Tribes of California: Volume III

"[Tribes of California] is one of the most remarkable documents ever printed by any government."

-Alfred L. Krober, Handbook of the Indians of California (1925)

The Tribes of California (1877) by Stephen Powers is the third volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). It is a collection of reports that the author recorded while traveling the state on foot and horseback. The reports are divided into four sections entitled...