SEPT 24: BEGINNING FLINTKNAPPING. Instructor: Bill Mulloy.
Elements of making stone tools and projectile points from obsidian.
SEPT. 24: MAKING & USING AN ATLATL. A spear throwing device called an
atlatl was a weapon of choice before the bow & arrow.
Teacher: Joe Dabill.
OCT. 1: KASHIA POMO MUSIC & DANCE. Bev Marrufo & members of her family
will teach students how to make a clapper stick or "bat",
traditional accompaniment to dance & prayer. Participants
will learn basic dance steps & finish by dancing in the
roundhouse.
OCT. 1-2: BUCKSKIN TANNING BY THE WET-SCRAPE BRAIN TANNING METHOD.
Participants will learn to make soft durable smoked buckskin.
Instructors: Tamara Wilder, Steven Edholm, Pegg Mathewson.
OCT. 8: **HARVESTING FALL PLANTS**. Autumn food resources will be
located & harvested in a companion piece to the spring plants
class. Ane Rovetta, ethnobotanist & Storyteller Supreme will
be teaching this class. Any class taught by this incredible
woman is worth the time, effort & $$, IMHO.
OCT. 8. MAKE A YOKUTS-STYLE TULE BASKET & SOAP-ROOT BRUSH. Bev. Ortiz.
OCT. 15: MORE FLINTKNAPPING. Bill Mulloy.
OCT. 15: CLAMSHELL BEADS & ORNAMENTS OF ABALONE. Don Thieler &
Sylvia Thalman. Great class. Learn how to work with Abalone
& other shells SAFELY.
OCT. 22: TRADITIONAL FOOD OF NO. CALIFORNIA. Participants will prepare
acorn soup, seaweed, bay nut cakes & various teas. Bev Ortiz.
OCT. 29: MAKING A MINIATURE ACORN GATHERING BASKET. Whole shoot willow
goes into this small twined basket, just at the proper season
for acorn gathering. Sheila Deeg, instructor (prev. studied
with such notables as Mabel McKay, Pomo basket weaver & medicine
woman who passed on a couple of years ago.
OCT. 29-30: MAKING A SINEW-BACKED BOW. Joe Dabill.
A tracking class will also be scheduled. Send no money yet. Flyers
will go out in late July or early August; THEN send money.
Questions? Call Sylvia at 415/ 479-3281 or Don at 415/ 883-4310.
Special fee arrangements are available for California Indians, people
working with groups of Indian kids, and some other interpreters.
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As an aside, MAPOM is very active in many programs that benefit
Native Americans in the Marin area, & sometimes further north. They
have recently been assisting the Federated Coast Miwok in
establishing the descendancy of present day people for a Base Roll of
Coast Miwok people living in 1852. This proof is required by the BIA
as a part of the application by the Coast Miwok for Federal
Recognition as a tribe (sound familiar). There are about 15 people
who were alive in 1852 from whom all present day Coast Miwok people
are descended. By the early 1900s there were of course many more.
This figure differs substantially from the much smaller number given
by anthropologists & writers of the early 1900s (surprised?).
The Nat'l Archives in San Bruno (California) now has three huge books
which contain a typewritten list of California Indians by 1928 roll
number (& therefore pretty much alphabetically) w/their corresponding
Application numbers, degree of blood, tribal affiliation, & place of
residence in 1928. But in order to get the detailed ancestry of
these people, one has to look at their original Applications for
inclusion on the roll.
The National Archives now has on microfilm the 1928 Applications for
about 23,000 California Indians. Applications also include children
& sometimes other relatives, so the 23,000 applications represent
many more people. Don Thieler & Sylvia Thalman looked at the
microfilms on a conventional microfilm projector & found them so
small as to be difficult to read. However, they copied quite
adequately onto 8-1/2 x 11 paper on the microfilm photocopier with a
magnifying lens. MAPOM is assembling a file of 1928 Applications for
Coast Miwok people. Copies will be provided to the Federated Coast
Miwok as part of their permanent archives.
IT SHOULD BE POINTED OUT THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN GET ACCESS TO THEIR
ANCESTRY INFO THROUGH THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN SACRAMENTO.
However, tribes attempting to acquire Federal Recognition, who need
this information for a large number of people, may find it easier to
use the Nat'l Archives facilities. The contact person is Lisa Miller
at the National ARchives: 415/ 876-9009. She should be called ahead
of time if someone wants to use this stuff because she has to get it
from storage archives & load it on a rolling cart and bring it to the
archives research room. Address of the Nat'l Archives Branch is:
1000 Commodore Drive
San Bruno, CA 94006.
It's just south of the Golden Gate National Cemetery. THIS NATIONAL
ARCHIVE BRANCH ALSO HAS CALIFORNIA & NEVADA TRIBAL CENSUSES
1884-1940, WE WELL AS THE USUAL FEDERAL CENSUSES FOR 1790-1920. OF
THESE, CENSUS FROM 1860 TO 1920 MAY BE OF USE IN LOCATING INDIAN
FAMILIES. The 1860 to 1880 censuses can be pretty sketchy. They
also have:
*Enrollment Cards for "5 Civilized Tribes" (Cherokee, Chickasaw,
Creek, Choctaw & Seminole) 1898-1914.
*Records relating to enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion
Miller 1908-1910
*Eastern Cherokee Applications of the US Court of Claims
1906-1909 (one roll)
*Applications from the BIA, Muskogee Area Office, relating to
enrollment in the "Five Civilized Tribes" under the Act of 1896.
*Reported Inspections of the Field Jurisdictions of the Office of
Indian Affairs, 1873-1900 (Calif. & Nevada)
*Census of Creek Indians taken by Parsons & Abbott in 1832.
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