Selected Bibliography

Indians of the East Bay and Bay Miwok

General Works

Aginsky, Bernard and Ethel, Deep Valley (New York: Stein and Day Publishers) 1967.

Bean, Lowell J., Consulting Editor, Indians of California (San Francisco: California Historical Society), Fall 1992.

Beebe, Rose Marie & Robert M. Senkewicz, Lands of Promise and Despair, Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books), 2001.

Blackburn, Thomas C., and Anderson, Kat, eds. (1993) Before the Wilderness, Environmental Management by Native Californians. Menlo Park: Ballena Press.

Cook, Sherburne F., The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. (Berkeley: Univ.of California Press), 1976.

Gutierrez, Ramon A. and Richard J. Orsi, Contested Eden California Before the Gold Rush, published for the California Historical Society (Berkeley: University of California Press), 1997.

Heizer, Robert F., and Almquist, Alan F., eds. (1971) The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination Under Spain, Mexico and the U.S. to 1920. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Hinton, Leanne. (1994) Flutes of Fire, Essays on California Indian Languages. Berkeley: Heyday Books.

Hurtado, Albert L., Indian Survival on the California Frontier (New Haven: Yale University Press), 1988.

Jackson. Robert J. and Edward Castillo, Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press), 1995.

Kroeber, Alfred L., Handbook of The Indians of California (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution), 1925. (Classic, incomplete on East Bay Indians)

News From Native California, Heyday Books, Box 9145, Berkeley, CA. 94709

Phillips, George Harwood, Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press), 1993.

Rawls, James J., Indians of California, The Changing Image (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press), 1987.

Bay Miwok

Bean, Lowell J., Editor, The Ohlone Past and Present, Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region (Menlo Park: Ballena Press), 1994.

Fredrickson, David and Suzanne B. Stewart, Grace H. Ziesing, editors, Native American History Studies for the Los Vaqueros Project: A Synthesis, Los Vaqueros Project Final Report #2, Rohnert Park: Anthropological Studies Center, 1997.

Heizer Robert F., ed., Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8, California (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution), 1978.

Milliken, Randall T., A Time of Little Choice The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Region 1769-1810 (Novato, Ca. : Ballena Press Publishers' Service), 1995.

-----------, “An Ethnographic Study of the Clayton Area, Contra Costa County, California,” Editors Miley P. Holman and Matthew R. Clark, Cultural Resource Evaluation of Keller Ranch, Clayton, California (San Francisco: Holman and Associates), 1982.

Ohlone and Bay Miwok

Bocek, Barbara R., “Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington,” Economic Botany 38 (2):24-255, 1984.

Heizer Robert F., ed., Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8, California (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution), 1978. Richard Levy, “Costanoan,” pp. 485-495 and “Eastern Miwok,” pp. 398-413.

Margolin, Malcolm, The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area (Berkeley: Heyday Books), 2002. A novel.

Milliken, Randall, California Indians of the Mission San Jose Outreach Area (Davis: Far Western Anthropological Research Group), 2002.

Yamane, Linda, ed., “A Gathering of Voices, The Native Peoples of the Central California Coast,” Santa Cruz History Journal 5, 2002

Archives in the Bay Area, environs

The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley Campus, 510-642-6481

Contra Costa County History Center, 610 Main St., Martinez, CA 94553. Open Tu-Th 9-4, 925-229-1042, cocohistory.com

Sacramento State Library,

National Archives, San Bruno

Publishers

Ballena Press, 823 Valparaiso Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025

Coyote Press, P.O. Box 3377, Salinas, CA 93912

Heyday Books, P.O. Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709

Miwok Archaeological Preserve of Marin, 2255 Las Gallinas Ave., San Rafael, CA 94903

University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Compiled by the Museum of the San Ramon Valley, Beverly Lane, Oct. 2005

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