Historians, past and present, assumed that the Nisenan Indians of the northern Sierra foothills—living at the epicenter of the California gold rush—had been exterminated. Not so.
Why—and how— the Nevada City Indian community survived into the twentieth century is noteworthy, for Nevada City was no remote hinterland, but rather a place squarely in the path of “progress” in its most virulent form: environmentally destructive, industrial mining.
Based upon archival research and offering new thoughts, new images, and new information, this study is primarily aimed at returning the Nisenan experience to local knowledge.
Publisher - Two Quail Press (184 pp.)
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Sample Page from NCN, Ch. 2
Catching Salmon, Yuba River, 1851-52, by H.B. Brown
Nevada City Lode Mines and Indian Reservation, 1897
Manzanita Diggings
An Indian Woman Pounding Acorns and Seeds
Rose, the Indian Captive
Woman Using a Hopper Mortar, 1851-52, by H.B. Brown
California Quail
Nevada City Nisenan Book cover