Lassen Regional Project: Bibliography and Resources
Suggested Readings:
- General References
- Schoenherr, Allan A. A Natural History of California (University of California Press, 1992)
[A fine contemporary natural history of our state.]
- Heizer, R. F. and M. A. Whipple. (Eds.) The California Indians: A Source Book Second Edition (University of California Press, 197)
[A broad collection of articles.]
- Rawls, James J. Indians of California: The Changing Image (University of Oklahoma Press, 1984)
[A fine and relatively brief history of California Indians from pre-contact through the end of the 19th Century.]
- Heizer, Robert F. and Albert B. Elsasser. The Natural World of the California Indians (University of California Press, 1980)
[An excellent introduction to the material cultures of the California Indians.]
- Eargle, Dolan H., Jr. California Indian Country: The Land and the People (Trees Company Press, 1992)
[A comprehensive guide to tribes, habitats, and contemporary reservations/rancherias.]
- History
- Cook, Sherburne F. "Historical Demography", pp. 91-98 in Smithsonian Institution, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8 (California) (Washington D.C., 1978) --- from here onward cited as HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987)
- Wintu
- LaPena, Frank R. "Wintu", pp. 324-340 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Knudtson, Peter M. The Wintun Indians of California and Their Neighbors (NatureGraph Publishers, 1977)
- Masson, Marcelle A Bag of Bones: Legends of the Wintu Indians of Northern California (Naturegraph, 1990)
- Hupa
- Wallace, William J. "Hupa, Chilula, and Whilkut", pp. 64-179 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Goddard, Pliny E. "Life and Culture of the Hupa" in UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1903)
- Nelson, Byron. Our Home Forever: The Hupa Indians of Northern California (Howe Brothers, 1988)
- Goldschmidt, Walter R. and Harold E. Driver. "The Hupa White Deerskin Dance" in UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 35, No. 8 (1940)
- Yana
- Johnson, Jerald Jay. Yana pp. 361-369 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds (University of California Press, 1961)
- Atsugewi
- Garth, T. R. Atsugewi pp. 236-243 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Maidu
- Riddell, Francis A. Maidu and Konkow pp. 370-386 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Dixon, Roland B. The Northern Maidu (AMS Press, 1982)
- Achumawi
- Olmsted, D. L. and Omer C. Stewart. Achumawi pp. 225-235 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Woiche, Istet and C. Hart Merriam Annikadel: The History of the Universe as Told by the Achumawi Indians of California (U. of Arizona Press, 1992)
- Shasta
- Silver, Shirley. Shastan Peoples pp. 2-224 in HNAI, Vol. 8.
- Holsinger, Rosemary (ed.) Shasta Indian Tales (Naturegraph, 1982)
- Renfro, Elizabeth The Shasta Indians of California and Their Neighbors (Naturegraph, 1992)
- Modoc
- Howe, Carrol B. Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon (Binford and Mort, 1979)
- Murray, Keith A. The Modocs and Their War (U. of Oklahoma Press, 1959)
- Riddle, Jeff C. The Indian History of the Modoc War (Urion Press, 1974)
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