Pestilence and persistence
Subtitle: Yosemite Indian demography and culture in colonial California
By: Kathleen L. Hull.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780520258471
Subjects: Miwok Indians -- Colonization; Miwok Indians -- Diseases; Miwok Indians -- History; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- California -- Yosemite Valley; Epidemics -- California -- Yosemite Valley -- History; Communicable diseases -- California -- Yosemite Valley -- History; Ethnoarchaeology -- California -- Yosemite Valley; Human remains (Archaeology) -- California -- Yosemite Valley; Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775,; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- History; Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disentangling colonial encounters; title: Multiple perspectives on a critical time; title: Colonial encounters in Yosemite Valley; title: The people of Awahnee; title: Peopling the past; title: A tradition of survival : archaeological evidence for Awahnichi depopulation; title: Daily practices in a changing world; title: Hol'-low and he-le'-jah : cultural continuity and change; title: The colonial experience : epidemic disease and cultural outcomes elsewhere in North America; title: Culture, history, and colonialism.