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Friendly Fire Resources

  • Study Guides
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Web Links

Study Guides

Friendly Fire by Rick Foster

Note: All study guides and sources are in PDF format.

  • Teachers’ Brief Guide
  • Introductory Essay
  • Staff Development

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

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ABOLITION

ABOLITION tells the story of two friends, Frederick Douglass and John Brown, during the tumultuous decade leading up to the Civil War. Produced as an acclaimed two-man stage play in Sonora and Sacramento, Duende is now in production of a broadcast quality film adaptation.

Learn more about the progress of the film version, as well as the historical background of the stage play.

Theater venues interested in presenting our production of ABOLITION should contact us to discuss the possibilities.

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On the Blog

Tribute to Frederick Douglass

July 4, 2020 By Rick Foster

A Thumbnail View of Abolition

June 28, 2018 By Rick Foster

A Thumbnail Early Life of Frederick Douglass

June 28, 2018 By Rick Foster

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