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Select pages from a development report, Section I, regarding economic development for California reservations. Author possibly the Office of Local Economic Development.

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Excerpt of section titled Luiseño Creation from the book The Religion of the Luiseño Indians of Southern California by Constance Goddard DuBois.

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Photocopy of article, "The Luiseño Creation Myth" from The Masterkey journal.

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Photocopy of article, "The Religious Practices of the Digueño Indians," from the University of California Publications in American Archaelogy and Ethnology.

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Typescript recounting of story told to Ben L. Squier by a Manzanita man, Santos Lopez, recounting a Kumeyaay creation story.

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Typescript biography of Eugene Buechel, a "non-Indian authority on the Lakota language," pastor, and photographer at the St. Francis and Holy Rosary Missions, Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations.

Scope and Contents Typescript syllabus for course American Indian Literature, by Stephanie Mood, instructor at Grossmont College. Syllabus includes logistical course information but also information about Native American tribes located within San Diego County, including demographic information and information regarding reservations, as well as a map of linguistic groups and families of California Indians, a map reproduction of the Prinicipal Indian Tribes of North America, a list of state names taken from...

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Academic paper regarding the eras and evolution of Federal-American Indian policy development. Paper contains three sections, each prepared by a different author: 1) The Formative Years -- Policy Development Through 1871 (Young); 2) The Strategy of Assimilation -- Policy Development: 1871-1920 (Buffalohead); 3) The Right to Choose -- A Policy For the Future (McNickle). Temporal coverage of paper 1607-1871; 1871-1920; 1920-.

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Paper by self-identified academic historian musing about human nature.

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List of state names that come from Native American words, with definition of words and tribes from which the words derive.