Title: Indians, missionaries, and merchants
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Commerce, Federal aid to Indians, Federally recognized Indian tribes, First contact with Europeans, Franciscans, History, Indians of North America, Missions, Politics and government, Race relations, Social policy, Franciscans, missions, Indians of north america, first contact with europeans, Indians of north america, missions, Indians of north america, commerce, United states, politics and government, United states, social policy, United states, race relations, First contact with other peoples
Places: California, United States
LC classification: E78.C15 L47 2005