Saints and citizens : Indigenous histories of colonial missions and Mexican California / Lisbeth Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haas, Lisbeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--California--History.

Indians of North America--Missions--California--History.

Indians, Treatment of--California.

Indians, Treatment of.

Missions, Spanish--California--History.

Missions, Spanish.

California--History--To 1846.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Maps and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Saints and Indigenous Citizens

1. Colonial Settlements on Indigenous Land

2. Becoming Indian in Colonial California

3. The Politics of the Image

4. "All the Horses Are in the Possession of the Indians": The Chumash War

5. "We Solicit Our Freedom": Citizenship and the Patria

6. Indigenous Landowners and Native Ingenuity on the Borderlands of Northern Mexico

Conclusion: Indigenous Archives and Knowledge

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013).

ISBN:

9780520280625

0520280628

9780520956742

0520956745

OCLC:

862049800