Tribes of California / Stephen Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--California.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--California.

Indigenous peoples--California.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians of North America--California--Languages.

Indigenous peoples--California--Languages.

Indigenous people--California--Languages.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--California.

Indigenous people--California--Languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1877.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

STEPHEN POWERS' PUBLISHED WRITINGS ON CALIFORNIA INDIANS

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I. THE KÁ-ROK

CHAPTER II. THE KAROK—Continued

CHAPTER III. KAROK FABLES

CHAPTER IV. THE YÚ-EOK

CHAPTER V. THE YUROK—Continued

CHAPTER VI. THE TOL'-O-WA

CHAPTER VII. THE HÚ-PÂ

CHAPTER VIII. THE HUP—Continued

CHAPTER IX. TRIBES TRIBUTARY TO THE HUPÁ

CHAPTER X. THE PAT-A-WĀT

CHAPTER XI. THE VÍ-ARD

CHAPTER XII. THE MAT-TÓAL

CHAPTER XIII. THE WAI'-LAK-KI

CHAPTER XXV. THE YÚ-KI

CHAPTER XV. THE TÁ-TU

CHAPTER XVI. THE PÓMO

CHAPTER XVII. THE POMO—Continued

CHAPTER XVIII. THE YO-KAI'-A

CHAPTER XIX. THE GAL-LI-NO-MÉ-RO

CHAPTER XX. THE GUA-LÁ-LA

CHAPTER XXI. THE ASH-O-CHÍ-MI

CHAPTER XXII. THE KÁ-BI-NA-PEK

CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAKH'-EL-CHEL

CHAPTER XXIV. THE PAT-WIN'

CHAPTER XXV. THE WIN-TÜN'

CHAPTER XXVI. THE SHAS-TÍ-KA

CHAPTER XXVII. THE MO'-DOK

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE A-CHO-MÂ'-WI

CHAPTER XXIX. THE NO'-ZI, ETC.

CHAPTER XXX. THE MAI'-DU

CHAPTER XXXI. THE NI-SHI-NAM

CHAPTER XXXII. THE NISHINAM—Continued

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE MI'-WOK

CHAPTER XXXIV. YOSEMITE

CHAPTER XXXV. THE YO'-KUTS

CHAPTER XXXVI. TRIBES RELATED TO THE PAI-U'-TI

CHAPTER XXXVII. GENERAL FACTS

CHAPTER XXXVIII. ABORIGINAL BOTANY

CHAPTER XXXIX. SUPPLEMENTARY FACTS

EDITOR'S NOTES

MAP

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520342354

0520342356

OCLC:

1163877789