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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790800103321

Autore

Haas Lisbeth

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-520-28062-8

0-520-95674-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

305.8970794

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Ethnic identity

Indians of North America - Land tenure - California - History

Indians of North America - Missions - California - History

Indians, Treatment of - California

Missions, Spanish - California - History

California History To 1846

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.