Native American Heritage Month

November

About Native American Heritage Month

Library of Congress. (n.d). About Native American heritage month. NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.org. Retrieved from http://www.nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/about/
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Selected Resources

Here is the list of books we have on display inside the Library. You can check these out.

Books

398.2 KRO The Inland Whale by Theodora Kroeber
398.2 LAP Legends of the Yosemite Miwok (2007) by Frank La Pena, Craig D. Bates, and Steven P. Medley
398.2 MER The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California (1993) edited by C. Hart Merriam
398.2 WAY The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, & Reminiscences (1993) edited by Malcolm Margolin
970.494 BEA Native Californians: A Theoretical Perspective (1976) edited by Lowell John Bean and Thomas C. Blackburn
970.494 BIB Deeper Than Gold: A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills (2005) by Brian Bibby
970.494 HEI The Destruction of California Indians (1974) edited by Robert F. Heizer
970.494 KRO Almost Ancestors: The First Californians (1968) by Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer
970.494 KRO Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California (1973) by A.L. Kroeber
970.494 KRO Handbook of the Indians of California (1967) by A.L. Kroeber
978.004 MAT American Indians in the Early West (2008) by Sandra K. Matthews
979.4 FAG Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants (2004) by Brian Fagan
979.4 GOD Yosemite Indians (1977) by Elizabeth Godfrey
979.4 HEI The Natural World of the California Indians (1980) by Robert F. Heizer and Albert B. Elsasser
979.4 HUR Indian Survival on the California Frontier (1988) by Albert L. Hurtado
979.4 MAY Indian Summer: Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley (1993) by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield
979.4 PIM Dogtown & Ditches: Life on the Westside (1987) by Wayne Pimentel
979.4004 L First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians (2007) by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland
979.402 Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers (2005) by Kent G. Lightfoot


Databases
American Indian Experience

Websites
Bureau of Indian Affairs
California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
California Museum
California State Library
Central Valley Miwok Tribe
National Museum of the American Indian
Native American Heritage Commission
Native American Heritage Month
State Indian Museum
Tachi-Yokut Tribe
Yosemite Indians