Our California Indians : corrected carbon copy of typescript, [ca. 1890s?].

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Our California Indians : corrected carbon copy of typescript, [ca. 1890s?].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509315

Bidwell reminisces about the Native American Maidu people living on her husband's ranch, known as Rancho Chico, where Bidwell came to live in 1868. She describes their customs and living conditions, and provides details concerning food and medicine preparation, house construction and arrangement, death rituals, hunting practices, and dances and ceremonies. She also mentions her efforts to educate and convert them to Christianity. Includes a dictation transcribed from an interview with a Maidu man regarding courtship and marriage customs.

20 leaves.

California historical society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6741839

California historical society

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Bidwell, Annie E. Kennedy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6350404 (person)

Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell, born in Meadville, PA, June 30, 1839, was the daughter of Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy of Washington, D.C. She married John Bidwell on April 16, 1868 and came to Rancho Chico, Butte County. She was a philanthropist and civic leader, especially interested in the Indians, church affairs, temperance movements, and women suffrage. She died in Chico on March 9, 1918. From the description of Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell Collection, 1842-1918. (California S...