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CILC – Yahi/Yana Bibliography

View books, unpublished manuscripts and field notes, obscure scholarly articles, turn-of-the-century photographs, as well as rare sound recordings of songs and dances. Our collection focuses on the tribes native to Shasta County, specifically the Achomawi, Atsugewi, Klamath, Nomlaki, Shasta,Wintu, and Yana Native American tribes.

Items in Bold are available at the Redding Library.
Located in the Shasta Public Libraries’ California Indian Library Collection on the 2nd floor of the Redding Library.

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Anderson, Kat. “At Home in the Wilderness.” In California Indians and the Environment, ed. M. Margolin, and J. Gendar, 3-5. News from Native California Special Reports, no. 1. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1992. Special supplement to News from Native California (Spring 1992).

Anderson, Robert A. Fighting the Mill Creeks: Being a Personal Account of Campaigns Against Indians of the Northern Sierras. Chico, Calif.: Record Press, 1909.

Appersen, Eva M. We Knew Ishi. Red Bluff, Calif.: Walker Lithograph Co., 1971.

The Archaeology of the Black Butte Reservoir Region, Glenn and Tehama Counties, California, A. E. Treganza, M. H. Heickson, and W. Woolfenden. Occasional Paper (San Francisco State College. Anthropology Museum), no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d. Contents: Pt. 1. Salvage Archaeology in the Black Butte Area, Glenn County, California / by Adan Treganza and Martin Heickson — Pt. 2. A Study of 4-Glenn-10: The Brownell Indian Cemetery / by Wallace Woolfenden. Reprint of: [San Francisco]: San Francisco State College, Anthropology Museum, 1969.

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Baumhoff, Martin A. “Excavation of Teh-1 (Kingsley Cave).>” In Papers on California Archaeology: 32-33, 40-73. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 30. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1955.

___. An Introduction to Yana Archaeology>. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 40. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1957.

Baumhoff, Martin A., and J. S. Byrne. “Desert Side-Notched Points as a Time Marker in California.” In Papers on California Archaeology: 70-73, 32-63. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 48. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1959.

Beeler, Madison S. “Senary Counting in California Penutian.” Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 3, no. 6 (1961): 1-8.

Bennyhoff, James A. Californian Fish Spears and Harpoons.> Anthropological Records, vol. 9, no. 4. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Birdsell, Joseph B. “The Problem of the Early Peopling of the Americas as Viewed from Asia.” In Papers on the Physical Anthropology of the American Indian, ed. W. S. Laughlin, 1-68. New York: Viking Fund, 1951.

Blount, Clinton M., and Dorothea J. Theodoratus. “Central California Indians.” In People of California: An Overview of Native California Cultures to Accompany the Opening of the Southwest Museum’s Permanent California Exhibit, 22-31. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1985. Special issue of Masterkey, vol. 59, nos. 2-3 (1985).

Bright, William. “A Bibliography of the Hokan-Coahuiltecan Languages.” International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 21, no. 3 (1955): 276-285.

___. Bibliography of the Languages of Native California: Including Closely Related Languages of Adjacent Areas. Native American Bibliography Series, no. 3. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982.

___. “Some Northern Hokan Relationships: A Preliminary Report.>” In Papers from the Symposium on American Indian Linguistics: Held at Berkeley, July 7, 1951, 63-67. University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 10. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954.

Brown, Vinson. Native Americans of the Pacific Coast: Peoples of the Sea Wind. Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1985.
Reprint of: Peoples of the Sea Wind. [New York]: Macmillan, 1971.

Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough. Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings, and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, April 2, 1849 to July 20, 1851, ed. G. W. Read, and R. Gains. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949.

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Calhoon, F. D. The Lassen Trail: Including the Full Text of the Memoirs of James Eaton. Sacramento, Calif.: Cal-Con Press, 1987.

California, ed. R. F. Heizer. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

California Indian Library Collections. Finding Guide to the California Indian Library Collections: Butte County, ed. J. Davis-Kimball. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993.

___. Finding Guide to the California Indian Library Collections: California State Library, ed. J. Davis-Kimball. 8 vols. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993.

___. Finding Guide to the California Indian Library Collections: Shasta County, ed. J. Davis-Kimball. 2 vols. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993.

___. Finding Guide to the California Indian Library Collections: Tehama County, ed. J. Davis-Kimball. 2 vols. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993.

The California Indians: A Source Book, comp. and ed. R. F. Heizer, and M. A. Whipple. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Castillo, Edward D. “The Impact of Euro-American Exploration and Settlement.” In California, ed. R. F. Heizer, 99-127. Handbook of North American American Indians, vol. 8. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

Chartkoff, Joseph L., and Kerry K. Chartkoff. The Archaeology of California. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Clements, William M., and Frances M. Malpezzi, comps. Native American Folklore, 1879-1979: An Annotated Bibliography. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1984.

Cook, Sherburne F. “The Aboriginal Population of Upper California.” In XXXV Congreso Internacional de Americanistas: Mexico, 1962, 397-403. Actas y Memorias, 3. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1964.

___. The American Invasion, 1848-1870. Ibero-Americana, 23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943.
Reprinted in: Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 1976.

___. “The American Invasion, 1848-1870.” In The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization, S. F. Cook, 255-364. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

___. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

___. The Indian Versus the Spanish Mission. Ibero-Americana, 21. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943.
Reprinted in: Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 1976.

___. “The Indian Versus the Spanish Mission.” In The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization, S. F. Cook, 1-194. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

___. The Physical and Demographic Reaction of the Nonmission Indians in Colonial and Provincial California. Ibero-Americana, 22. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943.
Reprinted in: Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of Calfornia Press, 1976.

___. “The Physical and Demographic Reaction of the Nonmission Indians in Colonial and Provincial California.” In The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization, S. F. Cook, 197-251. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Curtin, Jeremiah. Creation Myths of Primitive America in Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1898.

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Davis, James T. “The Archaeology of the Fernandez Site: A San Francisco Bay Region Shellmound.” In Papers on California Archaeology: 74, 75, 11-52. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 49. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1960.

___. “Archaeological Investigations in Northeastern California (1939-1972).” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Davis, 1973.

___. Trade Routes and Economic Exchange Among the Indians of California. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 54. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1961.

___. Trade Routes and Economic Exchange Among the Indians of California. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 54. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1961.
Reprinted: Aboriginal California: Three Studies in Culture History, ed. R. F. Heizer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963; Ramona, Calif.: Ballena, Press, 1974.

Dawson, Lawrence E. “[Handwritten Notes on Yana Twined Basketry from Two Caves in the Southern Cascade Foothills],” 1971. Manuscript in Dawson’s possession.

Dixon, Roland Burrage. Basketry Designs of the Indians of Northern California. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 17, pt. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
The Huntington California Expedition. Reprint of: New York: [American Museum of Natural History], 1902.

___. The Northern Maidu. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 17, pt. 3. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d. The Huntington California Expedition. Reprint of: New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1905.

Dixon, Roland Burrage, and Alfred Louis Kroeber. “New Linguistic Families in California.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 15, no. 4 (1913): 647-655.

___. “Numeral Systems of the Languages of California.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 9, no. 4 (1907): 663-690.

Dorin, May. “The Emigrant Trails Into California,” 1922. M.A. thesis, University of California, Berkeley.

DuBois, Cora A. The 1870 Ghost Dance. Anthropological Records, vol. 3, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939.

___. “The 1870 Ghost Dance.” In The California Indians: A Source Book, 2nd ed., comp. and ed. R. F. Heizer, and M. A. Whipple, 496-499. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

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Elsasser, Albert B. “Notes on Yana Ethnobotany.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 1 (1981): 69-77.

Emanuels, George. California Indians: An Illustrated Guide. Walnut Creek, Calif.: G. Emanuels (dba Diablo Books), 1991. Distributed: Lemoore, Calif.: Kings River Press.

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Farris, Glenn J. “Pine Nuts as an Aboriginal Food Source in California and Nevada: Some Contrasts.” Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 2, no. 2 (1982): 114-122.

Forbes, Jack D. Native Americans of California and Nevada. Rev. ed. Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1982.
Reprint of: 1969.

Francisco, Alice B. “The Distribution and Function of Bedrock Mortars in California.” In Experiment and Function: Four California Studies, 57-75. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, no. 33. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1976.

Frank, B. F., and H. W. Chappell, comps. History and Business Directory of Shasta County Comprising an Accurate Historical Sketch of the County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time … 1881. Redding, Calif.: Redding Independent Book and Job Printing House, 1881.

Fredrickson, David A. “Early Cultures of the North Coast Ranges, California.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Davis, 1973.

Freeman, James A. Ishi’s Journey from the Center to the Edge of the World. Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1992.

Freeman, John F., comp. A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 65. Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society, 1966.

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Garth, Thomas R. Atsugewi Ethnography. Anthropological Records, vol. 14, no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953.

Gayton, Anna H. “Areal Affiliations of California Folktales.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 37, no. 4, pt. 1 (1935): 582-599.

Gifford, Edward Winslow. “California Indian Personal Names,” 1920. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; CU 23.1 item 197.

___. Californian Anthropometry. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 22, no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926.

___. Californian Kinship Terminologies. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 18, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1922.

___. “Notes on Central Pomo and Northern Yana Society.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 30, no. 4 (1928): 675-684.

Gifford, Edward Winslow, and Gwendoline Harris Block, comp. Californian Indian Nights: 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. Bison Book ed. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Reprint of: Californian Indian Nights Entertainments. Glendale, Calif.: A.H. Clark Co., 1930.

___, comp. Californian. 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, Calif.: A.H. Clark Co., 1930.
Reprinted: Californian Indian Nights. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Gifford, Edward Winslow, and Stanislaw Klimek. Yana. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37, no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d. Culture Element Distributions: II. Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1936.

Gifford, Edward Winslow, and Alfred Louis Kroeber. “Vocabulary from Ishi (Yahi-Yana),” 1915. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; CU 23.1 item 199.

Giles, Rosena A. Shasta County, California: A History. Oakland, Calif.: Biobooks, 1949.

Goddard, Pliny Earle. “The Present Condition of Our Knowledge of North American Indian Languages.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 16, no. 4 (1914): 555-601.

Goldschmidt, Walter R. Nomlaki Ethnography. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnolology, vol. 42, no. 4. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951.

___. “Social Organization in Native California and the Origin of Clans.” American Anthropologist, vol. 50, no. 3, pt. 1 (1948): 444-456.

Grant, Campbell. The Rock Paintings of the Chumash: A Study of a California Indian Culture. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 1993.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.

Greenberg, Joseph H., and Morris Swadesh. “Jicaque as a Hokan Language.” International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 19, no. 3 (1953): 216-222.

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Haas, Mary R. “California Hokan.” In Studies in Californian Linguistics, ed. W. Bright, 73-87. University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.

Heizer, Robert F. “Alfred Louis Kroeber, 1876-1960.” Man, vol. 61 (1961): 107.

___. “How Accurate Were California Indians With the Bow and Arrow?”Masterkey, vol. 44, no. 3 (1970): 108-111.

___. “A Survey of Cave Archaeology in California.” In Papers on California Archaeology: 17-18, 1-12. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 15. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1952.

Heizer, Robert F., Dennis Bailey, Marke Estis, and Karen Nissen. Catalogue of the C. Hart Merriam Collection of Data Concerning California Tribes and Other American Indians. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1969.

Heizer, Robert F., and Albert B. Elsasser, comps. The Natural World of the California Indians. California Natural History Guides, 46. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Heizer, Robert F., Herbert R. Harvey, and Nona C. Willoughby. Indians of California: A Collection of Maps on Tribal Distribution; The LuiseƱo: An Analysis of Change in Patterns of Land Tenure and Social Structure; Division of Labor Among the Indians of California. California Indians, 2. New York: Garland, 1974. American Indian Ethnohistory: California and Basin-Plateau Indians.

Henshaw, Henry W. “Yana.” In Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, ed. F. W. Hodge, vol. 2, 987. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 30. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910.

Hinton, Leanne, and Yolanda Montijo. In Our Own Words: A Special Report on the Status of California’s Native Languages. News from Native California Special Reports, no. 2. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1993.

Hudson, Travis. “The Nature of California Indian Astronomy.” In Visions of the Sky: Archaeological and Ethnological Studies of California Indian Astronomy, ed. R. A. Schiffman, 5-30. Archives of California Prehistory, no. 16. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, 1988.

Hughes, Richard E. Diachronic Variability in Obsidian Procurement Patterns in Northeastern California and Southcentral Oregon. University of California Publications in Anthropology, vol. 17. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Hunt, Ann. “The Allen and Jones Massacres and the Extermination of the Yana.” In The Covered Wagon, 40-52. Redding, Calif.: Shasta Historical Society, 1960.

Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. Yale Western Americana Series, 35. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.

Hutchinson, W. H. “Ishi, the Unconquered.” Natural History, vol. 58 (1949): 126-133.

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Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History, ed. R. F. Heizer, and T. Kroeber. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

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Jacobsen, William H. “Observations on the Yana Stop Series in Relationship to Problems of Comparative Hokan Phonology.” In Hokan Studies: Papers from the First Conference on Hokan Languages, Held in San Diego, California April 23-25, 1970, ed. M. Langdon, and S. Silver, 203-236. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, 181. The Hague: Mouton, 1976.

___. “Structural Characteristics of Hokan Languages,” 1961. Manuscript in author’s possession. Unpublished manuscript.

___. “Washo Internal Diversity and External Relations.” In Selected Papers from the 14th Great Basin Anthropological Conference, ed. D. R. Tuohy, 115-147. Ballena Press Publications in Archaeology, Ethnology, and History, no. 11. Socorro, N.M.: Ballena Press, 1978.

Jeffredo-Warden, Louise V. Ishi, ill. K. Fujiwara. American Indian Stories, Austin, Tex.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1993.

Johnson, Jerald Jay. “Yana.” In California, ed. R. F. Heizer, 361-369. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

Jorgensen, Joseph G. Western Indians: Comparative Environments, Languages and Cultures of 172 Western American Indians Tribes. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1980.

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Keeling, Richard. A Guide to Early Field Recordings (1900-1949) at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology. University of California Publications: Catalogs and Bibliographies, vol. 6. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Kelsey, C. E. “Some Numerals from the California Indian Languages,” 1906. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; CU 23.1 item 60.

Kendall, Daythal, comp. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indians in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 65. Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society, 1982.

Keyworth, C. L. California Indians. The First Americans, New York: Facts on File, 1991.

Knudtson, Peter M. The Wintun Indians of California and Their Neighbors. Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1977.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis. Arrow Release Distributions. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 23, no. 4. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927.

___. Basket Designs of the Indians of Northwestern California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 2, no. 4. Berkeley: The University Press, 1905.

___. “California Basketry and the Pomo.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 11, no. 2 (1909): 233-249.

___. “California Basketry and the Pomo.” In The California Indians: A Source Book, 2nd ed., comp. and ed. R. F. Heizer, and M. A. Whipple, 319-331. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

___. “The California Indian Population About 1910.” In Ethnographic Interpretations: 1-6, A. L. Kroeber, 218-225. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 47, no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

___. Handbook of the Indians of California. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
Reprint of: Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1925. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 78).

___. Indian Myths of South Central California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 4, no. 4. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: The University Press, 1907.

___. “Linguistic Time Depth Results So Far and Their Meaning.” International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 21, no. 2 (1955): 91-104.

___. “Nature of the Land-Holding Group.” Ethnohistory, vol. 2, no. 4 (1955): 303-314.

___. Phonetic Constituents of the Native Languages of California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 10, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: The University Press, 1911.

___. “Recent Ethnic Spreads.” In Ethnographic Interpretations: 7-11, A. L. Kroeber, 259-281. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 47, no. 3. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.

___. Salt, Dogs, Tobacco. Anthropological Records, vol. 6, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d. Culture Element Distributions: XV. Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.

___. The Valley Nisenan. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 24, no. 4. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis, Harold E. Driver, and Ralph G. Lounsbury. Basic Report on California Indian Land Holdings; Selected Writings of Kroeber on Land Use and Political Organization of California Indians; Mexican Land Claims in California. California Indians, 4. New York: Garland, 1974. American Indian Ethnohistory: California and Basin-Plateau Indians.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis, and Robert F. Heizer. “Continuity of Indian Population in California from 1770/1848 to 1955.” In Papers on California Ethnography, 1-22. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, no. 9. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1970.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis, and Dale Valory. “Ethnological Manuscripts in the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, no. 37 (1967): 1-22.

Kroeber, Theodora. “The Hunter, Ishi.” The American Scholar, vol. 31, no. 3 (1962): 408-418.

___. The Inland Whale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959.

___. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

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

Kroeber, Theodora, and Robert F. Heizer. Almost Ancestors: The First Californians, ed. F. D. Hales. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1968.

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Langdon, Margaret, and Shirley Silver. “California t/t.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4 (1984): 139-165.

Lewis, Henry T. Patterns of Indian Burning in California: Ecology and Ethnohistory. Ramona, Calif.: Ballena Press, 1973.

___. “Patterns of Indian Burning in California: Ecology and Ethnohistory.” In Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians, comp. and ed. T. C. Blackburn, and K. Anderson, 55-116. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, no. 40. Menlo Park, Calif.: Ballena Press, 1993.

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MacCurdy, George Grant. “[Excerpt from] Anthropology at the Baltimore Meeting with Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association for 1908.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 11, no. 1 (1909): 101, 110.

Map of the Pit River Tribes: Achomawan Stock. C. Hart Merriam, cart. Scale [ca. 1:750,000]. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Geological Survey, 1926.

McCoy, L. L. Land Grants and Other History of Tehama County. Red Bluff, Calif.: The River Rambler, 1926.

McLendon, Sally. “Northern Hokan (B) and (C): A Comparison of Eastern Pomo and Yana.” In Studies in Californian Linguistics, ed. W. Bright, 126-144. University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.

Merriam, C. Hart. “Ethnography of the Northern and Central Yana,” 1907. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.

Merriam, C. Hart, and Zenaida Merriam Talbot. Boundary Descriptions of California Indian Stocks and Tribes, ed. R. F. Heizer. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1974.

Merrill, Ruth Earl. Plants Used in Basketry by the California Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20, no. 13. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1923.

Moratto, Michael J. California Archaeology. Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press, 1984.

Moser, Christopher L. American Indian Basketry of Northern California. Riverside, Calif.: Riverside Museum Press, 1989. Catalog for the exhibition of “American Indian Basketry of Northern California” from the permanent collection of the Riverside Municipal Museum, December 12, 1989 to December 30, 1990.

Moshinsky, Julius B. “Historical Pomo Phonology.” In Hokan Studies: Papers from the First Conference on Hokan Languages Held in San Diego, California April 23-25, 1970, ed. M. Langdon, and S. Silver, 55-75. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, 181. The Hague: Mouton, 1976.

Murdock, George Peter, and Timothy J. O’Leary. Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. 4th ed. Vol. 3: Far West and Pacific Coast. New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1975.

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Nelson, Nels C. “Flint Working by Ishi.” In Holmes Anniversary Volume: Anthropological Essays Presented to William Henry Holmes in Honor of His Seventieth Birthday, 397-402. Washington, D.C.: J.W. Bryan Press, 1916.

Nichols, Johanna. “Diminutive Consonant Symbolism in Western North America.” Language, vol. 47, no. 4 (1971): 826-848.

Nichols, Michael J. P. “Old California Uto-Aztecan.” In Survey Reports, 1981, 5-41. Report (Survey of California and Other Indian Languages), no. 1. Berkeley: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, 1981.

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The Obsidian Flaked Lithic Technology of Ishi. Berkeley: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, 1990.

Olmsted, David L. “Phonemic Change and Subgrouping: Some Hokan Data.” Language, vol. 41, no. 2 (1965): 303-307.

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Papers on California Archaeology: 19-20. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 19. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1953.

Papers on California Archaeology: 32-33. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 30. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1955.

Papers on California Archaeology: 63-69. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 41. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1958.

Papers on California Archaeology: 70-73. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 48. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1959.

Papers on California Archaeology: 74, 75. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 49. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1960.

Payen, Louis Arthur, and Royal Ervin Taylor. “Man and Pleistocene Fauna at Potter Creek Cave, California.” Journal of California Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 1 (1976): 51-58.

People of California: An Overview of Native California Cultures to Accompany the Opening of the Southwest Museum’s Permanent California Exhibit. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1985. Special issue of Masterkey, vol. 59, nos. 2-3 (1985): 1-56.

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