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California Indians, Historians, and Ethnographers (18 pages)
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Chumash storyteller and singer Vincent Tumamait
presents a recent program on Indian music as part of
“Chumash Artways,” an ongoing series of events
organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History. Like a number of similar institutions around
the state, the Santa Barbara museum has fashioned a
partnership with contemporary Indians. The Museum
of Natural History attempts to use its staff, collections,
exhibits, and facilities to assist Indians as they seek to
rediscover traditional culture and educate the general
public. Present-day Indians, in turn, also make important contributions to the museum’s work. Courtesy
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
result of the revival of Indian religion.*> Other
prominent native California writers include Edward
Castillo, Katherine Saubel, and the late Elsie Allen.
Non-Indian ethnographers who have become
more prominent in the 1980s include Craig Bates,
Bev Ortiz, Glen Farris, John Johnson, Janice Timbrook, and Lee Davis. One of the most significant
publishing events in the near future is expected to
be the publication of a new ethnography of the
Gabrielino, more complete than any now available, by William McCauley, an independent scholar
without formal anthropological training, who has
carefully combed the Harrington notes and other
sources to illuminate an account of one of the most
elaborate cultural systems in the state.
A second important development beginning in
the 1980s has been the publication by Heyday Books
of N [ ifornia, a periodical that carries articles on ethnography, ethnohistory, and current developments among California Indian groups
over a broad range of topics. It includes, for example, a calendar of events on Indian rancherias and
reservations, and a valuable column on recent legal
events pertaining to California Indians.
California Indian collections and their associated
archives in museums are also assuming a new
importance. In part, this is because able and interested museum curators such as Margaret Hardin,
Paul Apodaca, Rosalie Pepito, Kenneth Hedges,
John Johnson, Judy Polanich, Weldon Johnson,
and Curtis Martin have become prominent in California Indian affairs. In part, it is because the
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