Following the Smoke
Basket Camp 2001
RESOURCES
I put together a list of resources relating to Karuk culture and Indian basket-making. This isn't intended to be a comprehensive list -- just a jumping off place if you'd like to know more.
The Hoover Collection of Karuk Baskets is a great reference book that includes information on weaving, materials and weavers. It has photos of the collection at the Clarke Memorial Museum in Eureka. You can contact the museum about ordering the book. I also found this book, along with a long list of Indian basketry books available at the Adobe Gallery in New Mexico -- you might want to check them out too.
Another good basket book is Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers, by Lila M. O'Neal published by the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Naturgraph
Publishers, Inc. has a book called Karuk: The Upriver People by Maureen
Bell that has some good basic information about the tribe. Naturgraph also publishes
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel
Reed who traveled to the area in 1908-09 and wrote about their adventures. I
still haven't read this one. I'm told it's dated, which isn't surprising, but
that there are some cute stories in there.
Heyday Books has a lot of publications relating to California Tribes. I highly recommend Ararapikva: Creation Stories of the People by Julian Lang for info on the Karuk people.
We also talked about the Supreme Court case: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetary Protective Association (better known as the "G-O Road" case) which had to do with a cermonial site in the Six Rivers National Forest. Very briefly: the Indians filed a lawsuit to stop the Forest Service from completing a logging road running from Gasquet to Orleans. They argued that the road ran through sacred country, would prevent the Indians from practicing their religion and violated their First Amendment rights. The Indians lost the case. The Supreme Court reasoned that the government's actions (building a road) did not "coerce" the Indians into violating their religious beliefs nor would they be penalized for practicing their religious activities in the area.
You can find the text of the case on the Native American Studies Department page at Humboldt State and also on Findlaw. There is also a chapter about the case in a book called In Our Defense by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy.
Some other websites
you might want to check out:There is a lot of information online about the tribe -- try Google if you want to find more.
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