Martin Rizzo-Martinez

We Are Not Animals

Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238757
• ISBN-10: 1496238753
• Artikelnr.: 69833602

Autorenporträt

Martin Rizzo-Martinez is an assistant professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Amah Mutsun Tribal Chair Valentin Lopez
Introduction
Chapter 1: “First were taken the children, and then the parents followed”
Chapter 2: “The diverse nations within the mission”
Chapter 3: “We are not animals”
Chapter 4: Captain Coleto and the Rise of the Yokuts
Chapter 5: “Not finding anything else to appropriate . . . ”
Chapter 6: Genocide and American fantasies of ancient Indians
Chapter 7: “They won’t try to kill you if they think you’re already dead”
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index