We recommend the following books (and a few films) to learn more about the topics covered in Duende’s presentations. Note: the following links to Amazon.com benefit Duende by giving us a small portion of the purchase price.
Friendly Fire
Adopted by Indians: A True Story
by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, Malcolm Margolin (Editor), Hilair Chism, Rick Jones (Illustrators), Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997- Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians
edited by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson, Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1993 - Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
by Leanne Hinton, Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1994 - Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years
by Jean-Nicolas Perlot, Howard R. Lamar (Editor), Helen Harding Brentnor (Translator), New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985 - Indian Summer: A True Account of Traditional Life among the Choinumne Indians of California’s San Joaquin Valley
by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, Malcolm Margolin (Forward), Frank F. Latta (Introduction), Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1993 - Indian Survival on the California Frontier
by Albert L. Hurtado, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998 - The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Marlene Smith-Baranzini (Editor), Heyday Books, 1998 - The Sound of Rattles and Clappers: A Collection of New California Indian Writing
edited by Greg Sarris, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1994 - The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences
edited by Malcolm Margolin, Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1981 - Tradition and Innovation: A Basket History of the Indians of the Yosemite-Mono Lake Area
by Craig D. Bates, Martha J. Lee, Yosemite Assn., 1991 - Note: All people interested in Native Californians should get a current catalog from Heyday Books, Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709. They are the prime publisher on the subject. You can also get a subscription to their periodical: News from Native California.
Gunpowder Man
China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston, Vintage Books, 1989- God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
by Jonathan D. Spence, W.W. Norton & Co., 1997 - Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
by Katherine Paterson, Puffin, 1995 - The Great Iron Link: The Building of the Central Pacific Railroad (Great Projects)
by Rosemary Laughlin, Morgan Reynolds, 1996 - The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston, Vintage Books, 1989 - Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel
by Ruthanne Lum McCunn (Preface), Tisha Hooks (Editor), Beacon Press, 1991
The Betsy Ross of the Bears
An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey
by Cecelia Holland, Forge, 1999- The Bidwell-Bartleson Party: 1841 California Emigrant Adventure: The Documents and Memoirs of the Overland Pioneers
by Doyce Nunis (Editor), Western Tanager, 1991 - The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Marlene Smith-Baranzini (Editor), Heyday Books, 1981
The Great Blight
The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America
by Edward Laxton, Henry Holt, 1998- The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849
by Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Charles Woodham, Penguin USA, 1995 - This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52
by Christine Kinealy, Roberts Rinehart Pub., 1995
Vivien
An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Random House, 1997- Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Free Press, 1996 - Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh
by Alexander Walker, Grove Press, 1989 - A Streetcar Named Desire Film (1951)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, et al. Director: Elia Kazan - Fire Over England Film (1937)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, et al. Director: William K. Howard - Gone With the Wind Film (1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, et al. Director: Victor Fleming