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Lizzie Enos was a Maidu Indian woman who lived her entire 87 years on the ancestral land in the Sierra foothills of northern California. She followed the traditional ways of basket-making and preparing foods from "ooti", the bitter acorn that supplied the daily sustenance. Lizzie's hands were young when she first learned to separate the acorn kernel from its shell; they were the last to grow old at the grinding rock. When she died in 1968, the customs and crafts evolved through a thousand Maidu summers disappeared from everyday life. The distinctive heritage of the Maidu Indian, as it was known and lived by Lizzie Enos, is preserved in the pages of this book. It is told in the language of mythology and in Lizzie's own words; Richard Simpson's dramatic photography interprets both.

Lizzie Enos was a Maidu Indian woman who lived her entire 87 years on the ancestral land in the Sierra foothills of northern California. She followed the traditional ways of basket-making and preparing foods from "ooti", the bitter acorn that supplied the daily sustenance. Lizzie's hands were young when she first learned to separate the acorn kernel from its shell; they were the last to grow old at the grinding rock. When she died in 1968, the customs and crafts evolved through a thousand Maidu summers disappeared from everyday life. The distinctive heritage of the Maidu Indian, as it was known and lived by Lizzie Enos, is preserved in the pages of this book. It is told in the language of mythology and in Lizzie's own words; Richard Simpson's dramatic photography interprets both.