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CILC – Shasta 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View books, unpublished manuscripts and field notes, obscure scholarly articles, turn-of-the-century photographs, as well as rare sound recordings of songs and dances.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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Angulo, Jaime de. “Konomihu Vocabulary,” 1928. American Philosophical Society Collection of Materials Relating to the American Indian, Philadelphia, Penn.; manuscript no. 30H1c:5. Obtained at Selma, Or.

___. “The Shasta Language,” 1930. American Philosophical Society Collection of Materials Relating to the American Indian, Philadelphia, Penn.; manuscript no. 30Hc:1.

Angulo, Jaime de, and Béclard D’Harcourt. “La Musique des Indiens de la Californie du Nord.” Journal de la Société des Américanistes, n.s., vol. 23 (1931): 189-228.

Anthony, E. M. “Reminiscences in Siskiyou County,” 1869. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Unpublished manuscript.

Area in Northwestern California Showing Territory of Tlo-hom-tah’-hoi, Ko-no-me’-ho and Hah-to-ke’he-wuk Tribes with Parts of the Adjoining Tribes. C. Hart Merriam, cart. Scale [ca. 1:360,000]. [California?: s.n.], 1930.

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Bancroft, Hubert Howe. “Californian Languages.” In The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, H. H. Bancroft, vol. 3. Myths and Languages, 635-659. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1875.

___. “Californians.” In The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, H. H. Bancroft, vol. 1. Wild Tribes, 322-470. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 1. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1875.

Bates, Craig D. “Dressing the Part: A Brief Look at the Development of Stereotypical Indian Clothing Among Native Peoples in the Far West.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982): 55-66.

Baumhoff, Martin A. Ecological Determinants of Aboriginal California Populations. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 49, no. 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

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.

Bledsoe, Anthony J. History of Del Norte County, California: With a Business Directory and Traveler’s Guide. Crescent City, Calif.: Wendy’s Books, 1971.
Reprint of: Eureka, Calif.: Wyman and Co., Publishers, 1881.

Bright, William. 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.

___. The Karok Language. University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 13. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

___. “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.

Bright, William, and David L. Olmsted. “A Shasta Vocabulary.” Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, no. 20 (1959): 1-55.

Buckley, Thomas. “Kroeber’s Theory of Culture Areas and the Ethnology of Northwestern California.” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1 (1989): 15-26.

Burns, L. M. “Digger [Shasta] Indian Legends.” Land of Sunshine, vol. 14, no. 2 (1901): 130-134.

___. “Digger [Shasta] Indian Legends.” Land of Sunshine, vol. 14, no. 3 (1901): 223-226.

___. “Digger [Shasta] Indian Legends.” Land of Sunshine, vol. 14, no. 4 (1901): 310-314.

___. “Digger [Shasta] Indian Legends.” Land of Sunshine, vol. 14, no. 5 (1901): 397-402.

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California Indian Library Collections. 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: Siskiyou County, ed. J. Davis-Kimball. 2 vols. Berkeley: California Indian Library Collections, 1993.

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

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. Test Excavations at the May Site (CA-SIS-S7), in Seiad Valley, Northwestern California. Archives of California Prehistory, no. 17. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, 1988.

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 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.

Culin, Stewart. Games of the North American Indians. New York: Dover Publications, 1975.
Reprint of: 24th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for the Years 1902-1903, 3-809. Washington, D.C: The Bureau, 1907.
Reprinted: Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1993 (2 vols.).

Curtis, Edward S. The North American Indian: Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, ed. F. W. Hodge. 3 vols. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1980.
Reprint of: Norwood, Mass.: Plimpton Press, 1907-1930.

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Davis, James T. 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.

Dixon, Roland Burrage. “Dr. Merriam’s `Tlo-hom-tah’-ho’.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 33, no. 2 (1931): 264-267.

___. “Linguistic Relationships Within the Shasta-Achomawi Stock.” In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Americanists, vol. 2, 255-263. Quebec: [s.n.], 1907.

___. “The Mythology of the Shasta-Achomawi.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 7, no. 4 (1905): 607-612.

___. The Shasta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 17, pt. 5. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d. The Huntington California Expedition. Reprint of: New York: [American Museum of Natural History], 1907.

___. “Shasta.” In Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, ed. F. W. Hodge, vol. 2, 527-529. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 30. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910.

___. “Shasta Myths.” Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 23, no. 89 (1911): 8-37, 364-370.

___. “Shasta Texts,” 1910. American Philosophical Society Collection of Materials Relating to the American Indian, Philadelphia, Penn.; manuscript notebooks no. 30H1c.2.

___. “The Shasta-Achomawi: A New Linguistic Stock with Four New Dialects.” American Anthropologist, n.s. 7, no. 2 (1905): 213-217.

___. “Some Shamans of Northern California.” Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 17 (1963): 23-27.

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.

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. “A Steatite Dish and a Fragmentary Stone Pipe from Butte County, California.” In Papers on California Archaeology: 50-62, 14-16. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 38. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1957.

Emmons, George F. “Replies to Inquiries Regarding the Indian Tribes of Oregon and California.” In Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge: Information Respecting the History Conditions and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, ed. H. R. Schoolcraft, vol. 3, 200-225. Philadelphia, Penn.: J.B. Lippincott, 1860.

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Farrand, Livingston. “Shasta and Athapaskan Myths from Oregon.” Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 28, no. 109 (1915): 207-242.

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

Fredrickson, David A. “The North Coastal Region.” In California Archaeology, M. J. Moratto, 471-528. Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press, 1984.

Freeland, Lucy S. “Shasta Texts: Originally Collected by R.B. Dixon in 1908 and Rechecked with Informants of Jaime de Angulo and Lucy S. Freeland in 1927,” 1927. American Philosophical Society Collection of Materials Relating to the American Indian, Philadelphia, Penn.; manuscript no. 30H1C.3.

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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Gatschet, Albert S. “Sasti-English and English-Sasti Dictionary,” 1877. Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, Washington, D.C.; manuscript no. 706.

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

Gibbs, George. “Observations on Some Indian Dialects of Northern California.” In Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, H. R. Schoolcraft, vol. 3, 420-423. Philadelphia, Penn.: Lippincott, 1860.

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 Balanophagy.” In Essays in Anthropology Presented to A.L. Kroeber in Celebration of his Sixtieth Birthday, June 11, 1936, 87-98. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1936.

___. “Californian Balanophagy.” In The California Indians: A Source Book, 2nd ed., comp. and ed. R. F. Heizer, and M. A. Whipple, 301-305. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

___. 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.

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.

___. comps. 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 Phil C. Orr. Californian Shell Artifacts; Appendix: Additional Bone Artifacts. Anthropological Records, vol. 9, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947.

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.

Gogol, John M. “Klamath, Modoc, and Shasta Basketry.” American Indian Basketry, vol. 3, no. 2 (1983): 4-19. [Whole issue no. 10].

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

Gould, Richard A. “The Indians of Northwest California.” In People of California: An Overview of Native California Cultures to Accompany the Opening of the Southwest Museum’s Permanent California Exhibit, 12-21. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1985. Special issue of Masterkey, vol. 59, nos. 2-3 (1985).

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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Harrington, John Peabody. “[Konomihu and Shasta Fieldnotes],” 1933. Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Archives, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.

Heizer, Robert F. Languages, Territories and Names of California Indian Tribes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

___. “Sacred Rain-Rocks of Northern California.” In Papers on California Archaeology: 21-22, 33-38. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 20. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1953.

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 Martin A. Baumhoff. Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California. Cal Paperback ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Heizer, Robert F., and C. William Clewlow. Prehistoric Rock Art of California. Ramona, Calif.: Ballena Press, 1973.

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.

___. Some Archaeological Sites and Cultures of the Central Sierra Nevada. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 21. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1953.

Heizer, Robert F., Herbert R. Harvey, and Nona C. Willoughby. Indians of California: A Collection of Maps on Tribal Distribution; The Luiseño: 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.

Heizer, Robert F., and Thomas R. Hester. “Shasta Villages and Territory.” In Papers on California Ethnography, 119-158. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, no. 9. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1970.

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.

Holsinger, Rosemary. Shasta Indian Tales, ill. P. I. Piemme. Happy Camp, Calif.: Naturegraph Publishers, 1982. Holt, Catharine. “The Relations of Shasta Folklore,” 1942.

Holt, Catharine. Shasta Ethnography. Anthropological Records, vol. 3, no. 4. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946.

___. “Shastan Myths,” 1937. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; CU 23.1 item 77. Told by Sergeant Sambo, in English. Original dated 1891; typescript 1937.

Hoover, Robert L. Aboriginal Cordage in Western North America. I.V.C. Museum Society Occasional Paper, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: El Centro, Calif.: I.V.C. Museum Society, 1974.

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.

Hudson, Travis, Georgia Lee, and Ken Hedges. “Solstice Observers and Observatories in Native California.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 1 (1979): 39-63.

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

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Inventory of Instantaneous Cylinder Recordings Documenting Folk Culture in the Collections of Federal Agencies, prep. Federal Cylinder Project Staff. [Washington, D.C.]: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1981.

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James, George Wharton. Indian Basketry, and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets. A Rio Grande Classic, Glorieta, N.M.: Rio Grande Press, 1970.
Reprint of: Pasadena, Calif.: G.W. James, 1903.

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

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

Kroeber, Alfred Louis. “The Anthropology of California.” In Two Papers on the Aboriginal Ethnography of California, A. L. Kroeber, 1-18. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 56. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Survey, 1962.

___. 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.

___. California Place Names of Indian Origin. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1916.

___. Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 38. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939.

___. “Games of the California Indians.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 22, no. 3 (1920): 272-277.

___. “A Ghost-Dance in California.” Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 17 (1963): 32-35.

___. 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.

___. Karok Towns. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 35, no. 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1936.
Reprinted in: Varia Anthropologica. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.

___. “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.

___. The Religion of the Indians of California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 4, no. 6. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: The University Press, 1907.

___. 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.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis, and Samuel A. Barrett. Fishing Among the Indians of Northwestern California. Anthropological Records, vol. 21, no. 1. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

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

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Leonhardy, Frank C. “The Cultural Position of the Iron Gate Site,” 1961.
M.A. thesis, University of Oregon, Eugene.

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.

Loeb, Edwin M. The Eastern Kuksu Cult. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 33, no. 2. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933.

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Maloney, Alice Bay. Shasta was Shastasla in 1814. San Francisco: [s.n.], 1945.

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.

Martin, Pat. “The Shasta.” In The Indian Tribes of the Siskiyou, W. Nelson, 34-48, 69. The Siskiyou Pioneer, 4. Yreka, Calif.: Siskiyou County Historical Society, 1971.

McCorkle, Thomas. “Intergroup Conflict.” In California, ed. R. F. Heizer, 694-700. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

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. Ethnogeographic and Ethnosynonymic Data from Northern California Tribes, ed. R. F. Heizer. Contributions to Native California Ethnology from the C. Hart Merriam Collection, no. 1. Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1976.

___. Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes, ed. and comp. R. F. Heizer. 3 vols. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 68, pts. 1-3. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d. Contents: Pt. I. Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes — Pt. II. Ethnographic Notes on Northern and Southern California Indian Tribes — Pt. III. Ethnological Notes on Central California Indian Tribes. Reprint of: Berkeley: University of California Archaeological Research Facility, 1966-1967.

___. “The New River Indians: Tlo-hom-tah-hoi.” American Anthropologist, n.s., vol. 32, no. 2 (1930): 280-293.

___. “Vocabulary of Items from the Upper McCloud River Among Shasta Vocabulary: O-kwahn-noo-choo and O-kwash-noo’tsoo and Several Uncatalogued Packets of Wintun Vocabularies,” 1925. 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.

Metlar, George W. Northern California, Scott and Klamath Rivers: Their Inhabitants. Yreka, Calif.: Yreka Union Office: J. Tyson, 1856.

Miller, Joaquin. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs. American Novels of Muckraking, Propaganda, and Social Protest. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Gregg Press, 1968.
Reprint of: Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1874. Originally published in 1873 under title: Life Amongst the Modocs.

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.

Motz, Lee, Eric W. Ritter, and James Rock. “Glass Trade Beads from Two Shasta Sites in Siskiyou County, California.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol. 8, no. 1 (1986): 116.

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Nelson, Winnie. The Indian Tribes of the Siskiyou. The Siskiyou Pioneer, 4. Yreka, Calif.: Siskiyou County Historical Society, 1971.

Northern California Texts, ed. V. Golla, and S. Silver. Native American Texts Series, vol. 2, no. 2. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Norton, Jack. Genocide in Northwestern California: When Our Worlds Cried. San Francisco: The Indian Historian Press, 1979.

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“[Official Report of the Owyhee Reconnaissance: Made by Lieut. Col. C. S. Drew, 1st Oregon Cavalry, in the Summer of 1864 … ].” Ethnohistory, vol. 2, no. 2 (1955): 146-182.

Olmsted, David L. “Palaihnihan and Shasta I: Labial Stops.” Language, vol. 32, no. 1 (1956): 73-77.

___. “Palaihnihan and Shasta II: Apical Stops.” Language, vol. 33, no. 2 (1957): 136-138.

___. “Palaihnihan and Shasta III: Dorsal Stops.” Language, vol. 35, no. 4 (1959): 637-643.

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

Oregon State Library. Indians of Oregon: A Bibliography of Materials in the Oregon State Library, ed. L. Hewlett. Salem, Or.: Oregon State Library, 1969.

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Papers on California Archaeology: 17-18. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 15. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
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Papers on California Archaeology: 21-22. Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, no. 20. Salinas, Calif.: Coyote Press, n.d.
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Redner, Barbara. “The Way to Howenquet Mountain.” In Our People Speak: An Anthology of Indian Writing, 41-44. Arcata, Calif.: Humboldt State University, Indian Teacher and Educational Preparation Program, and the Redwood Writing Project, 1982.

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Wallace, William A. “Listen to the Chief!”Harangues of the California Indians, vol. 52 (1978): 54-58.

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