Explore The CIHCC

Online Publications & Resources

• Map of California Indian pre-contact tribal territories
• American Indians in Children's Literature
• News from Native California offers links to California Indian tribal, health, legal, artistic, cultural, linguistic and media resources.
• Illuminatives, Native Education for All

Video

• "Tending the Wild" : broadcast special exploring the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California
• “More than a Word”: trailer of documentary exploring the history of Native American based sports mascots from the Indigenous perspective.

Publications

California titles

• "Land of our Ancestors," Tribal Eye Productions, 2020. Gary Robinson

Titles from outside California

• “A Man Called Raven”: a tribute to the wisdom of the raven
• “Baby Rattlesnake/Viborita de Cascabel,” A bilingual (English/Spanish) tale of a Pawnee family
• “Bears Make Rock Soup“: Plains Ojibway
• “Buffalo Song”: Plains Ojibway
• “Crazy Horse’s Vision”: the true story of the great Sioux warrior
• “Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message”: an Iriquois celebration as told by a Mohawk chief
• “Jim Thorpe's Bright Path”: biography
• “Kiki's Journey”: A Tiwa family discover their heritage in the Taos Pueblo Reservation.
• “Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood”: experiences of a Pawnee girl in the Phoenix Indian School
• “The People Shall Continue”: Acoma Pueblo
• “This Land is My Land”: Plains Cree history
• “Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story”: biography of a Pima Indian
• “What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?”

Articles

• “A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions,” Craven Street Books, 2015. Elias Castillo
• “An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States,” Revisioning American History Series, Beacon Press, 2015. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
• Cultural Bridging Takeaways: Long-term Relationship Building and Inclusion in Curriculum Development; Author: Rose Borunda
• “Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians,” California Research Bureau, 2002. Kimberly Johnston-Dodds.
• “History of Us: Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria,” Comstock Bonanza Press, 2018. Richard B. Johnson.
• "Home to Medicine Mountain": Maidu youth experience in government-run Indian residential schools in California.
• “Introduction to Ethnic Studies,” Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2016. Dale Allender and Gregory Yee Mark.
• “Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873,” University of Nebraska Press, "Brendan C. Lindsay.
• Proposed Curriculum Framework: Recommended cultural and historical themes
• “Resurrecting the Past: The California Mission Myth,” Great Oak Press, Pechanga, California, 2016. Michelle Lorimer.

Titles from outside California

• “A Man Called Raven”: a tribute to the wisdom of the raven
• “Baby Rattlesnake/Viborita de Cascabel,” A bilingual (English/Spanish) tale of a Pawnee family
• “Bears Make Rock Soup“: Plains Ojibway
• “Buffalo Song”: Plains Ojibway
• “Crazy Horse’s Vision”: the true story of the great Sioux warrior
• “Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message”: an Iriquois celebration as told by a Mohawk chief
• “Jim Thorpe's Bright Path”: biography
• “Kiki's Journey”: A Tiwa family discover their heritage in the Taos Pueblo Reservation.
• “Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood”: experiences of a Pawnee girl in the Phoenix Indian School
• “The People Shall Continue”: Acoma Pueblo
• “This Land is My Land”: Plains Cree history
• “Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story”: biography of a Pima Indian
• “What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?”

Scholarly Articles

• Standing Up to Sugar Cubes: The Contest over Ethnic Identity in California’s Fourth-Grade Mission Curriculum, Southern California Quarterly (Summer 2010)

Indian History In The News

• Ep.2: Forgive But Not Forget, an interview with Dr. Rose Borunda. Past Times - Talking and Teaching History. EuroClio Podcast (7/20/2020)
• The Agua Caliente Story Takes Root in School Curriculum, Palm Springs Life (4/06/2020)
• Indigenous Teachers Offer Longer View Of California History, Jefferson Public Radio (5/20/2019)
• Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California, High Country News (4/29/2019)
• American Indian Heritage Month, California Educator (Oct/Nov 2018)
• Moving beyond the Missions: California Builds Inclusive Native History Curriculum, Nonprofit Quarterly (8/1/18)
• Native Americans Push Schools To Include Their Story In California History Classes, Huffington Post (7/30/18)
• Native Americans push schools to include their story in California history classes, EdSource (7/25/18), San Jose Mercury News (7/29/18)
• 'It’s Not a New Story': Family Separations Open Old Wounds, KQED (6/29/18)
• Education Summit at CIC, News from Native California (10/10/17)
• A New (and More Accurate) Way to Teach California Indian History, CSU System News (10/4/17)
• The California missions school project is becoming a thing of the past. Here’s why., Los Angeles Daily News (9/24/17)
• Good riddance to California’s ‘mission project,' Los Angeles Times (9/19/17)
• Fourth grade mission model project could be history, The San Diego Union-Tribune (9/15/17)
• No more sugar cubes and Popsicle sticks? State urges teachers to scrap 4th-grade mission project,, The Sacramento Bee (9/5/17)
• The next generation of California public school students will skip the 'mission project', SF GATE (8/30/17)
• Repeat after us, say no to the mission project, California History-Social Science Project (5/23/17)
• Mission Project Protests Help Spur Changes, Capital Public Radio (5/17/17)
• The Lesser-Told Story Of The California Missions, Hoodline (3/20/16)
• Lying to Children About the California Missions and the Indians,, Huffington Post (3/23/15)

From Sacramento State News

Experiences From The Field

• Professor helps reframe how state’s mission history is seen, (4/3/18)
• Parent-teacher guides son through alternative mission project, (10/23/17)
• Kumeyaay historian dispels the California origin myth, (10/12/17)
• Professors work to change credential students' thinking about mission project, (10/3/17)
• Teacher makes indigenous people the focus of alternative missions project, (9/15/17)
• Kumeyaay curriculum a useful model for schools, (9/7/17)

Student Stories

• Gabe Medina’s Fourth Grade “Mission” Project, FNX First Nations Experience (2015)

Initiatives & Organizations

• California Indian Storytelling Association
• Maidu Museum
• Tribal Eye Productions creates Native American books and films.