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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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| Series |
Western Americana ; v. Vol. 35 |
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Western Americana.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Culture and Family on the Borderland Frontier; 2 California's International Frontier, 1819-1846; 3 "Saved so Much as Possible for Labour": New Helvetia's Indian Work Force; 4 Indians in the Service of Manifest Destiny; 5 "Conciliate the Inhabitants": Federal Indian Administration during the Mexican War; 6 A Regional Perspective on Indians in the Gold Rush; 7 "Extermination or Domestication": The Dilemma of California Indian Policy; 8 Indian Labor and Population in the 1850s. |
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9 "Between Two Grizzlies' Paws": Indian Women in the 1850s10 Uncertain Refuge: The Household and Indian Survival in 1860; Conclusion; Sources; Index. |
| Summary |
During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when vast numbers of whites poured into California, the native Indian population was decimated through disease, starvation, homicide, and a declining birth rate. In this prize-winning book, Albert L. Hurtado focuses on the Indians who survived this harrowing time. Hurtado considers the ways in which native life and culture persisted, how the survivors integrated their lives with white society, and how the now-dominant whites related to the Indians living and working with them. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- California -- History.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0300157886 |
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9780300157888 (ebk) |
| Standard No. |
heb00539 hdl |
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