Introduction: The California mosaic -- California's first languages -- Part I: California languages at work and play: Four portraits -- Song: Overcoming the language barrier -- Coyote talk -- Upriver, downriver: The vocabulary of direction -- Language and the structure of thought -- Part II: Language and history -- What language can tell us about history -- Native Californian names on the land -- History through the words brought to California by the Fort Ross Colony / by Robert L. Oswalt -- Part III: Words -- California counting -- Specialized vocabulary in the languages of native California -- "Slapping with the mouth" and other interesting words: Instrumental prefixes in Kashaya -- Language and social structure -- Songs without words -- Part IV: Language and dominion -- On the origin of California tribal names -- A pine nut by any other name -- Languages under attack / with Vera Mae Frederickson -- Part V: Writing and documenting the California languages -- Ashes, ashes: John Peabody Harrington, then and now -- Writing systems -- Part VI: New speakers carry the torch -- Rebuilding the fire: The advocates of indigenous California language survival -- Stories of language reclamation -- In our own words: Writings in the languages of California.
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