Title |
Black sun of the Miwok
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Names |
Burrows, Jack.
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Book Number |
DBC19516
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Title Status |
Download Only
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
The author, who grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Murphys, California, writes about six Miwok Indians he knew there in the 1920s and 1930s. His sympathetic portraits describe the devastation suffered for decades by the Miwoks, beginning with the gold rush, which nearly destroyed their culture. Descriptions of sex, strong language and violence. Californiana Collection.
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Narrator |
Rosenfeld, Bill.
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Local Subject |
Biography & Autobiography - BIO
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Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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History, United States - HUS
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History - HST
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History - History of the American West - HUSW
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Californiana Collection - CAC
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Short Book - SH
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Audience Notes |
Contains descriptions of sex.
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Contains violence.
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Contains strong language.
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Male narrator.
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LC Subject |
Miwok Indians - Biography
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Miwok Indians - Social conditions
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Downloadable books
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Nonfiction
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Biograhies
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Talking books
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Call Number |
979.45004974
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Language |
English
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Released |
2000
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Publication Info |
Sacramento, CA : Braille and Talking Book Library, California State Library, 2000
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2000. 0826322379 (cloth : alk paper 9780826322371
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