Deeper than gold : Indian life in the Sierra foothills / Brian Bibby ; photography by Dugan Aguilar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bibby, Brian.

Contributor:

Aguilar, Dugan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--California--History.

Indians of North America.

California.

History.

Indians of North America--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Portraits.

Indians of North America--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Description and travel--Pictorial works.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Portraits.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xx, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, [2005]

Summary:

Largely hidden from the tourists who travel through California's famed Gold Country, in the Sierra Foothills, is a parallel world of great beauty and wondrous depth -- one filled with the culture and history of Native Americans. While many travelers speed past a meadow, scarcely glancing at two large rocks that lay side by side, Indian people still slow down to look at Earth Maker and Coyote, resting after their labors of creating the world. In the shops and streets of Sonora, Oakhurst, and Grass Valley, one hears mostly English; yet in ceremonial roundhouses just off this beaten track, one can sometimes hear elders converse in Mewuk or other regional native languages. Away from the hotel restaurants and fast-food joints, a woman prepares a ceremonial meal in her backyard by placing red-hot stones into a basket of acorn soup.

Part guide, part literary tribute, this elegantly designed book features the memories and knowledge of the people who know the Gold Country best. With family photographs from private albums and a generous selection of original contemporary photographs by Native American photographer Dugan Aguilar, Deeper Than Gold presents an intimate view of a remarkable and persistent people who still live quietly in the area around Highway 49.

Contents:

1 Northern Sierra Mountain Meadows: Maidu 3

2 Feather River Country: Konkow 22

3 Sierra City to Plymouth: Nisenan 50

4 Plymouth to Angels Camp: Northern Sierra Miwuk 86

5 Angels Camp to Coulterville: Central Sierra Miwuk 117

6 Coulterville to Oakhurst: Southern Sierra Miwuk and Chukchansi 153

Indigenous Linguistic Geography of the Western Slope of the Sierra Nevada 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0930588967

OCLC:

54391930