Indian survival on the California frontier / Albert L. Hurtado.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Yale Western Americana series ; 35Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1988Copyright date: ©1988Description: xix, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300041470
  • 9780300041477
  • 0300047983
  • 9780300047981
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E78.C15 H87 1988
Contents:
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 -- 9. "Between Two Grizzlies' Paws": Indian Women in the 1850s -- 10. Uncertain Refuge: The Household and Indian Survival in 1860 -- Conclusion
Summary: Looks at the Indians who survived the invasion of white settlers during the nineteenth century and integrated their lives into white society while managing to maintain their own culture
Item type: PRINT
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.

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 -- 9. "Between Two Grizzlies' Paws": Indian Women in the 1850s -- 10. Uncertain Refuge: The Household and Indian Survival in 1860 -- Conclusion

Looks at the Indians who survived the invasion of white settlers during the nineteenth century and integrated their lives into white society while managing to maintain their own culture

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