Native American Consultations and Ethnographic Assessment: The Paiutes and Shoshones of Owens Valley, California
Van Horn LF. 1995. Native American Consultations and Ethnographic Assessment: The Paiutes and Shoshones of Owens Valley, California. Denver, Colorado
The first part reports on the consultations with the American Indian peoples of the Owens Valley conducted during June and July of 1994 in relation to their concerns with planning for Manzanar National Historic Site, California. The second part constitutes an ethnographic assessment involving the Owens Valley Paiutes and Shoshones. It discusses possible ethnographic resources within the park and other historical and contemporary Indian links to the Manzanar site during the three periods Manzanar commemoratesaboriginal times before European contact; the fruit-orchard town of Manzanar, circa 1905 to 1935; and the Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1942 to 1945.