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1995/08/25-Part 11-Corrected Attachment 14, Residence Without Projects Office, Carson City. (Report # NAOO21). [Overview of Native American concerns about ·the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository to be sited at Yucca Mountain, NY. Includes data on Timbisha Shoshone socio-economic status, risk perceptions, and other concerns.] Fowler, ·Catherine S., Maribeth Hamby and Mary Rusco 1987 Native American Studies (Appendix A.5.4) Yucca Mountain Socioeconomic Project, First Year Socioeconomic Progress Report. Nevada Nuclear Waste Projects Office, Carson City. (Report #NAOO(1). [preliminary field data for Nye County and eastern Inyo County (including Death Valley); establishes Native American populations within the area, their history, culture, and socio-economic status.] Gabb, William M. 1867 Vocabulary of the Pah-Ute (Southwestern Nevada) and Shoshone (Southeastern Nevada). Unpublished MS No. 777. Bureau of American Ethnology Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Washington, D.C. [Comparative Vocabulary in Smithsonian Institution form (1863), for 211 works, but incomplete. Collected near Aurora, Nevada on border of California and Nevada "art] foot of Mts. c. Latitude 36°, recorded July 12, 1867. (Form 170)," Of the 211 terms, about 140 are given for Paiute, 46 for Shoshone. The lists seemingly represent Owens Valley and Panamint. File also includes copies by George Gibbs of each of the vocabularies: Paiute, 6 p., and Shoshone, 2 p. (formerly numbered 776 and 779 respectively).] Gould, Richard A. 1963 Aboriginal California Burial and Cremation Practices. University of California Archeological Survey Reports, 63:149-168. Berkeley. [Survey includes data on Northern Paiute, Panamint, Chemehuevi, Atsugewi, Kawaiisu.] Grosscup, Gordon L. 1977 Notes on Boundaries and Culture of the Panamint Shoshone and Owens Valley Paiute. Contributions of the -University of California Archaeological Research Facility 35:109-150. Berkeley. [Attempts to resolve conflicting boundary data and augment other ethnographic data with the then newly available data from C. Hart Merriam's fieldnotes. Includes comparison of Merriam's and J. Steward's place names; photos by Merriam.] Hamby, Maribeth 1988 The Timbisha Shoshone and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. Report submitted to Cultural Resources Consultants, Ltd., for the Nevada Nuclear 205 Waste Projects Office, Carson City. (Report #NAOO26). [Socioeconomic status, sketch of culture history, concerns for construction of proposed high-level waste repository in southern Nevada.] 1988 Native Americans: Contemporary Socioeconomic Sketches, Esmeralda and Lincoln Counties, and Death Valley. Report submitted to Cultural Resources Consultants, Ltd., for the Nevada Nuclear Waste Projects Office, Carson City. (Report NNAOO(6). [Review of culture history of Western Shoshone people in these three areas; also contemporary socio-economic sketches.] Harrington, Mark R. 1937 Ancient Tribes of the Boulder Dam Country. Southwest Museum Leaflets 9:1- 28. Los Angeles. [Review of southern Nevada prehistory; historic occupations, including Southern Paiute, Chemehuevi, Walapai, Mohave and Panamint Shoshoni, with notes on their material culture and subsistence patterns.] 1950 "Little Devil So High. " Masterkey 24(5):170. Los Angeles. [panamint Shoshone'S interpretation of petroglyphs in Mt. Charleston area, southern Nevada.] Heizer, Robert F. (Comp. and Ed.) 1966 Ethnographic Notes on California Indian Tribes. C. Hart Merriam. University of California Archeological Survey Reports 68(pt. 1):1-166. Berkeley. [Selections from Merriam's unpublished notes on Northern Paiute, Owens Valley Paiute, Washo, Achomawi-Atsugewi, Panamint, Western Shoshone, Bannock, Gosiute.] 1979 Indian Names for Plants and Animals among Californian and other Western North American Tribes by C. Hart Merriam. Ballena Press Publications in Archaeology. Ethnology and History 14. Socorro, NM. [panamint Shoshone lists recorded at Panamint Valley, Waukova, Olancha, Death Valley and Darwin, October 1902; November 1909; April 1931; April 1932. Unfortunately, all merged.] Henshaw, H. M. '. 1883 Panamint Vocabulary. Unpublished MS No. 786, Bureau of American Ethnology Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Washington, D.C. 154 pp. [Vocabulary collected at Darwin, California, in Powell's "Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages" (1880) schedule; partially fllled, with a few ethnographic notes added.] 206 Herron John G. 1981 Death Valley Ethnohistorical Study of the Timbisha Band of Shoshone Indians. Cultural Anthropologist, Branch of History. Alaska/Pacific Northwest/Western Team. Denver Service Center. (September 1981) [preliminary document toward petition for federal recognition by the Timbisha tribe. Includes data on history of village at Furnace Creek.] Hewes, Gordon W. 1952 Californian Flicker-Quill Headbands in the Light of an Ancient Colorado Cave Specimen. American Antiquity 18(2): 147-54. Salt Lake City. [Mantles Cave, Dinosaur National Monument; Basin occurrences from Culture Element Distribution lists, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and California. Includes note on Panamint use as well as Tiibatalabal, Northern Paiute, Washo.] Hoffman, Walter J. 1896 The Menomini Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual Reports, 14th, Pt. 1:3-328. Washington. [See especially pp. 282-4 for description of arrow making by Panamint Shoshone, Southern Paiute, Walapai, Ute, Chemehuevi, Owens Valley Paiute; pp. 246, 287, for Mohave.] Huey, Laurence M. 1938 Willie of Death Valley. Desert Magazine 1(10):22-3. EI Centro. [Shoshoni camped on Furnace Creek; photo of wickiUps.] Hunt, Charles B. n.d. Trails and Travel in Death Valley National Monument. Unpublished MS, Death Valley National Monument, CA. [Includes considerable data on trails, including those supposedly attributed at least initially to Indian people.] Irwin, Charles, ed. 1980 The Shoshone Indians of Inyo County, California: The Kerr Manuscript. Ballena Press Publications in Archaeology. Ethnology and History 15. Socorro, NM. [Data collected in the 1930s by Mark Kerr, primarily in · Panamint and Saline valleys; includes notes on subsistence, material culture, mythology, other traditions; illustrations from collections of Eastern California Museum, Independence. ] Kelly, Isabel T. 1932-33 Southern Paiute Field Notes. UnpUblished Ms in C. Fowler's possession. 1000 + pages, plus maps. [Basic ethnographic descriptions of all Southern Paiute groups, including the Las 207 Vegas and Chemehuevi neighbors of the Death Valley and Panamint Shoshone people; references to interactions between Southern Paiute and Panamint peoples.] 1934 Southern Paiute Bands. American Anthropologist 36(4):548-60. [Discusses the Death Valley Shoshone - Southern Paiute boundary in Ash Meadows.] Kirk, Ruth E. 1952 Panamint Basketry - A Dying Art. Masterkey 26(3):76-86. Los Angeles. [Notes on manufacturing techniques, materials used, decoration, time required in production, etc.] 1953 Where Hungry Bill Once Lived. pesert Magazine 16(3): 15-8. E1 Centro. [Death Valley Shoshone; good picture of a Shoshone grass house.] 1960 Indians of the 'Land Afire.' Desert Magazine 23(7): 4-5. EI Centro. [panamint Indians of Death Valley, California.] Kroeber, Alfred L. 1922 Elements of Culture in Native California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 13(8):259-328. Berkeley. [Comparison of cultural features for many California tribes, including Panamint Shoshone and adjacent groups.] 1925 Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington. [Includes a section on the Koso or Panamint Shoshone that outlines subsistence, kinship, and ceremony. lllustrations from Lowie Museum collections.] Lamb, Sydney 1958 Linguistic Prehistory in the Great Basin. International Journal of American Linguistics 24(2):95-100. [Includes the hypothesis of an origin for the Numic language branch in Death Valley.] Lawbaugh, A. LaVielle 1950 Sacred Mountain of the Tribesmen. Desert Magazine 14(1): 18-21. Los Angeles. [Ceremonial stone rings, including at Black Mountain in E1 Paso Mountains; Mohave, Chemehuevi, Panamint interpretations.] Leadingham, Grace 1963 Juliet Wells Brier, Heroine of Death Valley. Pacific Historian 7(4):171-8; 8 [1964] (1):13-20; 2:67-74; 3: 121-8. Stockton. 208 [Historical account with several references to Death Valley Indian people throughout. ] Lee, Bourke 1930 Death Valley. The Macmillan Co., New York. [Not documented. See chapters 2 and 3, pp. 27-85 for much interesting data; however, Lee apparently considers Northern Paiute, Shoshone and Southern Paiute all under the heading of Paiute.] 1932 Death "alley Men: An Account of Death Valley Including Its Main Trails. Roads. and Perils. The Macmillan Co., New York. [p. vii, Paiute songs; p. 113, Forty Mile Canyon petroglyphs; other miscellaneous information; see comment on above reference by same author.] Levy, Benjamin 1969 Death Valley National Monument: Historical Background Study. Unpublished Ms, prepared by the Department of History, NPS, Denver; Death Valley National Monument, CA. [Several references to Death Valley Indian personalities, including Hungry Bill, Tom Wilson, Panamint John.] Lingenfelter, Richard E. 1986 Death Valley and The Amargosa: · A Land of I11usion. University of California Press, Berkeley. [Latest and most thorough compilation of historical documents and references, with analysis; contains numerous references to Indian people (Death Valley Shoshone and Ash Meadows Southern Paiute), especially in early chapters.] McLaughlin, John E. 1987
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