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Chiefs and Challengers - Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769-1906 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Chiefs and Challengers - Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769-1906 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of
California, " Chiefs and Challengers, " when it first appeared,
overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a
complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with
one another as much as they did with non-Indians intruding into
their territories. Although historian George Harwood Phillips did
not shy away from chronicling the mistreatment of Indians, he moved
beyond that approach to examine Indian-white interactions from both
Indian and white perspectives. This new edition describes the
indigenous cultures of southern California and offers a detailed
history of the repercussions of Euro-American colonization.
Because there was no geographical frontier in California separating
Indians and whites, the interaction varied significantly from
region to region in California. In the south, conflict reached a
climax in 1851 when Antonio Garra led a pan-Indian revolt that sent
shock waves throughout California, forcing the Americans to take
counteractions that affected themselves as much as the Indians.
In this second edition of "Chiefs and Challengers, " Phillips
brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent
historical and anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used
documentary evidence. After 1865, Indians faced new problems,
including settler encroachment and the imposition of the
reservation system. That some Indians succeeded in holding onto
their ancestral lands, Phillips shows, is evidence of their
strategic efforts to survive. His narrative includes numerous
eloquent testimonies from Indians, among them a student at a
government-run school who wrote to the U.S. president: "The white
people call San Jacinto rancho their land and I don't want them to
do it. We think it is ours, for God gave it to us first."
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