Friendly Fire Resources
Study Guides
Note: All study guides and sources are in PDF format.
Primary Sources
- Annotated excerpt from
Gold Seeker by Jean-Nicolas Perlot - Annotated excerpt from
J. Ross Brown on corruption in the Interior Department’s system of distributing goods to the Indians - A recounting of the Miwok story
“Mouse Steals Fire“ - Annotated excerpt from
The Shirley Letters by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe - Annotated excerpt from
William Perkin’s Journal
Secondary Sources
- Annotated excerpt from Before the Wilderness on the use of fire in land management by native peoples
Web Links
- Acorn Festival
A Weekend Of Me-Wuk Heritage Brought To You By The Tuolumne Band Of Me-Wuk at the Tuolumne Rancheria Festival grounds. - A history text by Dr. John M. Anderson
- Yosemite Basketmakers
- Index of “The North American Indian”
This is the tribal index page for the E.S. Curtis collection. Curtis was the great photographer of Indians a hundred years ago. - 1848-1865: The Gold Rush Era
University of California’s Themed Collection - Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
The History Teaching Institute of Ohio State University - Population of Native California – Wikipedia
Estimates of the Native Californian population - To California by Sea
Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Stay East Young Man
Teacher’s Guide from the California Historical Society - California Mines
Historic Mining Photos - The Gold Rush
American Experience: PBS Online