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Related Publications (nonfiction):

"Paleoamerican Origins," an article in the online Encylopedia Smithsonian.

 

 American Antiquity. Volume 71, no. 4 (2006): 759-770.


Ramón Gutiérrez and Richard Orsi, ed. Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (1997).

Travis Hudson, Thomas Blackburn, Rosario Curletti, and Janice Timbrook. The Eye of the Flute: Chumash Traditional History and Ritual as Told by Fernando Librado Kitsepawit to John P. Harrington (1977).

Geoffrey Irwin. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of the Pacific (1992).

Chester King. Evolution of the Chumash Society (1990).

Alfred Kroeber. Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America (1939).

Clifton Kroeber and Karl Kroeber, ed., Ishi in Three Centuries (2003).


Theodora Kroeber. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (1961).


Peter Nabokov. “Reconstituting the Chumash: A Review Essay.” American Indian Quarterly (1989).


Orin Starn. Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian (2004).

Related Publications (fiction):

Lawrence Holcomb. The Last Yahi: A Novel About Ishi (2000).

Web / Multimedia Suggestions:

http://www.santaynezchumash.org/history.html

http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/index.htm

http://missiontour.org/related/chumash.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/yat/index.htm

Online Resources Related to "Bird Songs":

http://americanindiansource.com/traditionalbird.html

http://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov/culture.php

http://www.morongocasinoresort.com/pow_song.cfm

 

Films / Documentaries:

"Ishi, the last Yahi." Directed by Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts, 1992.

Terminology links:

 

Bering Strait land bridge
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/origin.htm

 

Hokan group
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040760/Hokan-languages

Hunter-gatherers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer

Redding Rancheria
http://www.redding-rancheria.com/

Three Knolls Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahi

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