By UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper
Over the summer, I drove from Truckee (which is on Washoe/Northern Paiute Land) down the Central Valley (which is land of multiple native peoples including Miwok and Yokuts people) to Los Angeles, Chumash and Tongva land. I couldn’t help apprec...
We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive book of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, the book recounts the centrality of the Native presen...