Books, Articles, and Other Documents
Books on California Indians (*highly recommended)
*American Genocide by Benjamin Madley
Bring Them under Subjection by George Harwood Phillips
*California Indian Languages by Victor Golla
Chiefs and Challengers by George Harwood Phillips
*Children of Coyote by Steven Hackel
The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization by Sherburne Cook
Converting California by James Sandos
The Destruction of California Indians by Robert Heizer
Exterminate Them! by Clifford Trafzer and Joel Hyer
Indian Population Decline by Robert H. Jackson
Indian Survival on the California Frontier by Albert Hurtado
Indians and Indian Agents by George Hardwood Phillips
Indians and Intruders by George Harwood Phillips
*Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization by Robert Jackson and Edward Castillo
*Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants by Kent Lightfoot
*Indians of California by John Rawls
*The Missions of California by Rupert and Jeannette Costo
Murder State by Brendan Lindsay
The Other Californians by Robert Heizer and Alan Almquist
Thrown Among Strangers by Douglas Monroy
When the Great Spirit Died by William Secrest
Bring Them under Subjection by George Harwood Phillips
*California Indian Languages by Victor Golla
Chiefs and Challengers by George Harwood Phillips
*Children of Coyote by Steven Hackel
The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization by Sherburne Cook
Converting California by James Sandos
The Destruction of California Indians by Robert Heizer
Exterminate Them! by Clifford Trafzer and Joel Hyer
Indian Population Decline by Robert H. Jackson
Indian Survival on the California Frontier by Albert Hurtado
Indians and Indian Agents by George Hardwood Phillips
Indians and Intruders by George Harwood Phillips
*Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization by Robert Jackson and Edward Castillo
*Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants by Kent Lightfoot
*Indians of California by John Rawls
*The Missions of California by Rupert and Jeannette Costo
Murder State by Brendan Lindsay
The Other Californians by Robert Heizer and Alan Almquist
Thrown Among Strangers by Douglas Monroy
When the Great Spirit Died by William Secrest
Books on the Ohlone
A Time of Little Choice by Randall Milliken
The Costanoan Indians, edited by Robert Heizer
The First Spanish Entry into the San Francisco Bay, edited by John Galvin
Inigo of Rancho Posolmi by Laurence Shoup and Randall Milliken
Native Americans at Mission San Jose by Randall Milliken
The Ohlone Past and Present, edited by Lowell Bean
The Costanoan Indians, edited by Robert Heizer
The First Spanish Entry into the San Francisco Bay, edited by John Galvin
Inigo of Rancho Posolmi by Laurence Shoup and Randall Milliken
Native Americans at Mission San Jose by Randall Milliken
The Ohlone Past and Present, edited by Lowell Bean
Books to Read with Caution (some are biased, have an unsound methodological approach, etc.)
A Cross of Thorns by Elias Castillo
Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco by Quincy Newell
The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin
San Francisco or Mission Dolores by Zephryn Engelhardt
Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco by Quincy Newell
The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin
San Francisco or Mission Dolores by Zephryn Engelhardt
Select Articles
Baer, Kurt. 1959. “California Indian Art.” The Americas 16 (1): 23–44.
Bocek, Barbara. "Subsistence, Settlement and Tribelet Territories on the Eastern San Francisco Peninsula."
Brown, Alan K. 1973. “San Francisco Bay Costanoan.” International Journal of American Linguistics 39 (3): 184–89.
Cordero, Jonathan. 2015. “Native Persistence: Marriage, Social Structure, Political Leadership, and Intertribal Relations at Mission Dolores, 1777-1800.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 35(1).
Field, Les W. 1999. “Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the ‘Unacknowledged Tribes’ of California.” Current Anthropology 40 (2): 193–209.
Geiger, Maynard. 1967. “New Data on the Buildings of Mission San Francisco.” California Historical Society Quarterly 46 (3): 195–205.
Guerrero, Vladimir, Historical Society of Southern California, and Autry National Center. Southwest Museum of the American Indian. 2010. Caste, Race, and Class in Spanish California. Southern California Quarterly, V. 92, No. 1. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historical Society of Southern California.
Jackson, Robert H. 1984. “Gentile Recruitment and Population Movements in the San Francisco Bay Area Missions.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Vol 6, No 2.
Jackson, Robert H. 1992. “The Dynamic of Indian Demographic Collapse in the San Francisco Bay Missions, Alta California, 1776-1840.” American Indian Quarterly 16 (2): 141–56.
Kroeber, A. L, and Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. 1967. "The Costanoans," in Handbook of the Indians of California. United States. Bureau of American Ethonology Bulletin, 78. Berkeley, California: California Book.
Mathes, Valerie Sherer. 1993. “The California Mission Indian Commission of 1891: The Legacy of Helen Hunt Jackson.” California History 72 (4): 338–59.
Skowronek, Russell K. 1998. “Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California.” Ethnohistory 45 (4): 675–708.
Bocek, Barbara. "Subsistence, Settlement and Tribelet Territories on the Eastern San Francisco Peninsula."
Brown, Alan K. 1973. “San Francisco Bay Costanoan.” International Journal of American Linguistics 39 (3): 184–89.
Cordero, Jonathan. 2015. “Native Persistence: Marriage, Social Structure, Political Leadership, and Intertribal Relations at Mission Dolores, 1777-1800.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 35(1).
Field, Les W. 1999. “Complicities and Collaborations: Anthropologists and the ‘Unacknowledged Tribes’ of California.” Current Anthropology 40 (2): 193–209.
Geiger, Maynard. 1967. “New Data on the Buildings of Mission San Francisco.” California Historical Society Quarterly 46 (3): 195–205.
Guerrero, Vladimir, Historical Society of Southern California, and Autry National Center. Southwest Museum of the American Indian. 2010. Caste, Race, and Class in Spanish California. Southern California Quarterly, V. 92, No. 1. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historical Society of Southern California.
Jackson, Robert H. 1984. “Gentile Recruitment and Population Movements in the San Francisco Bay Area Missions.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology Vol 6, No 2.
Jackson, Robert H. 1992. “The Dynamic of Indian Demographic Collapse in the San Francisco Bay Missions, Alta California, 1776-1840.” American Indian Quarterly 16 (2): 141–56.
Kroeber, A. L, and Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. 1967. "The Costanoans," in Handbook of the Indians of California. United States. Bureau of American Ethonology Bulletin, 78. Berkeley, California: California Book.
Mathes, Valerie Sherer. 1993. “The California Mission Indian Commission of 1891: The Legacy of Helen Hunt Jackson.” California History 72 (4): 338–59.
Skowronek, Russell K. 1998. “Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California.” Ethnohistory 45 (4): 675–708.
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