A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White\'s California Exposures.
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..
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.
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.
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.
Rather, the lives and legacies of the people Native to the land shaped the creation of California.
Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California.
Before there was such a thing as California, there were the People and the Land. -- Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the History of California as Indigenous.
A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White\'s California Exposures
