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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."
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to
change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew
became apparent to the public at large - the man had two musical
personas - one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote
highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented
each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and
classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky
(1903-1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family,
discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople,
and pursued his budding interest to New York before his passion for
classical music drew him to Paris, where the impresario Serge
Diaghilev hired him to compose a ballet for the Ballets Russes.
Taking a Chance on Love immerses us in Duke's dizzying
globe-hopping and genre-swapping, as financial concerns and musical
passions drive him from composing symphonies to writing songs, from
brilliant successes to Broadway flops, and from performing with
classical performers to writing books and articles. Throughout, as
he crisscrosses the landscape of American music, collaborating with
lyricists such as Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, and Sammy Cohn, the
incomparable Vernon Duke emerges clearly from these pages:
sometimes charming, sometimes infuriating, always entertaining.
Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards
with such songs as ""Taking a Chance on Love,"" ""I Can't Get
Started,"" and ""April in Paris,"" little is known about the
composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the
intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight,
restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook
and to the story of twentieth-century music.
Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los
Angeles region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold:
California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time
Native contributions to early Southern California. Opening with a
survey of the economic dimension of traditional southern California
Indian cultures, Phillips then examines the origins and collapse of
the missions, the emergence and expansion of the pueblo of Los
Angeles, and the creation and decline of the ranchos. He closely
considers the Indians' incorporation into these foreign-imposed
institutions and the resulting impact on the region's economy and
society. While concentrating on the Tongvas (Gabrielinos), Phillips
also considers Indians who entered the region from the south.Based
on exhaustive research, Phillips's account focuses on California
Indians more as workers than as victims. He describes the work they
performed and how their relations evolved with the missionaries,
settlers, and rancheros who employed them. Phillips emphasizes the
importance of Indian labor in shaping the economic history of what
is now Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties. Featuring more
than two-dozen illustrations and maps, Vineyards and Vaqueros
demonstrates that no history of the region is complete without a
consideration of the Indian contribution.
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