The Shasta Indians of California and Their Neighbors
Product Description
by Elizabeth Renfro
This informative and sensitively-written book tells the history of the Shastan contact with white civilization and much of what has been learned about their original culture. Among other things, Shastan origins, community life, subsistence activities, crafts, shamanism, mythology and philosophy, ceremonies, and family and community customs and laws are explained.
The four Shastan tribes, like other California Indian groups, lived in relative peace with their neighbors for untold generations until the white people arrived and disrupted their way of life, reducing their numbers drastically. Although crushed materially, their spirit did not die. Today’s Shasta Nation includes more than 1200 members consisting of descendants from the four original Shastan tribes.
This informative and sensitively-written book tells the history of the Shastan contact with white civilization and much of what has been learned about their original culture. Among other things, Shastan origins, community life, subsistence activities, crafts, shamanism, mythology and philosophy, ceremonies, and family and community customs and laws are explained.
The four Shastan tribes, like other California Indian groups, lived in relative peace with their neighbors for untold generations until the white people arrived and disrupted their way of life, reducing their numbers drastically. Although crushed materially, their spirit did not die. Today’s Shasta Nation includes more than 1200 members consisting of descendants from the four original Shastan tribes.
