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Scope and Contents Digital file consists of scans of documents of various origins, including: 1) manuscript written by Ralph Heidsiek of San Fernando Valley State College, inferred to be for the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) held in San Diego, 1971. Resource focuses on the Luiseño peoples, including cosmology and religion, and especially on music, dance, and ceremony. 2) Songs/sheet music for works with titles "Flute Tune," "Kashil, Kashil," "Kutomut (U.S. Flag Song)," "Peon Game Song," "Morahash...

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Notes on demographics, primarily of California, handwritten on lined paper. Years noted include 1990, 1991, 1851, and 1890.

Scope and Contents Documents of various origins, including: 1) document titled "ASU CG 8017 technical assistance" examining the causation of poverty in Native American reservations and "Indian values," seemingly written by someone in academia. 2) Chronology of Indian History: 1492-1955, American Aborigine. National Indian Youth Council, Vol. IV, No. 1. 1965. Creator R. Liggle. 3) Handwritten notes by Henry Rodriguez regarding chonology (additions and clarifications, including notes on the Cupeno and Warner's...

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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...