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Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.

Indians of North America --- Indians, Treatment of --- Missions, Spanish --- Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Ethnic identity. --- Land tenure --- History. --- Missions --- Government relations --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Race identity --- California --- History --- Christian church history --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Antigua California --- 1824. --- 1826. --- 1848. --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- american history. --- california. --- chumash war. --- chumash. --- colonial missions. --- colonialism. --- cultural history. --- cultural iconography. --- historians. --- indigenous authority. --- indigenous histories. --- indigenous identities. --- indigenous memory. --- indigenous peoples. --- indigenous rights. --- indigenous societies. --- land rights. --- luiseno. --- mexican history. --- mexican nation. --- mexicans. --- mexico. --- mission painting. --- native emancipation. --- social history. --- yokuts.