california indian

California Indian Traditional Confederacy Survival Conference
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster consists of blue, green, and yellow print on white paper. Image depicts a bald eagle in flight with a fish in its talons with a full sun in the background. Text reads "California Indian...

1853-1862

John Bigler became governor of California January 1852. Among his first actions was to urge rejection of treaties with California Indian tribes and proposed reservations. Instead of ratifying...

"Ishi, last of the Southern Yana tribe of Indians, formerly on Deer Creek, CA. His people remained wild and in hiding untile 1911, when the others having all died, he gave himself up near...

c.1880-1910

Photographs of Indian life. "Packing wood -- woman, Hupa Tibe, Athapascan family, No. Calif" info from the OMCA green/blue "cross-file record of pictues" paper found in the...

c.1880-1910

Photographs of Indian life. Photographs of Indian life. Photo is of Mrs. Childs, Trinidad, who was 100 years old and blind at time of original photo; (with photo) "The Indian attitude to...

1950-1960

28-page issue of "Yosemite Nature Notes," this one with the theme "Yosemite Indians." Gives information and illustrations relating to the California Indians of the Yosemite Valley.

This...

1950-1960

40-page booklet containing stories of the California Indians of the Yosemite area. Contains photographs and drawings. Stories include: "The Coming of the Indians to the Great Valley," "How the...

 (Two Miners Being Outfitted For the High Sierra)
c. 1856

This tableau depicts two miners, on mules, being outfitted for their journey into the High Sierra. Another man, to the right, poses with paper and pencil in hand, as if tallying up the costs of...

c. 1880

"Daisy and Lena about six months after the missionaries came. Under love, and the power of the Gospel she had become a Christian, and had gone through the first reader."

c. 1910

"These Indian young people, Joseph, Andy, and Lizzie, were refused entrance to a local public school as children. Later, after attending school elsewhere, they returned and sang in a public...

"Indian dance at Mision San Jose"; original drawing by an unidentified artist, and engraved on copper; etched on copper - private press of T.C. Russell, San Francisco; (this copy print reproduced...

c. 1910
C. 1920

North Central Sierra:California Indian

ca. 1915

"Kloochy" - Old McCloud River Indian, 80 years of age; Houseworth Photographer, 12 Montgomery St. San Francisco. Photographs. Description: a-j: Photographs of Warms Springs Indians in costume,...

ca. 1915

"Warm Spring Indian - one of the capturers of the Modoc's"; "Houseworth's Celebrities, 9 & 12 Montgomery St. San Francisco."; negative also. Photographs. Description: a-j: Photographs of...

January 13, 1849

Newspaper published in London, gives English perspective on California Gold Rush. Articles: "The Gold Mines In California," "Geographical Extent and Boundaries of Upper California," "Bay of San...

1894

MOLLIE DUNCAN (c.1879-1931)

Mollie Pettis Duncan was born in Potter Valley, the daughter of Frank and Kate Pettis. She spent her childhood at the Coyote Valley Rancheria, and while...

Californie Indien Dansant
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NOTES: Arkelian, Marjorie. The Kahn Collection of Nineteenth-Century Paintings by Artists in California. TOM. 1975, p. 40. ARTIST BIRTH: 1818 ARTIST DEATH: 1878

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