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Book Contemporary California Indian Basketry

Download or read book Contemporary California Indian Basketry written by Bev Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baskets have been woven for at least 10,000 years in the area now known as the western United States. Originally created by California Indians as utilitarian objects for everyday family use, by the late 1800s baskets had become a commodity that provided much-needed income. Collector interest in baskets resulted in an expanding literature that focused on their collectability, promoted their making with largely store-bought, imported materials, and compared their techniques of fabrication. While most basketry literature, whether scholarly or popular, has largely concerned itself with the object (form, design, materials, technique, and function), since 1970, the literature on basketry has begun to shift its focus to the process and the weavers themselves. The present study begins by surveying the worldwide literature about basketry, with an emphasis on California Indian basketry. It recounts the history of the practice of basketry in California, which began to decline in the 1930s because of lack of need and interest, the economics of the Depression, and a desire to not stand out as Indian. Attention then shifts to organizational efforts by California Indians since 1940 to reverse this trend. By establishing basketry organizations, California Indian women sought to gain respect for their cultures within the dominant society, while, at the same time, rebuilding pride among the young. Based on 30 years of field research with hundreds of California Indian basketmakers statewide, the present study examines the effectiveness of organizational efforts to renew basketry, as well as impediments to its continued practice, including (1) lack of time to learn and weave, and (2) lack of access to properly managed basketry materials growing in safe areas free from chemical contamination. After detailing these issues and the solutions that California Indians have devised to resolve them, the study illustrates the diverse reasons why California Indians continue to make baskets and the varied ways they learn, through the stories of individual weavers, including biographies of four elder basketmakers whose influence was widespread. The humanity, tenacity, and resourcefulness of the weavers are highlighted, as they continue to find new ways to bring an old practice into the future.

Book Final Environmental Impact Statement

Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California State Publications

Download or read book California State Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stanislaus National Forest N F Larson Reforestation and Fuel Reduction Project

Download or read book Stanislaus National Forest N F Larson Reforestation and Fuel Reduction Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modoc National Forest N F Noxious Weed Treatment Project

Download or read book Modoc National Forest N F Noxious Weed Treatment Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sierra National Forest N F Kings River Project

Download or read book Sierra National Forest N F Kings River Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The California Indian Basketweavers Association

Download or read book The California Indian Basketweavers Association written by Catherine Louise Cardozo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment

Download or read book Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evidence for Native American Land use Impacts on Forest Structure and Fire Regimes in the Lower Klamath River Region of California

Download or read book Evidence for Native American Land use Impacts on Forest Structure and Fire Regimes in the Lower Klamath River Region of California written by Jeffrey Nathan Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observers of human/landscape interactions generally agree that Native Americans influenced the landscape, but disagreement exists regarding the scale and degree of this disturbance. The differentiation of anthropogenic from climatic impacts on forest structure and composition is difficult using traditional paleoecological methodologies. The goal of this dissertation is to examine potential human impacts in the paleoecological record using an alternative methodology that incorporates elements of paleoecology, ethnographies, and regional archeology. This will provide a better understanding of how to identify potential anthropogenic signals in the late Holocene and improve upon existing paleoecological methodologies by allowing a more complete analysis of how human culture has impacted physical landscapes. Two lake basins in the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California provided study sites to use a cross-disciplinary methodology. There are three significant facets to this research. The first is a comparison of cross-dated fire scars to the sedimentary charcoal record of fire events. This was used to establish whether the fires detected in the paleoecological (charcoal) record represented local fire events that occurred within or near the lake basins. The results suggest that, while not a perfect match, fire events observed in the sedimentary charcoal record (as charcoal peaks) corresponded with between 50.0% (at Fish Lake) and 87.5% (at Lake Ogaromtoc) of known and inferred fire events detected as fire-scarred trees in the study basins. The second step in detecting anthropogenic landscape impacts in the paleoecological record was to identify anomalous periods of fire and vegetation dynamics not well explained by climate. Vegetation was reconstructed through the analysis of pollen. Paleofire dynamics were reconstructed through the analysis of sedimentary charcoal. Three anomalous periods were identified for further evaluation. In the final step of this research, these three anomalous periods were examined to see if cultural land-use patterns drawn from the regional archeological and anthropological record could better explain the observed dynamics. In all three instances, cultural changes in population or land use patterns better explained the observed dynamics than climatic interpretations, providing evidence of Native American impacts on the fire and vegetation dynamics of the two study sites in the late Holocene. This research provides subtle but clear evidence that human impacts are present at both study sites in modern and pre-historic times. Native American burning practices that have been banned since European settlement strongly influenced the forest structure and fire regimes of the Klamath Mountains. The cessation of Native American burning and modern fire suppression has led to a forest assemblage at each site that is unique in the late Holocene record. This research increases our understanding of how past forests in the Klamath Mountains responded to anthropogenic and climatic forces and encourages modern forest management practices to tailor restoration prescriptions to meet multiple human and ecosystem needs. This research also has broader implications for paleoecological methodologies. A single study cannot resolve the debate over the scale of Native American influences, but further replication of this cross-disciplinary methodology is encouraged at other sites throughout California. Further replication will build a broader dataset of sites, help to determine the scale of Native American impacts, and foster a greater understanding of the connections between the cultural and physical aspects of landscapes in the Klamath Mountains and beyond.

Book Rural California Report

Download or read book Rural California Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protecting People and the Environment

Download or read book Protecting People and the Environment written by California Environmental Protection Agency. Department of Pesticide Regulation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: