1.6: Suggested Readings
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- Anderson, M. Kat, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006). An examination of how the native peoples of California managed their natural environment. Suggested Readings 29
- Fages, Pedro, A Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California, trans. by Herbert Ingram Priestley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937). An eyewitness account of the native cultures in California, written in 1772.
- Griffin, Paul F., and Young Robert N., California: The New Empire State, a Regional Geography (San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1957). A good introduction to the geographic diversity of California.
- Heizer, Robert F., ed., “California,” in Handbook of North American Indians, William C. Sturtevant, series ed. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978). The best overall survey of the complexities and diversities of the California Indians.
- Kroeber, Alfred L., Handbook of the Indians of California (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 78, 1925). A landmark study of the indigenous people done by the most respected California anthropologist of the 20th century.
- Librado, Fernando, Breath of the Sun: Life in Early California As Told by a Chumash Indian, Fernando Librado, to John P. Harrington, edited by Travis Hudson (Banning, Calif.: Malki Museum Press; [S.l.]: Ventura County Historical Society, 1979). A glimpse into the daily life of the California Indians during the early 1900s.
- Margolin, Malcolm, ed., The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs and Reminiscences (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1981). A good collection of the oral tradition.
- Tac, Pablo, Indian Life and Customs at Mission San Luis Rey (Mission San Luis Rey, 1958). A rare account of a mission Indian who wanted to be a priest.