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1942 - Aboriginal Navigation Off The Coasts Of Upper And Baja California, Anthropological Papers, No. 39, Robert F. Heizer And William C. Massey
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Bulletin 151 of the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, provides a detailed description with diagrams of the four major types of boats used by the aboriginals from what became the California-Oregon Border to the southern tip of Baja California.
1870 - The Indians Of California, Chever, Edward E.
1870 - The Indians Of California, Chever, Edward E.
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This May 1, 1870, article was read originally before the Essex Institute on February 21, 1870. Chever's five years amongst the California Indians and his familiarity with the language of the tribes provided him with a sympathetic insight into the lives of the California Indians who had been demoralized by contact with the Whites. The Indians described were the Sesum, Hocktem, Yubum, Hololipi, Willem and Tankum who inhabited the valley of Northern California between the Sierra Nevada and the Coastal Range.
1907 - Handbook Of American Indians North Of Mexico, Part I; Frederick Webb Hodge
1907 - Handbook Of American Indians North Of Mexico, Part I; Frederick Webb Hodge
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Lack of knowledge of the aborigines and of their languages led to many errors on the part of the early explorers and settlers. Soon after the organization of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879, the work of recording a tribal synonymy was formally assigned to Henry W. Henshaw. The 2,500 tribal names and synonyms appearing in this list were taken chiefly from James Mooney's manuscript; the linguistic classification was the result of the work that the Bureau had been conducting under Henshaw's supervision. The handbook contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north …
1910 - A Mission Record Of The California Indians; Putnam, Kroeber
1910 - A Mission Record Of The California Indians; Putnam, Kroeber
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The Mission Record of the California Indians was in response to a list of questions sent to Alta California in 1811 by the Spanish government of Mexico. The “interrogatorio” was answered at the various missions, the replies collected and prefaced by the president of the mission with a short general statement or abstract of the answers received to each question and then presumably forwarded to Mexico with a copy retained in the archives of the Santa Barbara Mission.