Synopses & Reviews
Cultural Writing. Essays. LETTERS TO THE VALLEY is a book of thoughtful observations from a farmer and award-winning author. From the unique perspective of a farmer on a working farm, Masumoto talks about dealing with change and trying to protect and preserve a way of life. His organic peach farming and his community serve as a backdrop to the "letters" he writes, offering the concerns of a parent, the memories of a son, and the advice of a friend. Now in paperback.
Synopsis
Here is the most comprehensive collection of family photos of Indians from their treasured albums. Documented by two women who traveled throughout California taping hundreds of hours of interviews and making good copies of the photos they found they managed a complete view of the cross-section of Indian lives over the last century in California. An incredible story to be told, aremarkable record of it.
Synopsis
When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002, they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Crisscrossing the state, they taped hundreds of hours of interviews and collected copies of nearly fifteen hundred family photos. The documentary project, funded by the California State Library and LEF Foundation, paints an unprecedented portrait of California's indigenous people using their own words and photographs from their own family albums. In turns moody, beautiful, warm, and humorous, First Families is a one-of-a-kind book that combines extremely personal images with text that gives readers a broader, deeper view of Indian history and many complex living cultures.