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Akins, Damon B.; Bauer, William J.

 
9780520280496: We Are the Land: A History of Native California
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ISBN 10 : 0520280490 ISBN 13 : 9780520280496
Editeur : University of California Press, 2021

Synopsis

“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”―Kirkus Reviews
 
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.

Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood―paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.

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À propos de l'auteur

William J. Bauer, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Damon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520280490
ISBN 13 
9780520280496
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
377
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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