We are the land : a history of Native California / Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr.
"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 peop...
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Oakland, California :
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[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A people of the land, a land for the people : Yuma
- Beach encounters : indigenous people and the age of exploration, 1540-1769 : San Diego
- "Our country before the Fernandino arrived was a forest" : native towns and Spanish missions in colonial California, 1769-1810 : Rome
- Working the land : entrepreneurial Indians and the markets of power, 1811-1849 : Sacramento
- "The white man would spoil everything" : indigenous people and the California gold rush, 1846-1873 : Ukiah
- Working for land: rancherias, reservations, and labor, 1870-1904 : Ishi Wilderness
- Friends and enemies : reframing progress, and fighting for sovereignty, 1905-1928 : Riverside
- Becoming the Indians of California : reorganization and justice, 1928-1954 : Los Angeles
- Reoccupying California : resistance and reclaiming the land, 1953-1985 : Berkeley and the East Bay
- Returning to the land : sovereignty, self-determination and revitalization since
- Conclusion : returns.