Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers

by Kent G. Lightfoot

Book Overview

California's earliest European colonists--Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries--depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past--including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations--to present a vivid new view of how native cultures fared under these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249984
• ISBN13: 9780520249981
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"