Auberry Branch Library

"The California Indian Library Collections (CILC) contains archived sound recordings, photographs, and textual materials (such as books, journal articles, unpublished manuscripts and field notes, many of which were gathered by Berkeley researchers in the early years of this century), these have been duplicated and installed in twenty-one northern and central California libraries... The Library Heritage Center has special censuses of California Indians for 1907-1915, 1928 and 1933, along with microfilmed records of the Sherman Institute (Riverside, California), an Indian educational facility; and the Finding Guide to the California Indian Library Collections (vols. 1-8, with 3 vols. devoted to Fresno County). Fresno County's major tribal groups, during the prehistoric period and today, are the Yokuts and Monache (Mono). Some of the more useful online resources for the groups are listed below. The Room also has copies of the major printed references to Native Americans in Fresno County, including: Frank F. Latta's Handbook of Yokuts Indians (Exexter/Salinas: Brewer's Historical Press/Coyote Press, 1999); A.L. Kroeber's Handbook of the Indians of California (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925); and the Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 8, California, edited by Robert F. Heizer (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978). Links to other historical and genealogical resources available online are also provided on the library website." See website for details on accessing collections.