This classic of American Indian ethnography, originally published in 1877, is again available in its complete form. In the summers of 1871 and 1872 Powers visited Indian groups in the northern two-thirds of California. A journalist by profession, he was untrained in ethnography, but was nonetheless an astonishingly intelligent observer who had a gift for writing in a spirited manner. He reported faithfully what he heard and portrayed accurately what he saw among the native survivors of Gold Rush days in a series of seventeen articles published mostly in The Overland Monthly. These were partly unwritten, added to, and reorganized by Powers to be published in 1877 as a report of the U.S. Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Powers’ book is still basic and is referred to by everyone who deals with native cultures. The 1877 edition was not large, and Tribes of California is at last reprinted in response to growing demand for this rare volume. For this edition all of the original illustrations have been retained and the basic text printed in facsimile. Professor Robert F. Heizer has provided annotations throughout and an introduction to indicate contemporary thought about the volume.

Tribes of California

History

Heizer, Robert F.

POWERS., STEPHEN

Americas

University of California Press

Original documents concerning Ishi, "the last wild Indian of North America," detail the last five years of his life after his discovery took him from the Stone Age to modern civilization

Ishi, the Last Yahi: A Documentary History

Univ. Of California Pr.

Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California

Politics & Social Sciences

Baumhoff, Martin A.

Anthropology

To Make my Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Philip, Drucker

Social Sciences

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.

Four Ages of Tsurai: A Documentary History of the Indian Village on Trinidad Bay

Cutter, Donald C.

Mills, John E.

The Four Ages of Tsurai: A Documentary History of the Indian Village on Trinidad Bay

Federal Concern About Conditions of California (Ballena Press publications in archaeology, ethnology, and history ; no. 13) [Jun 01, 1978] Heizer, Robert F. ...

Federal Concern About Conditions of California

Archaeology

Ballena Pr

Anza and the Northwest Frontier of New Spain

Reference

Southwest Museum

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Guide to Archaeological Field Methods

Hassell Street Press

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