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1) Miwok
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This title introduces readers to the Miwok people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. Table of contents, map, fun facts, timeline, glossary, and index included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division...
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview the daily lives of California's native peoples, profiling their arrival in the area, survival in harsh times, relationships with the environment, rituals, customs, and beliefs.
Author
Series
Yale Western Americana volume 35
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
246 p. : ill., charts, maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the Indians who survived the invasion of white settlers during the nineteenth century and integrated their lives into white society while managing to maintain their own culture.
Author
Series
Santa Barbara bicentennial historical volume no. 4
Publisher
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
2nd ed. /
Physical Desc
xv, 141 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.), map, port. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
13) Five views
Publisher
State of California, Dept. of Parks and Recreation, Office of Historic Preservation
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
265 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Language
English
Description
"If we allow the pieces of our culture to lie scattered in the dust of history, trampled on by racism and grief, then yes, we are irreparably damaged. But if we pick up the pieces and use them in new ways that honor their integrity, their colors, textures, stories, then we do those pieces justice, no matter how sharp they are, no matter how much handling them slices our fingers and makes us bleed." This book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate...
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
North American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the history, culture, and people of the many Indian tribes that inhabited the region from northern California through the states of New Mexico and Arizona and adjacent parts of Mexico and Texas.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xv, 692 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes...
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