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Overlooked Fisheries Of Baduwa’T: An Oral History Study Exploring The Environmental And Cultural Histories Of Eulachon And Pacific Lamprey In The Mad River Basin, A Wiyot Watershed, Kara Lindsay Simpson Jan 2019

Overlooked Fisheries Of Baduwa’T: An Oral History Study Exploring The Environmental And Cultural Histories Of Eulachon And Pacific Lamprey In The Mad River Basin, A Wiyot Watershed, Kara Lindsay Simpson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Eulachon and Pacific lamprey fisheries of the Mad River are significant for Indigenous peoples of the region, but they remain data-poor and underfunded even though eulachon is listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act and Pacific lamprey is recognized as a species of concern by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The lower Mad River and Humboldt Bay region lie in the traditional territory of the Wiyot and are home to Indigenous people who have maintained subsistence eulachon and Pacific lamprey fisheries. This research primarily draws from 13 oral history interviews with local Indigenous people, 18 key informant interviews …


Arcata Marsh History: Union Wharf, Mad River Canal, Reclamation, Lumber Mills, City Designs, Susie Van Kirk Feb 2015

Arcata Marsh History: Union Wharf, Mad River Canal, Reclamation, Lumber Mills, City Designs, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

A report of the Arcata Marsh including information about Wiyot residents, white settlement, the Union Wharf, the Mad River Canal, the abandoned wharf, reclamation, lumber mills, and city designs. Includes many maps and photographs.


Wiyot Residents- Arcata Marsh History, Susie Van Kirk Jan 2015

Wiyot Residents- Arcata Marsh History, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

From time immemorial, Wiyot people lived in permanent villages around North or Arcata Bay. Tidal flats and sloughs, bay channels, brackish marshes, creeks, and seasonal wetlands and ponds were the nature of things, all providers of food and materials. The people fished, harvested bivalves and crustaceans, gathered plant materials, and hunted waterfowl, marine mammals, and upland game. The bay and its environs sustained them.


An Anthropological Expedition Of 1913, Or, Get It Through Your Head, Or, Yours For The Revolution : Correspondence Between A.L. Kroeber And L.L. Loud, July 12, 1913-October 31, 1913, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Llewellyn Lemont Loud, Robert Fleming Heizer Jan 1970

An Anthropological Expedition Of 1913, Or, Get It Through Your Head, Or, Yours For The Revolution : Correspondence Between A.L. Kroeber And L.L. Loud, July 12, 1913-October 31, 1913, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Llewellyn Lemont Loud, Robert Fleming Heizer

Books and Monographs

Correspondence between A. L. Kroeber and L. L. Loud regarding archeology and ethnographic work around Humboldt Bay related to the Wiyot people. Photocopies of letters originally published at the Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley in 1970.