Author

Publication

2014 - University of California Press, California

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC305.8970794
  • LCCE78.C15 H225 2014

Description

"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."--Back cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Saints and citizens: indigenous histories of colonial missions and Mexican CaliforniaUniversity of California Press2014-01-01

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