COURSE OBJECTIVES

Indians of California is a survey course designed to provide students with a broad understanding of the diversity of California Indians. Both past and present issues are discussed. Included during the term will be some discussion of the relationship between Indians of California and the State of California.

TEACHERS

Delores J. Huff, Cherokee, is Professor Emerita of American Indian Studies at California State University, Fresno. She is a former Director of Education for the Boston Indian Center and Principal of the Pierre Indian Learning Center in South Dakota. In recent years, she has served as a delegate to the White House Conference on Indian Education and as an education evaluator and planner for different tribes.

Renate Bartl holds an M.A. in American Cultural History, Ethnology and Political Science from the University of Munich. Her fields of research are the so-called "tri-racial" groups, American Indians, Free Blacks and Persons of Color, and colonial history of the Eastern USA.

 LINKS

H-CALIFORNIA: http://www.h-net.org/~cal/

California Indian Reservations: https://eee.uci.edu/clients/tcthorne/NewDirections/calrezmap1.gif

California State Advisory Commission on Indian Affairs: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7580051w

California Native American Heritage Commission: http://www.nahc.ca.gov/

LITERATURE

• Bean, Lowell John & Blackburn, Thomas C (eds.). 1976. Native Californians. Socorro/N.M.: Ballena Pr.
   
• Heizer, Robert Fleming. 1978. Handbook of North American Indians: California. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press
   
• Kroeber, Alfred Louis. 1976. Handbook of the Indians of California. (Washington: Gov. Print. Off. 1975. Unabridged republ.) / New York: Dover Publ. 1976.
   
• Rawls, James J. 1984. Indians of California: the changing image. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1984.