Californian Indian Nights
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During the first decades of the twentieth century the University of California became renowned for its department of anthropology. Although scholars contributed to many fields of anthropological science, the department was best known for studies of California Indians. While Alfred Kroeber guided these developments, a host of colleagues and students joined him to make California Indians the most thoroughly studied native people in North America.

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During the first decades of the twentieth century the University of California became renowned for its department of anthropology. Although scholars contributed to many fields of anthropological science, the department was best known for studies of California Indians. While Alfred Kroeber guided these developments, a host of colleagues and students joined him to make California Indians the most thoroughly studied native people in North America.
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The compilers, Edward W. Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Block, were both associated with the University of California, Berkeley, Gifford as a professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of Anthropology and Block as an editor in the Department of Anthropology. Albert L. Hurtado, who provided an introduction for this edition, is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University and the author of Indian Survival on the California Borderland Frontier, 1819-60 (1988), winner of the Ray A. Billington Prize for American frontier history.