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Native Alienation
Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions
Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions
Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region’s Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still largely presents...
ISBN: 9780295753270
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Refusing Settler Domesticity
Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers
In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor...
ISBN: 9780295753003
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Unrecognized in California
Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States
With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United...
ISBN: 9780295752846
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Settler Cannabis
From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous...
ISBN: 9780295751566
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A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices...
ISBN: 9780295749525
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We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
“I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.” So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy’s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women’s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At...
ISBN: 9780295743448
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Power in the Telling
Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era
From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already operated a lucrative casino...
ISBN: 9780295743363
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Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of...
ISBN: 9780295990460
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