We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 - Couverture rigide

Jr., William J. Bauer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080783338X ISBN 13 : 9780807833384

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book deals with survival and the resistance to assimilation. The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing Native American history and labor history, William Bauer Jr. chronicles the evolution of work, community, and tribal identity among the Round Valley Indians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that enabled their survival and resistance to assimilation. Drawing on oral history interviews, Bauer brings Round Valley Indian voices to the forefront in a narrative that traces their adaptations to shifting social and economic realities, first within unfree labor systems, including outright slavery and debt peonage, and later as wage laborers within the agricultural workforce. Despite the allotment of the reservation, federal land policies, and the Great Depression, Round Valley Indians innovatively used work and economic change to their advantage in order to survive and persist in the twentieth century. ""We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here"" relates their history for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. (Wailacki and Concow) is an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes. He is assistant professor of American Indian history at the University of Wyoming.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080783338X
• ISBN 13: 9780807833384
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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