Download or read book The Miwok Eagles written by Barry Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miwok Eagles are a set of 1849 ten-dollar gold coins that become part of a bold con game mounted by an international counterfeiter named Fritz Boehmer. Miwok Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area accepted coins like these as payment for some of their land in the 19th Century. Boehmer plans to steal the coins from a San Francisco coin evaluator named Mirza Tarkanian, publicize their disappearance to drive up their value, and offer copies of them for sale. David Moore, co-owner of the Rothmore Security Agency, is trying to hold his swing shift of some fifty widely spread guard posts together when the theft of the Eagles takes place. The theft and resultant death of the coin dealer's nephew are partly his fault because he is late posting a guard to coin dealer Mirza Tarkanian, who frequently uses Moore's security agency when he is moving valuable coins from one place to another. The Miwok Eagles belong to Bess Carman, wealthy and influential owner of a ranch near San Francisco. Tracing the crime to her ranch, Moore begins to unravel the method of the criminals and reveal two murders tied to the crime. He has the help of a female archeologist who is studying Miwok village sites on the ranch. Her name is Kelly Raphael, and she too is disturbed by the activities of Bess Carman's visitors, especially when a servant goes missing. The search for evidence of murder takes Moore on a night hike to a site on the ranch where he finds buried in a dry stream bed, a crucible, a clean and carefully wrapped rifle, and the odor of a body which he has no time to exhume. Moore's efforts to uncover the plot lead him into deadly encounters when he becomes the target of one of the counterfeiters.

Download or read book Miwok Cults written by Edward Winslow Gifford and published by Berkeley, Calif : University of California Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Indians and Their Environment written by Kent Lightfoot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new archaeological findings, it tells how the California Indians lived in vibrant polities, each boasting a rich village life including chiefs, religious specialists, master craftspeople, dances, feasts, and ceremonies. Throughout, the book emphasizes how these diverse communities interacted with the state's varied landscape, enhancing its already bountiful natural resources through various practices centered around prescribed burning. A handy reference section, illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, describes the plants, animals, and minerals the California Indians used for food, basketry and cordage, medicine, and more. At a time when we are grappling with the problems of maintaining habitat diversity and sustainable economies, we find that these native peoples and their traditions have much to teach us about the future, as well as the past, of California.

Download or read book Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok written by Samuel Alfred Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eagle s Plume written by Bruce E. Beans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbol of power, strength, and freedom, the American bald eagle appears on coins, dollar bills, postage stamps, identification cards, and the presidential seal. It is seen everywhere except in the sky, although that is changing; nearly extinct in 1970, the bald eagle has made a modest comeback. In Eagle’s Plume, Bruce E. Beans recounts the compelling, centuries-old story of the bald eagle’s place in American culture and landscape an its struggle for survival. Reviled by western stockmen as a killer of lambs and calves, the bald eagle has been deified by environmentalists as a reminder of America’s natural heritage. When the great national bird was robbed of its habitat and poisoned with pesticides, federal and environmental groups and local communities rallied to save it. Their heroic efforts are chronicled in the book, which also takes the measure and pulse of the bird that so impressed ancient storytellers.

Download or read book Archaic Culture Horizons in the Valley of Mexico written by Alfred Louis Kroeber and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book University of California Publications California Kinship Terminologies written by Frederic Ward Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology written by Edward Winslow Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publication written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Californian Kinship Terminologies written by Edward Winslow Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book AMERICAN ARCHAELOGY AND ETHNOLOGY written by A. L. KROEBER and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Kinship Terminologies written by Edward Winslow Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.

Download or read book Handbook of Indians of Canada written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary, an encyclopedia, an enthnographic overview of Native tribes and their social life and customs, arts, people, villages, languages, and topics of all kinds. Includes a summary of treaties signed ; descriptions and location of Indian [Native, Aboriginal, First Nations] tribes and locations, explanation of terminology, etc. "Synonymy" section includes various spellings of Indian names, tribes and people, etc.

Download or read book The Eagle s Voice written by Gary J. Maier and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In researching a group of about fifty Indian effigy and conical mounds on the north shore of Lake Mendota, at Madison, Wisconsin, Gary Maier came upon a new understanding of these structures, which have been a source of wonder and puzzlement to Europeans since the 1830s. In unearthing the meaning of the mounds as a form of earth writing, Maier also learned much about himself. This is, as one reader said, an exciting detective story, a personal journey through the mounds that will have significant meaning for all readers.

Download or read book Native Peoples A to Z written by Donald Ricky and published by Native American Book Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 3816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A current reference work that reflects the changing times and attitudes of, and towards the indigenous peoples of all the regions of the Americas. --from publisher description.