The Medicinal Plants Used by Native American Tribes in Southern California by Donna Largo, Daniel McCarthy, and Marcia Roper provides a resource guide for medical providers and traditional health care practitioners in an effort to better coordinate patient care with traditional practices. A secondary purpose is to make available information about traditional medicine to anyone interested in disease prevention through Native American knowledge and traditions. Plants have always played an important role in human history. Plants not only provide food but they can provide clothing, shelter, and medicine. Many plants contain hundreds of chemicals, and most have many active ingredients. Native American knowledge of plant uses is extensive. Current knowledge extends to more than one thousand plants that were used by all Native American Indians, and that is just a fraction of what was once known and used before European contact. Foods introduced by Europeans soon replaced traditional foods, but out of necessity, the practice of traditional plant medicine has survived. Through interviews with tribal elders, as well as information passed down to younger generations, we have been able to highlight thirty-one plants commonly used by Southern California Native American Tribes, which is the limited focus of this study. There are many more medicinal plants that we have documented, but we do not have the necessary data or chemical analysis to include them in this current project.

Medicinal Plants Used by Native American Tribes In Southern California

Donna Largo

Daniel F. McCarthy

Marcia Roper

Malki-Ballena Press

This is the first publication of monograph length on the Kawaiisu Indians of the area east of Bakersfield in Kern County, CA. This book represents the culmination of nearly four decades of research carried out by three different scholars (two of whom are now deceased) in an important but poorly described area of California. It also provides a history of ethnographic research on the obscure Kawaiisu and comparisons with the mythology of other groups in southern California and the Great Basin. Among the topics explored are the coyote cycle, magical transformations, visits to the underworld, and the natural hierarchy of the plant and animal worlds.

Kawaiisu Mythology: An Oral Tradition of South-Central California (Formerly Ballena Press anthropological papers)

Maurice L Zigmond

This is a book that invites the reader to go on a treasure hunt a hunt through our public "attics" in search of the treasures of history, language, wisdom, and art that derived from the many and varied cultures of California Indians. The hunt will lead to museums, libraries, and archives; through cities, villages, and national parks; it will serve as an introduction to the stories and songs, paintings and photographs, clothing and jewelry, skills and crafts, and literature and history of the Indians of Southern California. Teachers in California schools will find it a sourcebook for ideas, since it lists the resources on Indians by California counties in an easily accessible manner. Students and scholars of all levels will find it irreplaceable as an outline, a planner, and a tour guide of Native California. An invaluable volume for anyone studying the ethnography and ethnohistory of Native Californians. After an introductory chapter on how to access and use primary resources, the holdings of libraries, museums, and archives are presented first by California counties in alphabetical order, then by states, and finally by countries.

California Indians: Primary Resources : A Guide to Manuscripts, Artifacts, Documents, Serials, Music, and Illustrations (Formerly Ballena Press , No. 36)

History

Lowell John Bean

Lee Davis

Sylvia Brakke Vane

Joan Berman

Americas

The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist

The Noontide Sun: The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Arlene Benson

Stephen Bowers

Anthropology

The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist

The Noontide Sun: The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 44)

Gives extensive details about sources, and how to access them. Teixeira has put her skill as a librarian and her familiarity with the Costanoan community to excellent use. The book is selling in many areas as scholars realize that the authors guidelines can be applied to other Native American groups.

The Costanoan/Ohlone Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area: A Research Guide (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Lauren S. Teixeira

An innovative biography of an Ohlone Indian, who was appointed an alcalde at Mission Santa Clara, was given a size-able land grant, and managed to retain over 800 acres of it until his death in 1864.

Inigo of Rancho Posolmi: The Life and Times of a Mission Indian (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Laurence H. Shoup

Randall T. Milliken

The verdict is IN on TIPAI ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES from SDSU Press: More than its title promises, Tipai Ethnographic Notes is a rich compendium of information on the Tipai/Diegueno communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s. This is keen observational anthropology at its best...Hohenthal's account touches on virtually every aspect of Tipai culture, describing it as it was. This is... a vivid account of a living culture making its way into the 20th century while holding onto ancient traditions. Tipai Ethnographic Notes deserves an honored place on the bookshelf of every California and Baja California anthropologist. --Ken Hodges, Curator of California Collections, San Diego Museum of Man Tipai Ethnographic Notes is a salvaged treasure. It is a rich trove of ethnographic details native toponyms, kin terms, ancient enmities, and traditional material culture as experienced and remembered by the Tipai, a nearly forgotten people of Baja California... this work is o

Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid-Century (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Thomas C. Blackburn

Lynn, Thomas

Jr. Hohenthal

Margaret Langdon

David B. Kronenfeld

William, D.

An important and authoritative new work to the growing body of literature on the various Native American groups who were living in the area around San Francisco Bay when the Spanish first arrived in the early 1770s.With this volume, Randall Milliken the author of A Time of Little Choice (1997) and Inigo of Rancho Posolmi (1999) once again contributes an important and authoritative new work to the growing body of literature on the various Native American groups who were living in the area around San Francisco Bay when the Spanish first arrived in the early 1770s. Milliken identifies each of the small cultural entities whose members were eventually drawn to Mission San Jose during its period of active recruitment, discusses the myriad historical and social pressures that caused the indigenous population to join the mission system in the absence of coercive military force, and describes in detail the tumultuous events experienced by the native peoples living at that specific mission. Although it has been long thought that the native peoples who once lived in the Bay area vanished too early in time for anthropologists to adequately study and describe their lifeways, the efforts of Randall Milliken and other scholars are beginning to illuminate this forgotten chapter of California history in surprising detail, as this book conclusively demonstrates.

Native Americans at Mission San Jose (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Randall Milliken

SOLD AS IS, NO REFUNDS or RETURNS The author, William Duncan Strong, worked closely with many of the most knowledgeable and respected Indian leaders of the societies which he studied, and their trust in him is reflected in this sensitive analysis and reconstruction of the native cultures of the Cahuilla, Luiseno, Serrano, Cupeno, and other Indian groups of the region. Some leaders shared memories of social, economic, political, and ceremonial life back to the 1850s, resulting in this classic work. The book is one of the richest sources of ethnographic material on social organization, philosophical and religious systems, ceremonial and ritual practices, oral literature and traditions, and the day-to-day lives of these hunting and gathering peoples. Several generations of anthropological researchers have drawn upon Strong s work as the most valuable and richly suggestive reference work on native cultures of the region, Lowell Bean writes in the introduction. Almost single-handedly, Strong brought an ethnographic perspective into sharp focus and posed problems which have been absorbed and will continue to absorb scholars for years. Originally published by the University of California Press in 1929, this work pioneered ethnographic procedures which are still being used and heavily influenced many ethnographers who came after Strong. Anthropologist Ralph Beals has called it the nearest thing to an accurate single account of aboriginal society in southern California we are likely to have. This new reprint contains an appreciation of Strong by his friend Beals and a review of the current status of Shoshonean studies in southern California by Lowell John Bean.

Aboriginal Society in Southern California (Classics in California anthropology)

William Duncan Strong

Archaeology

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