Are trying to preserve the culture. We see their history all around us if were out at shasta lake and shasta dam in particular. There are lots of controversies. Its been a rough history, and so its important that we learn about this history so we dont repeat some of mistakes that we have made pick pics today wereg to look at the california Indian Library collection. Its part of our local History Collection which is called the blogbogs collection which is nad after mae boggs and its an important piece of the local History Collection. So the calvin Indian Library collection began at uc berkeley. It was then decided to disperse the collection out by the state to 20 different libraries. And so what happened was the collection was divided up based geographically. So what we got here in Shasta County was the information on the native americans from our particular area. In particular we focus on the wind too. Also the outlying tribes. What are the reason this is such an important collection, is because it consists of items that may not have actually ever been published. A lot of it is a regional resource mature so its very unique. Its not information is easily accessible. Here at the library anyone to any member of the public, anyone can come in and use the collection. It does not check out of the building. However, we are very open to making photocopies because these are oneofakind items. So were going to see just, i just highlighted some of my favorite things. The collection and items that gives you a good example of the different types of materials that are in the collection. So this is a sample from the collection from some of the photographs. They are very famously known for the intricate basketweaving. We have some beautiful pictures of some of the art objects, and we do have some actual baskets. These are winto baskets. So you could see that. They use native plant material to make and we these baskets, and they are known for their patterns that they use actually. So this is really important that we preserve this art form. For baskets were used for a variety of things, whether its carrying water, carrying food, just in daytoday life living. Each individual native american tribe did have their own patterns that they used answer these are examples of patterns basketweaving that was done by the winto. The other thing that i wanted to show are the photos. These are really important because these are actual real photos of the winto here in Shasta County. And weve had people come in and actually find relatives that are located in your. Wevwith that people who have nr seen thei her grandparents, and theyre able to find pictures pics of these are real actual photos in here. For each one of the pictures and does describe whose picture is of and where the photo was taken. And also shows us the type of dress they wore during the time. If this is one of my favorite books because we use it so often picked this is a handbook of the indians of california and it actually is a good description of all the tribes in california. And we use this a lot for children, especially in fourth grade, who are doing the reports on native american tribes. This allows us to access all the tribes in california. So this next book is also a bok that is used very often, because this is about the wintu but it is written for kids, and so when the fourthgraders are assigned their report to do a report on a native american tribe, we can get them this book and it very simply lays out how they lived. Talks about the houses that they lived in, their dress. And so theres also typical question on the fourth grade report, so we use this book a lot. The next thing im going to talk about is, its a very important book that is not actually in the california indian collection. It is in our boggs local History Collection and this is the wintu dictionary. There are not very many of these out there. As you can see from the pages, it is not in the best of shape. An important part of preserving the wintu culture is of course preserving the wintu language. It is a dying language. They are not very many people who speak wintu anymore. I do work with the redding rancho rio which is a local rancher reappear every once in a while they do wintu language class and they come in and i explain the collection and that we always get this book editor and thats available for the students to look at. And this is not interesting one. Its the history of indians of Shasta County, and what i find most helpful is it is done chronologically. So what it does is come we can look at a year and references any article that appeared in our local newspaper. On the subject of the native americans. So sometimes i get questions, i want to know what was happening in 1870 with, in terms of native americans. And so we can open this up and go right to that time. , and we can see what was happening from the newspapers perspective. We do have the map which is the really key part of the collection, because women helping people i can show the map and show them where writing is located and where Shasta County is okay. And its a nice depiction of where all the different tribes in california are actually located. So the library helps support preserving the wintu culture with this collection. These materials are always available, any native american or anyone can come in and look at these materials. But we also have some other elements that are actually built into the architecture of the building. Our pavement outsideour community room, the concrete, there is a wintu basket pattern stamped into the concrete, and then they have the redbud plant trees are planted right next to that so people can actually see a pattern on the floor. 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