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Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2005. Access through JSTOR. Find at your local library.

———. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. 2nd ed., 2013. Find at your local library.

Ascensión, Antonio de la. “Relación de La Jornada Que Hizo El General Sevastián Vizcayno al Descubrimiento de Las Californias El Año de 1602 Por Mandado Del Señor Excelentísimo Conde de Monterey, Virrey Que Era Dela Nueva España.” In Primera Parte de Los Veinte i vn Libros Rituales i Monarchia Indiana, edited by Juan de Torquemada, 2d ed., 1:693–715. Madrid, Spain: N. Rodriguezfranco, 1723. Find at your local library.

———. “Relación de La Jornada Que Hizo El General Sevastián Vizcayno al Descubrimiento de Las Californias El Año de 1602 Por Mandado Del Señor Excelentísimo Conde de Monterey, Virrey Que Era Dela Nueva España.” In Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century, edited by Henry Raup Wagner, 180–272. California Historical Society. Special Publication 4. San Fransico: California Historical Society, 1929. Find at your local library.

———. “Relación de La Jornada Que Hizo El General Sevastián Vizcayno al Descubrimiento de Las Californias El Año de 1602 Por Mandado Del Señor Excelentísimo Conde de Monterey, Virrey Que Era Dela Nueva España.” In Noticia de La California y de Su Conquista Temporal y Espiritual Hasta El Tiempo Presente. Sacada de La Historia Manuscrita, Formada En México Año de 1739, edited by Miguel Venegas, 3:22–139. México: Reimpreso por L. ALvarez y Alvarez de la Cadena, 1943. Find at your local library.

Bitsoie, Freddie, James O Fraioli, Quentin Bacon, and Gabriella Trujillo. New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian, 2021. Find at your local library.

Bryan, Bruce. Archaeological Explorations on San Nicolas Island. Southwest Museum Papers 22. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1970. Find at your local library.

Cameron, Una B. “The History of San Gabriel Valley.” M.A., University of Southern California, 1938. Find at your local library. Access through LMU.

Cornell, Ralph D. “The Plants of Museum Hill—III: Islay or Mountain Cherry.” The Masterkey 11, no. 3 (1937): 94–96 Find at your local library.

———. “The Plants of Museum Hill—IV: The Catalina Cherry.” The Masterkey 11, no. 4 (1937): 137–39 Find at your local library.

———. “The Plants of Museum Hill—V: The California Bay Tree.” The Masterkey 11, no. 5 (1937): 176–79 Find at your local library.

———. “The Plants of Museum Hill—VI: California’s Christmas Berry, or Toyon.” The Masterkey 11, no. 6 (1937): 204–8 Find at your local library.

Dakin, Susanna Bryant. “Rancho Santa Anita, Place of Many Waters.” Lasca Leaves 6, no. 3 (1956): 50–72. https://www.arboretum.org/issue/lasca-leaves-summer-1956/#.

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“Decolonizing the Diet – How Native Peoples Are Reclaiming Traditional Foods.” Tending the Wild. KCET, September 2016. https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/decolonizing-the-diet.

Dobyns, Henry F. “Trade Centers: The Concept and a Rancherian Culture Area Example.” American Indian Culture & Research Journal 8, no. 1 (1984): 23–35. https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.8.1.d311q81501507k15. Find at your local library.

Eagle Rock – Highland Park 4-H Club, and Autry Museum of the American West, eds. Mixed Nuts: Tongva Use of the Southern California Mixed Oak / Black Walnut Woodland: A Curriculum Guide to the California American Indian Uses of Urban Los Angeles County Woodlands and Environs. Los Angeles, CA: Southwest Museum, 1997. Access through the Autry. Find at your local library.

Eargle, Dolan. California Indian Country: The Land & the People. San Francisco, CA: Trees Company Press, 1992. Find at your local library.

Eisentraut, Phyllisa J. “Investigations of Prehistoric Seed Caches from Site CA-SC1I-1524, San Clemente Island.” Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 26, no. 2/3 (March 1990): 93–113. Find at your local library.

Fages, Don Pedro. “An Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California.” Translated by Herbert J. Priestley. The Catholic Historical Review 4, no. 4 (1919): 486–509. Access through JSTOR.

———. “An Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California, Part II.” Translated by Herbert I. Priestley. The Catholic Historical Review 5, no. 1 (1919): 71–90. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Fages, Pedro. A Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California. Translated by Herbert Ingram Priestley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937. Find at your local library.

Font, Pedro. “Diary Kept by the Father Preacher Fray Pedro Font…During the Journey Which He Made to Monterey…[1775-1776].” In Anza’s California Expeditions, edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton, Vol. 4. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1930. Find at your local library.

Gifford, Edward Winslow. “Californian Balanophagy.” In Essays in Anthropology: Presented to a. L. Kroeber in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday, June 11, 1936, edited by Robert Harry Lowie, 87–98. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1936. Find at your local library.

Glassow, Michael A. “The Significance to California Prehistory of the Earliest Mortars and Pestles.” Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 32, no. 4 (1996): 14–26. http://www.pcas.org/Vol32N4/324Gla.pdf Find at your local library.

Goldberg, Carol Frances. “The Application of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis to Human Dietary Reconstruction in Prehistoric Southern California.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Heizer, Robert F., and Mary A. Whipple, eds. The California Indians: A Source Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. Find at your local library.

———. The California Indians: A Source Book. 2d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Find at your local library.

Heizer, Robert Fleming, and Mary Anne Whipple. The California Indians: A Source Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Find at your local library.

Hudson, Travis, and Thomas C. Blackburn. The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere, Vol. I: Food Procurements and Transportation. Vol. 1. 5 vols. BP-AP, no. 25, 27-28, 30-31. Los Altos, CA: Ballena Press, 1982. Find at your local library.

Johnson, John. The People of Quinquina: San Clemente Island’s Original Inhabitants as Described in Ethnohistoric Documents. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, February 1988. Access online..

KCET. “Decolonize Your Diet: A Conversation With Native Food Educators.” KCET, November 16, 2016. https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/decolonize-your-diet-a-conversation-with-native-food-educators, archived at https://perma.cc/KCH6-2S5A.

Kealhofer, Lisa. “Cultural Interaction during the Spanish Colonial Period: The Plaza Church Site, Los Angeles.” Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Find at your local library.

King, Chester. Prehistoric Native American Cultural Sites in the Santa Monica Mountains, Prepared for the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore Foundation. Topanga, CA: Topanga Anthropological Consultants, 1994. Find at your local library.

Koerper, Henry C., Paul E. Langenwalter II, and Margaret E. Newman. “A ‘Stemmed Butterfly’ Eccentric Crescent and a Lunate Crescent from the Christ College Site, Orange County.” Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 32, no. 2–3 (1996): 110–24. Find at your local library.

Krause, F. Die Kultur der kalifornischen Indianer in ihrer Bedeutung für die Ethnologie und die nordamerikanische Völkerkunde. Leipzig: O. Spamer, 1921. Find at your local library.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis. “A Mission Record of the California Indians From a Manuscript in the Bancroft Library.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8, no. 1 (1908): 1–27. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

Longinos Martínez, José, and Lesley Byrd Simpson. Journal of José Longinos Martínez: Notes and Observations of the Naturalist of the Botanical Expeditionin Old and New California and the South Coast, 1791-1792. San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1961. Find at your local library.

Miller, Bruce W. The Gabrielino. Los Osos, CA: Sand River Press, 1991. Find at your local library.

Miller, Keith William. “Climatic Effects upon Gabrielino Economic Behavior and Cultural Evolution.” M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1992. Find at your local library.

Moriarty, James Robert. “Factors Motivating the Rejection of Agriculture in Pre-Hispanic Southern California.” American Indian Quarterly 7, no. 1 (1983): 41–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/1183881. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR. Access through LMU.

Morris, Steven Leigh. “Before the Padres.” L.A. Weekly. October 1, 1999. Find at your local library.

Pegelow, LeRoy. “The Gabrielino Indians of the Los Angeles Basin.” M.A., California State University, Fullerton, 1984. Find at your local library.

Raab, L. Mark. “An Optimal Foraging Analysis of Prehistoric Shellfish Collecting on San Clemente Island, California.” Journal of Ethnobiology 12, no. 1 (1992): 63–80. Find at your local library. Access through the Society of Ethnobiology.

Raab, L. Mark, Judith F. Porcasi, Katherine Bradford, and Andrew Yatsko. “Debating Cultural Evolution: Regional Implications of Fishing Intensification at Eel Point, San Clemente Island.” Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 31, no. 3 (1995): 3–27. Find at your local library.

Reddy, Seetha N. “Feeding Family and Ancestors: Persistence of Traditional Native American Lifeways during the Mission Period in Coastal Southern California.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 37 (March 2015): 48–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2014.12.006. Find at your local library. Access through ScienceDirect.

Reddy, Seetha N., Justin Lev-Tov, Sarah Van Galder, and Richard Ciolek-Torello. “Fish Tales from the Ballona: The Role of Fish Along the Mainland Coast of Southern California.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 35, no. 2 (2015). Access through eScholarship.

Reid, Hiram A, and Alfred James McClatchie. History of Pasadena, Comprising an Account of the Native Indian, the Early Spanish, the Mexican, the American, the Colony, and the Incorporated. Pasadena: Pasadena History Co., 1895. Find at your local library.

Reid, Hugo. “Hugo Reid’s Account of the Indians of Los Angeles Co.,Cal. Notes and Illustrations by W.J. Hoffman, M.D.” Essex Institute Bulletin 17, no. 1–3 (1885): 133. Access through LMU.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. February 12, 1852. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. July 24, 1852. Find at your local library.

———. “The Indians of Los Angeles County.” Edited by Alexander S. Taylor. California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, The Indianology of California, Second Series, 14, no. 19, 22 (February 11, 1861).

———. The Indians of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles: Arthur M. Ellis, 1926. Find at your local library.

———. The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid’s Letters of 1852. Edited by Robert F. Heizer. Southwest Museum Papers 21. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1968. Find at your local library.

Sturtevant, William C., Garrick Alan Bailey, Douglas H. Ubelaker, Wilcomb E. Washburn, David Damas, June Helm, Wayne P. Suttles, et al., eds. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 8. 17 vols. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Find at your local library.

The Chia Café Collective, Barbara Drake, Lorene Sisquoc, Craig Torres, Abe Sanchez, Daniel McCarthy, Leslie Mouriquand, and Deborah Small. Cooking the Native Way: Chia Café Collective. Berkeley: Chia Café Collective, 2018. Find at your local library.

Tomczyk, Weronika, and Nathan P. Acebo. “Enduring Dimensions of Indigenous Foodways in the Southern Alta California Mountain Hinterlands.” California Archaeology 13, no. 2 (July 3, 2021): 171–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/1947461X.2021.1997515.

Using Indigenous Plants, Food Sovereignty, and Sustainability. DVD. Vol. 3. 6 vols. Ekweenax Tovaangara = “Taking Care of Mother Earth.” California: Indigenous Media Institute, 2015. Access through Cal State Long Beach.

Vizcaino, Sebastián. “De la Salida de Mexico del General.” In Documentos Referentes al Reconocimiento de las Costas de las Californias desde el Cabo de San Lucas al de Mendocino Recopliados en le Archivo de Indias, edited by P. Francisco Carrasco y Guisasola, 68–107. Madrid, 1882. Find at your local library.

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Walker, E. F. “Indians of Southern California.” The Masterkey 11 (1937): 184–94. Find at your local library.

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Wei, Clarissa. “From Prickly Pear to Wild Cherry: Indigenous Foods of California.” KCET, November 14, 2016. https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/a-guide-to-some-indigenous-foods-of-california, archived at https://perma.cc/94RJ-YQM3.

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Yates, L. G. “Section VII Archaeology of California: Southern California.” In Prehistoric Implements: A Reference Book. A Description of the Ornaments, Utensils, and Implements of Pre-Columbian Man in America, edited by Warren K. Moorehead, 230–52. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Co., 1900. Find at your local library.