Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants
Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants

Author: Kent G. Lightfoot

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-11-20

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0520249984

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Lightfoot examines the interactions between Native American communities in California & the earliest colonial settlements, those of Russian pioneers & Franciscan missionaries. He compares the history of the different ventures & their legacies that still help define the political status of native people.

Native Americans Information Directory
Native Americans Information Directory

Author: Gale Group

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 1998-08

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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This directory covers nearly 4500 organizations, agencies, institutions, programmes, services, and publications concerned with native American institutions.

Sprouting Valley
Sprouting Valley

Author: James R. Welch

Publisher: Society of Ethnobiology

Published: 2013-05-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0988733021

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In the mid-nineteenth century the indigenous Potter Valley Pomo resided in large sedentary villages in Potter Valley, California, and travelled seasonally throughout an extensive territory in what are now Mendocino and Lake Counties. Beginning in 1890 what would become nearly a half century of ethnographic research among members of this community, homeopathic doctor and amateur anthropologist John W. Hudson witnessed the aftermath of their dislocation and dispersal from the valley following the arrival of non-indigenous settlers. Although never published, his fieldnotes contained an unparalleled dataset on plant use by a single local indigenous community in California. In this richly illustrated monograph the author presents and interprets this historical ethnobotanical information in order to provide new insights into Potter Valley Pomo society and its relationship to the Northern California landscape.