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California Indian
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Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me!: The Seasons of Native California
Edited by Margaret Dubin and Kim Hogeland
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-079-9, $16.95
California Indian writers and storytellers celebrate the seasons |
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Life on the River: The Archaeology of an Ancient Native American Culture
William R. Hildebrandt and Michael J. Darcangelo
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-086-7, $13.95
The story of an archaeological dig that uncovered a Wintu village |
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Two Bear Cubs:
A Miwok Legend from California’s Yosemite Valley
Retold by Robert D. San Souci; Illustrated by Daniel San Souci
Hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-59714-092-8, $14.95
The tale of two lost bear cubs, Mother Grizzly, Red-tailed Hawk, Gray Fox, Mountain Lion, Clever Badger, Mother Deer, Measuring Worm, and El Capitan. |
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Legends of the Yosemite Miwok
Compiled by Frank La Pena, Craig D. Bates, and Steven P. Medley
Illustrated by Harry Fonseca
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-073-7, $12.95
A beautifully illustrated collection of old Indian tales about Yosemite. |
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First Families:
A Photographic History of California Indians
L. Frank and Kim Hogeland
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-013-3, $23.95
Family photo albums provide an intimate look at Native American life |
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Fast Cars and Frybread: Reports from the Rez
Gordon Johnson
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-066-9, $12.95
Memories of Indian time on the rez. |
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Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of
Southern California
Jan Timbrook, with botanical watercolors by Chris Chapman
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-59714-048-5, $27.95
272 pages (6 x 9), with illustrations throughout
Plant knowledge and use by the Chumash Indians of Southern California |
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Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography
Edited by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-057-7, $27.95
Over 100 years of indigenous art photography |
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Theodore Wores in the Southwest
Edited by Stephen Becker, Foreword by David Turner, Afterword by Tessie Naranjo, Preface by Bill Gerdts
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-047-8, $24.95
An exploration of the artist’s paintings of Native Americans in the Southwest |
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Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend
Betty Goerke
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-053-9, $21.95
A history of Marin County’s namesake and his people |
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Straight with the Medicine:
Narratives of Washoe Followers of the Tipi Way
Warren L. d’Azevedo
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-029-5, $12.95
A Heyday classic, back in print with eleven new chapters |
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Indian Summer: Traditional Life among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield
Foreword by Malcolm Margolin
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-035-x, $13.95
A new edition of a Heyday classic. |
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The Smokehouse Boys
Shaunna Oteka McCovey
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-019-8, $11.95
Poems of grace, heartbreak, and wry, beautiful simplicity. |
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Lion Singer
Written and Illustrated by Sylvia Ross
A Great Valley Book
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59714-009-0, $12.95
There was once a time when there was no metal in the Chukchansi people’s world. More... |
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Deeper Than Gold:
A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills
Brian Bibby, Photographs by Dugan Aguilar
Trade Paper, ISBN: 0-930588-96-7, $18.95
Part guide, part literary tribute, part photo album, this beautifully designed book features the memories and knowledge of Gold Country’s first peoples—the Native Americans who know the area best. |
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Dream Songs and Ceremony: Reflections on Traditional California Indian Dance
Frank LaPena
Cloth, 48 pages (8 x 10), ISBN: 1-890771-79-1, $25.00
With 16 full-color plates
A Great Valley Book
This collection of paintings by acclaimed artist Frank LaPena draws upon the symbols of California Indian dances—sacred events that cannot be photographed or videotaped. Himself a Nomtipom Wintu dancer, singer, and ceremonial leader, LaPena complements his vibrant paintings and poetry with an introduction and commentary. |
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Panamint Shoshone Basketry: An American Art Form
Eva Slater
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-88-0, $40.00
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-89-9, $25.00
This lovely book presents the cultural, environmental, and historical context in which a new and extraordinary form of basketry was created by the basket makers of a small tribe that inhabited some of the most inhospitable desert lands in Eastern California. |
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Indian Tales
Jaime de Angulo
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-66-x, $12.95
Appealing to both adults and children, Indian Tales, combines fact and fiction, literature and anthropology as it recounts the journey of Bear, his wife Antelope, and their son Fox as they set out to visit relatives on the coast. |
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The Dirt Is Red Here:
Art and Poetry from Native California
Edited by Margaret Dubin
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-54-6, $16.95
The Dirt is Red Here brings together works by many of today’s finest artists and poets of California’s Indian communities. |
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How to Keep Your Language Alive:
A Guide to One-on-One Language Learning
Leanne Hinton
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-42-2, $15.95
Aa manual for students of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh; complete with exercises that can—can and should—be done in the most ordinary of settings. |
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The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry
Edited by Brian Bibby
Trade paper, ISBN:0-930588-87-8, $22.50
California Indian baskets are considered by many to be among the world's most beautiful, sophisticated, and cherished art objects. |
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The Heart is Fire: The World of the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California
Deborah Dozier
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-89-4, $16.00
Five Cahuilla elders open their world to us, providing an Indian interpretaion of the Cahuilla world, past and present. |
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
Malcolm Margolin
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-01-0, $14.95
This well-loved classic vividly recreates the lost world of the Indian people who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area such a short time ago. |
The Morning the Sun Went Down
Darryl Babe Wilson
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-81-9, $13.95
The compelling autobiography of a California Indian man who grew up with one foot in the Indian world of myth and custom, and the other foot in a modern, Western world.
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Adopted by Indians: A True Story
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, edited by Malcolm Margolin
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-93-2, $10.95
The children's version of our best-selling title Indian Summer, this book gives younger readers a close-up view of traditional California Indian life and early California. |
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Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends
Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney, and Susan Billy
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-80-0, $20.00
The Pomo Indians of Northern California are widely considered to be among the world's most skilled weavers, and no finer collection of their baskets exists than that created by Elsie Allen and her mother, Annie Burke. |
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The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences
Edited with Commentary by Malcolm Margolin
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-55-X, $14.95
Captures the vitality and continuance of native culture in California, ranging from love songs to death chants, legends to oral histories. |
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Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History
Joaquin Miller, Introduction by Malcolm Margolin
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-79-7, $18.95
Miller's masterful book, based on his years during the 1850s among the mining town and Indian camps of Northern California. |
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Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories
Malcolm Margolin and Yolanda Montijo
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-73-8, $10.95
California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style. |
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The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim
Edited and Translated by William Shipley, Foreword by Gary Snyder
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-52-5, $12.95
A stunning combination of master storytelling and deft translation produced this world-class collection of Maidu Myths. |
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In My Own Words: The Stories, Songs, and Memories of Grace McKibben, Wintu
Alice Shepherd, Foreword by Frank LaPena
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-85-1, $14.00
Presenting the only bilingual collection of the songs, stories, and traditional tales of the Wintu of Northern California. |
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Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
Leanne Hinton
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-62-2, $18.00
Thoroughly accessible essays on the structure, sounds, and history of California Indian languages, and the efforts to preserve them. |
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Grass Games and Moon Races: California Indian Games and Toys
Jeannine Gendar
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-56-8, $12.95
Dozens of traditional games are described through personal accounts, anecdotes, photographs, and drawings. |
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It Will Live Forever: Traditional Yosemite Acorn Preparation
Beverly R. Ortiz, as told by Julia F.Parker
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-45-2, $13.95
For over twenty years, visitors to Yosemite National Park have watched with fascination as Julia Parker demonstrates the Yosemite Miwok/Paiute skill of preparing acorn. |
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To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
Lucy Thompson (Che-na-wah Weitch-ah-wah)
Trade paper, ISBN: 0-930588-47-9, $14.95
Originally written in 1916, this book remains one of the few accounts of a Native American woman about her people. |
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