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Lädt ... We Are the Land: A History of Native California (2021. Auflage)von Damon B. Akins (Autor), William J. Bauer Jr. (Autor)
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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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The narrative throughout centers native Californians: their understanding of their origins; their experiences of encounters with Europeans and explanations of their behavior compared to how it was seen by the Europeans; the missions, Mexican rule, the Gold Rush, and the work toward marginalization; the attempt to recover land and to maintain integrity as native Californians.
The story is powerful because of its perspective and very helpful. Understanding why the native Californians responded as they did to Europeans was quite insightful and does well at showing the distance between what Europeans perceived versus what the natives were actually about.
We have finally reached the point of understanding that there is great wisdom and insight from Native people and their traditions. Very worthwhile. ( )