Abalone tales: collaborative explorations of sovereignty and identity in Native California

Abstract

About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Abalone? The Making of a Collaborative Research Project 1 I. Artifact, Narrative, Genocide 1. The Old Abalone Necklaces and the Possibility of a Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Patrimony 9 2. Abalone Woman Attends the Wiyot Reawakening 50 II. The Meaning of Abalone: Two Different Abalone Projects 3. Florence Silvia and the Legacy of John Boston: Responsibility at the Intersection of Friendship and Ethnography 62 4. Reflections on the Iridescent One 84 III. Cultural Revivification and the Species Extinction 5. Cultural Revivification in the Hoopa Valley 109 6. Extinction Narratives and Pristine Moments: Evaluating the Decline of Abalone 137 Conclusion: Horizons of Collaborative Research 161 Notes 173 Bibliography 179 Index 193