California

Reports results from an adult and a youth survey regarding personal experiences, and nine focus groups. Themes and findings included victimization, the role of alcohol and drugs, reporting of incidents, perceptions of law enforcement and court responses, appropriate court sanctions, youth and teen dating violence, services and community awareness.

According to a survey by the Native American Career Education in Natural Resources (NACENR), there was a relationship between minority status and employment, unlike the earlier findings by the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Book reviews of: The Earth Is Our Mother: A Guide to the Indians of California, Their Locales and Historic Sites by Dolan H. Eargle, Jr. Washo Shamans and Peyotists: Religious Conflict in an American Indian Tribe by Edgar E. Siskin. California's Chumash Indians: A Project of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Education Center by Lynne McCall and Rosalind Perry.

Book reviews of: Philadelphia Flowers by Roberta Whiteman. Life Amongst the Modocs by Joaquin Miller. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

[History?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2009.

Uses responses to surveys and interviews which asked questions about health outcomes and behaviors, social relationships, and cultural participation to create a quantitative and qualitative look at the response to, and impact of, COVID-19.

Book review of: Rock Art at Little Lake by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Gordon Hull, John C. Bretney.

Article focuses on the meaning of the occupation rather than the function, as well as the language, imagery, ideology and ideals attached to the event.

Author articulates the problematic roots of anthropology as salvage ethnography. Discusses the discipline's contemporary relationships with Indigenous peoples in the context of a tribal college library.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 11, (pp189-277).

Focuses on the Europeans' impact on Yurok, Hupa, and Karok peoples and how subsequent changes to religious ceremonies have caused many to refuse to participate in them.

Compilation of sources, that occasionally reach back into the 1970s for less well known publications. Paper also supplies source abbreviations.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California Riverside, 2003.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 11, (pp279-290).

Describes the events leading up to the exhumation of about 60 Native Americans by the Catholic Church to make way for a Parrish hall.

Author investigates the relationship between the Shaker Church and the Indigenous peoples of northwestern California; argues that the relationship is one of dialogue rather than conversion.

Looks at the way diasporic experience builds and represents identities in the documentary video project entitled Taraspanglish Shorts/Cortos Tarasplanglish.

Forms part of Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v.17 (p.381-498).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 7, (pp309-356).

Examines two themes: the violent nature of Great Basin Indian history, and the sacred and cultural landscapes described by the salt songs of the Nuwuvi people.

Book review of: The Sierra Nevada Before History by Louise A. Jackson. Review located by scrolling to page 229.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 36, (pp149-178).

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, 2002.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of San Diego, 2017.

Website focuses on identifying the locations most suitable for utility-scale solar energy development, and evaluating potential environmental, social, and economic effects.

International and Multicultural Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of San Francisco, 2001.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 29, (pp177-252).

Review of written works on illness and healing by Native American tribes in the Southern California region.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp295-358).

Examines reading and writing as separate skills; how writing enables communication to travel up the hierarchy and how historically the Southern Paiutes historically used their new writing abilities.

Policy, Planning and Development Thesis (D.P.A.)--University of Southern California, 2003.

Explores Murieta's story and suggests that it is an epic story of heroism because he speaks not only for the poor but also for the racially and ethnically oppressed. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1999.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2001.

Describes the conversion and control of Aboriginal people by Franciscans; analyzes and identifies leadership selection patterns and the role of leaders in relation to the missions.

Provides case updates from various states.

Study of fractured stones reveals that they were created naturally, rather than man-made.

Research compares height measurements of various populations testing the assumption that the taller the population the better the overall health; findings suggest other variables should also be considered..

Describes the sterilization law that was in effect in California from 1909 to 1979 and discusses the legacy of eugenics.

The author describes his own experience of finding spiritual balance through a visit to the Tolowa's Yontockey village. The author examines how he found this spiritual balance, how he came to this realization and its implications.

Describes the role of narrative and land-based education in an eco-restoration forestry program and negotiations between the North Fork Mono Tribe and U.S. Forestry Service with respect to forest management.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 13, (pp329-414).

Identifies three dimensions of Indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, landscape management practices) as important elements in colonial research.

Investigates the work of two anthropologists to show how they have the power to affirm or negate the suffering of the Yurok people in California.

Conducted from May to June 2020 and represents 97 Tribes.