Indians, missionaries, and merchants
Subtitle: the legacy of colonial encounters on the California frontiers
By: Kent G. Lightfoot
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Franciscans -- Missions -- California -- History; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- California; Indians of North America -- Missions -- California -- History; Indians of North America -- Commerce -- California -- History; Federally recognized Indian tribes -- California; Federal aid to Indians -- California; United States -- Politics and government; United States -- Social policy; United States -- Race relations
Description: "California's earliest European colonists - Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries - depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This book brings together disparate skeins of the past - including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations - to present a new view of how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. Kent Lightfoot's work, which incorporates the holistic methods of historical anthropology, explores the surprising ramifications of these long-ago encounters for the present-day political status of native people in California."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-318) and index
Table of contents: title: Dimensions and consequences of colonial encounters; title: Visions of precolonial native California; title: Franciscan missions in Alta California; title: Native agency in the Franciscan missions; title: Russian merchants in California; title: Native agency in the Ross Colony; title: Missionary and mercantile colonies in California; title: The aftermath; title: Conclusion