the book will delight armchair travellers as well as inspire the adventurous to get out and explore volcanoes for themselves.

Konkow Valley Band of Maidu

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (688 download)

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Book Synopsis Konkow Valley Band of Maidu by : Noponi C'Ammuden

Download or read book Konkow Valley Band of Maidu written by Noponi C'Ammuden and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Konkow Valley Band of Maidu The untold story of our people

Reclaimers

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806273
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Reclaimers by : Ana Maria Spagna

Download or read book Reclaimers written by Ana Maria Spagna and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington’s White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park. Until people decided to reclaim them. In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip of West Coast mountain ranges—the Panamints, the Sierras, the Cascades—and alongside rivers to meet the people, many of them wise women, who persevered for decades with little hope of success to make changes happen. In uncovering their heroic stories, Spagna seeks a way for herself, and for all of us, to take back and to make right in a time of unsettling ecological change.

World-Making Stories

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285280
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis World-Making Stories by : M. Eleanor Nevins

Download or read book World-Making Stories written by M. Eleanor Nevins and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One. Community Renewal -- 1. This Is Where We Belong: Maidu Histories on a Shared California Landscape -- 2. Placing Communities, Languages, and Stories on the Contemporary Landscape -- 3. Wéjenim Bíspadà: A Brief History of Maidu Language Keepers and Other Thoughts on Language Revitalization -- Part Two. Creation Narratives of Hánc'ibyjim / Tom Young -- 4. Púktim / Creation -- 5. Hompajtotokymc'om / The Adversaries -- 6. Hybýkʼym Masý Wónom / Love and Death -- 7. K'ódojapem Bom / Worldmaker's Trail -- Part Three. Pronunciation and Lessons -- 8. How to Pronounce Maidu -- 9. Reading the Maidu Language: Nine Beginning Lessons -- Appendix: Place Names and Character Names in the Stories -- Bibliography -- Index

Marie Mason Potts

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806168323
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Marie Mason Potts by : Terri A. Castaneda

Download or read book Marie Mason Potts written by Terri A. Castaneda and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the northern region of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Marie Mason Potts (1895–1978), a Mountain Maidu woman, became one of the most influential California Indian activists of her generation. In this illuminating book, Terri A. Castaneda explores Potts’s rich life story, from her formative years in off-reservation boarding schools, through marriage and motherhood, and into national spheres of Native American politics and cultural revitalization. During the early twentieth century, federal Indian policy imposed narrow restrictions on the dreams and aspirations of young Native girls. Castaneda demonstrates how Marie initially accepted these limitations and how, with determined resolve, she broke free of them. As a young student at Greenville Indian Industrial school, Marie navigated conditions that were perilous, even deadly, for many of her peers. Yet she excelled academically, and her adventurous spirit and intellectual ambition led her to transfer to Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School. After graduating in 1915, Marie Potts returned home, married a former schoolmate, and worked as a domestic laborer. Racism and socioeconomic inequality were inescapable, and Castaneda chronicles Potts’s growing political consciousness within the urban milieu of Sacramento. Against this backdrop, the author analyzes Potts’s significant work for the Federated Indians of California (FIC) and her thirty-year tenure as editor and publisher of the Smoke Signal newspaper. Potts’s voluminous correspondence documents her steadfast conviction that California Indians deserved just compensation for their stolen ancestral lands, a decent standard of living, the right to practice their traditions, and political agency in their own affairs. Drawing extensively from this trove of writings, Castaneda privileges Potts’s own voice in the telling of her story and offers a valuable history of California Indians in the twentieth century.

DK Eyewitness Back Roads California

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744044367
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Back Roads California written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take to the open road with DK Eyewitness Back Roads California and discover 24 leisurely drives through the state's idyllic hamlets, gorgeous beaches, and sprawling vineyards. Tour the Pacific Coast Highway, explore the vineyards of the Napa Valley, or drive through Yosemite National Park. Includes insider tips and information, this easy-to-use e-guide reveals incredible sights, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can be discovered only by road. Inside DK Eyewitness Back Roads California: - 24 easy-to-follow driving tours, each lasting one to five days - Guided walks take you through California's pretty villages, historic towns, and national parks - Experts suggest the best off-road activities in each area, from wine tours to water sports - Contains essential travel tips, including our pick of where to stay, eat, and shop, plus useful travel, visa, and health information - Covers all the US rules of the road - Includes zip codes for use with GPS, plus information on road conditions and parking tips - Covers San Francisco, Sacramento Delta, Marin County, Napa Valley, Russian River Valley, Sonoma Coast, Anderson Valley, Redwood National and State Parks, Cascade Mountains, Santa Cruz, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Parks, Owens Valley, Death Valley National Park, Mojave Desert, Palm Springs, Coachella Valley, Rim of the World Scenic Byway, San Diego, and more Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive e-guide to California? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide California.

Back Roads California

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465411879
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Back Roads California written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in PDF format. Scenic routes, charming hotels, authentic regional cuisine . . . Take a journey through the back roads of California to discover the area's real soul and charm. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Back Roads California driving vacation guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming Californian towns, local restaurants, and intimate places to stay. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from short walks and longer hikes to days on the beach or at a spa, to wine tours, cycling trips, and watersports. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses and restaurants specializing in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. Full-color throughout, with all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and length of drive to parking information, opening hours, and zip code information for use with a GPS device. Discover the unexpected on your road trip with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Back Roads California.

Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393293076
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian by : Orin Starn

Download or read book Ishi's Brain: In Search of Americas Last "Wild" Indian written by Orin Starn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian, this "eloquent and soul-searching book" (Lit) is "a compelling account of one of American anthropology's strangest, saddest chapters" (Archaeology). After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.

Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!

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Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430130725
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Yum! MmMm! Que Rico! by : Pat Mora

Download or read book Yum! MmMm! Que Rico! written by Pat Mora and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate, papaya, corn, and potatoes - these are only a taste of the many delicious foods native to the Americas and celebrated in this delightful collection. Imaginative, evocative poems and exuberant illustrations introduce 14 different indigenous foods, along with a descriptive paragraph of information for each.

Light a Candle

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Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1631636901
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Book Synopsis Light a Candle by : Jean Kuo Lee

Download or read book Light a Candle written by Jean Kuo Lee and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a stiff-necked teacher with staunch views against the Chinese moves to Emma Fong’s mining town of La Porte, California, she’ll have to rely on her wits and the strength of her people to survive his anti-Asian prejudice and stake her claim as an American in the Wild West.

Quest for Tribal Acknowledgment

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137483
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Quest for Tribal Acknowledgment by : Sara-Larus Tolley

Download or read book Quest for Tribal Acknowledgment written by Sara-Larus Tolley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small group of Indians known as the Honey Lake Maidus are very much alive today in the valley of the Susan River of northeast California. As a tribe, however, they do not exist. This is because they have not been acknowledged, a process by which the federal government officially recognizes Indian tribes. By contrast, other California Indian tribes have won federal recognition and come to represent a driving force behind most Indian legislation, including laws to regulate Indian casinos. Their political power and economic prosperity, however, has incurred resentment. Caught in this web of contending political forces are hundreds of small Indian groups, peoples like the Honey Lake Maidus who, because they lack federal recognition, cannot protect their cultures and secure their futures. They are also unable to undertake economic endeavors that would provide care for their children and elders. In Quest for Tribal Acknowledgment, Sara-Larus Tolley, an anthropologist who has worked for the Honey Lake Maidus for several years, recounts the group’s efforts to obtain recognition. In 1999, the tribe gained funding to work full-time on its petition, which it submitted to the government in 2001. While the Honey Lake Maidus wait for their application to gain “active” status, they continually update and refine its contents. And like hundreds of other unrecognized Indian groups seeking acknowledgment, they hope for the future.