California

Education Thesis (Ph.D)--Stanford University, 2006.

Book review of: Ishi in Three Centuries edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber. Scroll to page 211 to read review.

Argues that Mission San Luis Rey and its buildings at Pala Reservation are "California’s literary place markers" as Canterbury is to Chaucer.

An examination of how writer John Muir's views on the American Indigenous populations changed due to his own personal interactions with the Indigenous populations throughout his life.

Discusses how a child's self-concept, self-esteem, and social identity is influenced by the identification of giftedness.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 35, (pp49-80).

Analyzes how narratives and songs are influenced by language and land, particularly Chinook.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 30 (pp1-338).

Discusses the program that involved hard labour and comments on the students that made the most out of the situation.

Comments on the development of programs to bring California Native American languages back into daily use.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 14, (pp1-154).

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

History Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Fresno, 1997

Focuses on the Cherokee poet's writings in relation to violence directed at the "Digger" Indians in the state of California

Author describes a range of non-academic racism that they have been subject to—micro and macro aggressions enacted by campus security, administrators, and other staff—while employed as an instructor at a university.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 16, (pp47-118).

Authors engage the 1994 article “Missionization among the Costal Chumash of Central California: A Study of Risk Minimization Strategies;” critically considering how the article emphasizes environmental factors as a motivator of the Chumash people and minimizes the influence of missionary and military factors of colonization.

Analyzes the understanding of the excavation's findings in the 1950s.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1998.

Part of: University of California Publications in America Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 25, (ppviii -183).

Discusses the gathering, organized by San Marocs librarians at California State University, of secondary information on Luiseño artifacts and information from a variety of museums, libraries, and private collections.

Land, identity and the claims to land at Point Reyes National Seashore, California.

Authors document the life the Californian Indigenous man purported to be 121 years old and "last of his race" in 1873 and contemplate what can be learned from investigating the true stories of Indigenous centenarians; discusses the discourse of extinction surrounding centenarians, and the role it plays in the imagination of settler culture.

Short documentary about Marie Wilcox a fluent Wukchumni speaker and creator of the Wukchumni dictionary. Duration: 9:36. Related educational material: Indigenous Language Revitalization in California: Grades 3-5. The Importance of Indigenous Language Revitalization: Grades 6-8.

Early Holocene site suggests a heavy reliance on marine resources, particularly abalone, and supplemented by plant foods that were distinct from the resources used on the coastal mainland.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2012.

Explores how extensively obsidian tools were traded and how long they were used.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 5, (pp239-292).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 16, (pp29-45).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 13, (pp175-213).

Discusses the introduction to Western Medicine in communities by students learning about public health and sanitation in the boarding schools.

Comments on the need to enhance culturally relevant mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention programs for urban American Indian/Alaska Native youth.

Palewyami is a dialect of Yokuts and the author explores the reconstruction of the Proto-Yokuts language.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 31, (pp1-14).

Using California land claims to argue that non-Indigenous witnesses and experts must state their personal assumptions, preconceptions, and definitions when presenting evidence for Indigenous land claim cases.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp1-27).

Author cautions researchers on the use of some data information that may contain clerical errors, illegible handwriting, faded ink and missing pages.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology an Ethnology, vol. 18, (pp391-408).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp139-194).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 12, (pp282-338).

Compares advantages and disadvantages of various types of acorn storage methods employed by the Western Mono in California's Sierra Nevada region.

Analysis of the carved horseshoe symbol and its relation to Diegueño girl's initiation ceremony.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol 3.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp111-122).

Looks at the changing perceptions of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, California based on attitudes towards narration types.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2002.

Book review of: Murder State by Brendan C. Lindsay. Review located by scrolling to page 257.

Provides an historical overview of the history of collection, display, and interpretation of material culture in museums. The article also summarizes contemporary opinions of California Aboriginal peoples on museum activities.