Wintu Ethnography
Author: Cora Dubois
Publisher:
Published: 1935-10
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781555673048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cora Dubois
Publisher:
Published: 1935-10
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781555673048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher: Berkeley ; s.n.
Published: 1935
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alice Shepherd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780520097483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alice Shepherd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-07-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0520341074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families, both for theoretical purposes and deeper comparison with other proto- or pre-languages.
Author: Herbert W. Luthin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-06-26
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 0520935365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography.
Author: Benjamin Madley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 0300182171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.