TY - BOOK ID - 78339253 TI - California through Native eyes PY - 2016 SN - 0295806699 9780295806693 9780295998343 0295998342 9780295998350 0295998350 PB - Seattle DB - UniCat KW - Indians, Treatment of KW - Indians of North America KW - Indian mythology KW - Paiute Indians KW - Pomo Indians KW - Konkow Indians KW - Indians KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - First Nations (North America) KW - Indians of the United States KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Native Americans KW - North American Indians KW - Mythology, Indian KW - Mythology KW - Pah-Ute Indians KW - Piute Indians KW - Numic Indians KW - Kulanapan Indians KW - Concow Indians KW - Concow Maidu Indians KW - Kojo:mk'awi Indians KW - Konkow Maidu Indians KW - Northwestern Maidu Indians KW - Maidu Indians KW - Wars. KW - Folklore. KW - History. KW - Government relations KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Religion and mythology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78339253 AB - "Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer seeks to correct that oversight through an approach that tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Using oral histories of Concow, Pomo, and Paiute workers, taken as part of a New Deal federal works project, Bauer reveals how Native peoples have experienced and interpreted the history of the land we now call California. Combining these oral histories with creation myths and other oral traditions, he demonstrates the importance of sacred landscapes and animals and other nonhuman actors to the formation of place and identity. He also examines tribal stories of ancestors who prophesized the coming of white settlers and uses their recollections of the California Indian Wars to counteract popular narratives that downplay Native resistance. The result challenges the "California story" and enriches it with new voices and important points of view."--Provided by publisher. ER -