USF Intro to Anthropology - Research and Native American Communities Resource Guide: Indigenous People of California

News from Native California is a quarterly magazine devoted to the vibrant cultures, arts, languages, histories, social justice movements, and stories of California’s diverse Indian peoples. We strive to preserve the cherished knowledge of an older generation, provide opportunities for a younger generation making a place for Indian ways in the modern world, and illuminate the beauty of Native cultures to all of California.

The California Historical Society, founded in 1871, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire and empower people to make California's richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.

The Native American Health Center is a non profit organization serving the California Bay Area Native Population and other under-served populations in the Bay Area. 2012 marked NAHC's 40th anniversary; as an organization, we have been serving our community since 1972.

Intertribal Friendship House (IFH) located in Oakland, CA was established in 1955 as one of the first urban American Indian community centers in the nation. It was founded by the American Friends Service Committee to serve the needs of American Indian people relocated from reservations to the San Francisco Bay Area.

All-Californian Oratory Resource Network, also known as acorn.wiki, is a multi-faceted resource for native Californian language revitalization, education, and community building.

Bringing Ohlone small bites, Native teas, smoked meats, and Indigenous food sovereignty back to Berkeley.

The California Indian Museum and Cultural Center was founded in 1996 with the purpose of educating the public about the history, culture, and contemporary life of California Indians and to honor their contributions to civilization.

This guide is for archival resources relating to Indigenous communities of present-day California at The Bancroft Library. Before contact (the meeting of Indigenous peoples and Europeans), this land was home to many dozens of groups of Native peoples with different languages and ways of life.

This LibGuide is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all Native American holdings at The Bancroft Library. Rather, it highlights a variety of materials that have proven useful in class instruction at UC Berkeley, Indigenous language reclamation efforts, and independent research.

Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over 400,000 photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.
The collections on Calisphere have been digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and other important libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state.

This is a gateway to publicly-accessible data and images for all objects held at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. We invite you to explore and discover our collections. Please note that the information provided herein comes from a variety of sources and represents our best effort to provide accurate information. Records for many objects include their original catalog cards, which often date to the early 1900s. These cards may include tribal names and terminology that are today considered unacceptable or offensive, or that may prove inaccurate with further analysis. They have been included to illustrate the information that originally accompanied the objects.

THE SURVEY OF CALIFORNIA AND OTHER INDIAN LANGUAGES is an archive and research center in the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, supporting the documentation, analysis, preservation, and revitalization of the indigenous languages of the Americas.