Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers

Name: Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers
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ISBN: 9780520249981

ISBN-10: 0520249984

ISBN-13: 9780520249981

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kent Lightfoot

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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 richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past--including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations--to present a vivid new view of how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. Kent Lightfoot's innovative 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…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 355
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Dimensions and Consequences of Colonial Encounters



Visions of Precolonial Native California



Franciscan Missions in Alta California



Native Agency in the Franciscan Missions



Russian Merchants in California



Native Agency in the Ross Colony



Missionary, and Mercantile Colonies in California: The Implications



The Aftermath



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index