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California Natural History Guides #46: Natural World of the California Indians by Robert Flemi Heizer Publisher Comments This information-packed guide describes patterns of village life, and covers such subjects as Indian tools and artifacts, hunting techniques, and food.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ishi Last of His Tribe (Bantam Starfire Books) by Theodora Kroeber Publisher Comments The old Yahi World and the new world of the white man as seen by Ishi, last survivor of his people.... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America by Theodora Kroeber Publisher Comments OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin Publisher Comments Nonfiction. Two hundred years ago herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for salmon and steelhead trout. From the vast marshlands, geese, ducks, and other birds... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Native Americans of California and Nevada by Jack Forbes Publisher Comments Revised Edition. Jack Forbes wrote this ethnographic study of Indian cultures from the prehistoric to present day times, covering an area that today is known as the states of California and Nevada. Includes a fascinating history of Indian-white relations... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Destruction of California Indians by Robert Flemi Heizer Publisher Comments California is a contentious arena for the study of the Native American past. Some critics say genocide characterized the early conduct of Indian affairs in the state; others say humanitarian concerns. Robert F. Heizer, in the former camp, has compiled a... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The California Indians by Robert Flemi Heizer Publisher Comments the editors discuss the present-day Indians of California in a chapter written especially for this volume, and provide a new extensive classified bibliography listing hundreds of published works arranged by culture areas and subjects.... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Californian Indian Nights by Edward Wins Gifford Publisher Comments "The rereading of these folklore selections in this attractively printed volume underscores again the uniqueness of California mythology. . . . The tales that make up the mythology there are not the worn stand-bys of the world; these tales from the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Viola Martinez California Paiute by Diana Bahr Publisher Comments The life story of Viola Martinez, an Owens Valley Paiute Indian of eastern California, extends over nine decades of the twentieth century. Viola experienced forced assimilation in an Indian boarding school, overcame racial stereotypes to pursue a college... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers by Kent G Lightfoot Publisher Comments California's earliest European colonists--Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries--depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Standing Ground by Thomas C Buckley Publisher Comments A sympathetic and insightful study, providing an interweaving series of narratives and interpretations of Yurok religious practice.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $43.50 Used - Hardcover
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California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction by Kent Lightfoot Publisher Comments Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Inland Whale by Theodora Kroeber Publisher Comments Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Karuk: The Upriver People by Maureen Bell Publisher Comments Among the mountains that flank the Klamath River, the home of the legendary Sasquatch, there still lives a people that anthropologists believe to be descendants of the original inhabitants of California. The Karuk, in this northernmost wilderness... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin Publisher Comments Describes the culture of Native American inhabitants in the California Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans, offering insight into the daily lives, culture and rituals of the Ohlone while tracing their experiences under Spanish, Mexican and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Indians of California by Time Life Publisher Comments History, customs, mythology, and lore of the continent's first inhabitants are inter-woven in this rich new look at our Native American heritage. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, paintings, drawings, and artifacts.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants by Kent Lightfoot Publisher Comments California's earliest European colonists--Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries--depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs; A California Indian Reader by Herbert W Luthin Publisher Comments An annotated anthology of classic and contemporary works of Native Californian oral literature in translation, featuring selections from this state's many distinct native cultures.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Supreme Court and Tribal Gaming: California V. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (Landmark Law Cases & American Society) by Ralph A Rossum Publisher Comments Explores the origins, arguments and impact of the landmark 1987 decision that reasserted the sovereignty of American Indian nations, barred states from interfering with tribes' sovereignty and opened the door for a boom in the Indian-gaming industry... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California by Kathleen Hull Publisher Comments This innovative examination of the Yosemite Indian experience in California poses broad challenges to our understanding of the complex, destructive encounters that took place between colonists and native peoples across North America. Looking closely at... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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