Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT
T R I B A L   L I B R A R Y
The Environmental Protection Department maintains a tribal library located at the FIGR Tribal Office. The library contains an extensive collection of books, magazines and videos of many different tribes throughout North America and related information such as basketry, name places, native plants, archeological studies, native stories and much more. Made possible through grants and donations from tribal members, the tribal library continues to evolve into a great resource center for tribal members. Please come by and visit.
C H I E F   M A R I N:
Leader, Rebel, and Legend
by Betty Goerke

It’s a little known fact that the San Francisco Bay Area’s Marin County is named after a Coast Miwok
chief who achieved notoriety for defying Spanish authority over his people. Anthropologist and
archaeologist Betty Goerke has pieced together a portrait of the life of this Native American leader, using
mission records, ethnographies, explorers’ and missionaries’ diaries and correspondence, and other
material.

Chief Marin became a leader of Native resistance to Spanish colonization at that critical time when, as
the mission system collapsed, California would once again be transformed, this time by Americans. With
marvelous detail, Goerke paints a picture of the California of Marin’s time: the sights, smells, and sounds
of the land; the traditions the Coast Miwok fought to preserve; and the colonial system against which
Marin and other Native American leaders struggled to keep their way of life.

F E A T U R E D   B O O K S
T E N D I N G  T H E   W I L D Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources M. Kat
    Anderson

M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part
from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told
them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were  eaten and which were used for
basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical
source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical
literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and
stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if
we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.
I N T E R V I E W S   W I T H   T O M   S M I T H   &   M A R I A   C O P A
Isabel kelly's Ethnographic Notes of the Coast Miwok Indians of Marin and Southern Sonoma Counties, California
by Mary E. Collier

Edited by Sylvia B. Thalman and Mary Collier. Published by MAPOM. Detailed information on the
Coast Miwok people from extended interview notes made in 1931-1932 by UC Berkeley anthro-
pologist. Topics ranging from food, family, dance, religion and medicine, 20 charts and maps, 46
photographs, and a comprehensive 44 page index. 543 pages.
T H E   S O U N D   OF   R A T T L E S   A N D   C L A P P E R S:
A Collection of New California Indian Writing. 1994.
by Greg Sarris (Editor)

In this excellent anthology of poetry and fiction, edited by Sarris, ten California Indian poets and
storytellers—Janice Gould, Frank La Pena/Tauhindault, James Luna, Stephen Meadows, William
Oandasan, Wendy Rose, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Greg Sarris, Kathleen Smith and Darryl Babe
Wilson—write about the importance of place and community for the peoples that outsiders often regard
as “disappeared.”
H O W   T O   K E E P   Y O U R   L A N G U A G E   A L I V E:
A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning
by Leanne Hinton
with Matt Vera
and Nancy Steele

Awash in worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language
activists are oing something about it: they have created a masterapprentice language program, a one-on-one
approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring that new speakers will take the place of those, often
elderly, who are fluent in endangered languages. How to Keep Your Language Alive is a manual for students
of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh, complete with exercises that can — and should
— be done in the most ordinary of settings, written with great simplicity and directness by a member of the
linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
S U R V I V A L   S K I L L S   O F   N A T I V E   C A L I F O R N I A
by Paul Campbell

In the most comprehensive work of its kind, author Paul Campbell reveals the knowledge he has spent 20
years acquiring and reproducing from California's Natives. Included are sections on basic skills, the tools for
gathering and preparing food, implements for household and personal necessity, as well as the arts of hunting
and fishing.
Magazines and Newspapers
Monthly Magazines and Newspaper Subscriptions

The tribal library maintains a collection of magazines
and newspaper such as National Geographic,
National Geographic for Kids, Indian Country Today and
News From Indian Country. Come by the tribal library
and enjoy the latest news.