We Are the Land : A History of Native California Game 92 lbs) 170 pages

92 lbs) 170 pages

In The Light We Carry

social policy

contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today

responsibility

We Are the Land : A History of Native California Game 92 lbs) 170 pagesby Damon B. Akins, William J. Bauer Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as California, there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first