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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Technical Abstract Bulletin
Lost Laborers in Colonial California
Author: Stephen W. Silliman
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical time for California Indians, as many were drawn into labor pools for the flourishing ranchos following the 1834 dismantlement of the mission system, but they are practically absent from the documentary record and from popular histories. This study focuses on Rancho Petaluma north of San Francisco Bay, a large livestock, agricultural, and manufacturing operation on which several hundredÑperhaps as many as two thousandÑNative Americans worked as field hands, cowboys, artisans, cooks, and servants. One of the largest ranchos in the region, it was owned from 1834 to 1857 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, one of the most prominent political figures of Mexican California. While historians have studied Vallejo, few have considered the Native Americans he controlled, so we know little of what their lives were like or how they adjusted to the colonial labor regime. Because VallejoÕs Petaluma Adobe is now a state historic park and one of the most well-protected rancho sites in California, this site offers unparalleled opportunities to investigate nineteenth-century rancho life via archaeology. Using the Vallejo rancho as a case study, Stephen Silliman examines this California rancho with a particular eye toward Native American participation. Through the archaeological recordÑtools and implements, containers, beads, bone and shell artifacts, food remainsÑhe reconstructs the daily practices of Native peoples at Rancho Petaluma and the labor relations that structured indigenous participation in and experience of rancho life. This research enables him to expose the multi-ethnic nature of colonialism, counterbalancing popular misconceptions of Native Americans as either non-participants in the ranchos or passive workers with little to contribute to history. Lost Laborers in Colonial California draws on archaeological data, material studies, and archival research, and meshes them with theoretical issues of labor, gender, and social practice to examine not only how colonial worlds controlled indigenous peoples and practices but also how Native Americans lived through and often resisted those impositions. The book fills a gap in the regional archaeological and historical literature as it makes a unique contribution to colonial and contact-period studies in the Spanish/Mexican borderlands and beyond.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816528042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical time for California Indians, as many were drawn into labor pools for the flourishing ranchos following the 1834 dismantlement of the mission system, but they are practically absent from the documentary record and from popular histories. This study focuses on Rancho Petaluma north of San Francisco Bay, a large livestock, agricultural, and manufacturing operation on which several hundredÑperhaps as many as two thousandÑNative Americans worked as field hands, cowboys, artisans, cooks, and servants. One of the largest ranchos in the region, it was owned from 1834 to 1857 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, one of the most prominent political figures of Mexican California. While historians have studied Vallejo, few have considered the Native Americans he controlled, so we know little of what their lives were like or how they adjusted to the colonial labor regime. Because VallejoÕs Petaluma Adobe is now a state historic park and one of the most well-protected rancho sites in California, this site offers unparalleled opportunities to investigate nineteenth-century rancho life via archaeology. Using the Vallejo rancho as a case study, Stephen Silliman examines this California rancho with a particular eye toward Native American participation. Through the archaeological recordÑtools and implements, containers, beads, bone and shell artifacts, food remainsÑhe reconstructs the daily practices of Native peoples at Rancho Petaluma and the labor relations that structured indigenous participation in and experience of rancho life. This research enables him to expose the multi-ethnic nature of colonialism, counterbalancing popular misconceptions of Native Americans as either non-participants in the ranchos or passive workers with little to contribute to history. Lost Laborers in Colonial California draws on archaeological data, material studies, and archival research, and meshes them with theoretical issues of labor, gender, and social practice to examine not only how colonial worlds controlled indigenous peoples and practices but also how Native Americans lived through and often resisted those impositions. The book fills a gap in the regional archaeological and historical literature as it makes a unique contribution to colonial and contact-period studies in the Spanish/Mexican borderlands and beyond.
Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas
Author: Robin Grossinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520269101
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Annotation How has California's landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? This book explores these questions by taking readers on a dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley from the early 1800s onward - a forgotten land of brilliant wildflower fields, lush wetlands, and grand oak savannas.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520269101
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Annotation How has California's landscape changed? What did now-familiar places look like during prior centuries? This book explores these questions by taking readers on a dazzling visual tour of Napa Valley from the early 1800s onward - a forgotten land of brilliant wildflower fields, lush wetlands, and grand oak savannas.
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There Grows a Green Tree
Author: Greg White
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Papers assembled in this volume, prepared by a wide assortment of Dave Fredrickson's friends, colleagues and students, deal with a comparably broad range of topics, issues and conceptual concerns in California Archaeology. Testifying in a very real sense to the tremendous influence Dave Fredrickson has had on several generations of California anthropologists.Contributing Authors: M Basgall, J Bennyhoff, R Brooks, S Brooks, B Gerow, GL Gmoser, JF Hayes, WR Hildebrandt, JJ Johnson, TL Jones, TS Keter, RF King, M Kowta, H McCarthy, CW Meighan, P Mikkelson, R Milliken, TM Origer, J Parker, EB Parkman, A Praetzellis, M Praetzellis, LM Raab, FA Riddell, KJ Tremaine, SA Waechter, WJ Wallace, LE Weigel, GJ West, G White, CKR Wickstrom
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Papers assembled in this volume, prepared by a wide assortment of Dave Fredrickson's friends, colleagues and students, deal with a comparably broad range of topics, issues and conceptual concerns in California Archaeology. Testifying in a very real sense to the tremendous influence Dave Fredrickson has had on several generations of California anthropologists.Contributing Authors: M Basgall, J Bennyhoff, R Brooks, S Brooks, B Gerow, GL Gmoser, JF Hayes, WR Hildebrandt, JJ Johnson, TL Jones, TS Keter, RF King, M Kowta, H McCarthy, CW Meighan, P Mikkelson, R Milliken, TM Origer, J Parker, EB Parkman, A Praetzellis, M Praetzellis, LM Raab, FA Riddell, KJ Tremaine, SA Waechter, WJ Wallace, LE Weigel, GJ West, G White, CKR Wickstrom
Colonial Worlds, Indigenous Practices
Author: Stephen Walter Silliman
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Ecology, Assemblage Structure, Distribution, and Status of Fishes in Streams Tributary to the San Francisco Estuary, California
Author: Robert Alfred Leidy
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Category : Freshwater fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Category : Freshwater fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Current Directions in California Obsidian Studies
Author: Richard Edward Hughes
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Category : Archaeological dating
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Publisher:
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Category : Archaeological dating
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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