We Are Not Animals
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We Are Not Animals

Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

  1. 576 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

We Are Not Animals

Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

About this book

Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award
Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title


By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century. Between 1770 and 1900 the linguistically and culturally diverse Ohlone and Yokuts tribes adapted to and expressed themselves politically and culturally through three distinct colonial encounters with Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In We Are Not Animals Martin Rizzo-Martinez traces tribal, familial, and kinship networks through the missions’ chancery registry records to reveal stories of individuals and families and shows how ethnic and tribal differences and politics shaped strategies of survival within the diverse population that came to live at Mission Santa Cruz.

We Are Not Animals illuminates the stories of Indigenous individuals and families to reveal how Indigenous politics informed each of their choices within a context of immense loss and violent disruption.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. First Were Taken the Children, and Then the Parents Followed
  12. 2. The Diverse Nations within the Mission
  13. 3. The Mission of Padre Killers
  14. 4. Chief Malimin (Coleto) and the Rise of the Yokuts
  15. 5. Not Finding Anything Else to Appropriate
  16. 6. Genocide and American Fantasies of Ancient Indians
  17. 7. They Won’t Try to Kill You If They Think You’re Already Dead
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. About Martin Rizzo-Martinez
  23. Illustrations
  24. Tables