Beschreibung:
Martin Rizzo-Martinez is an assistant professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
We Are Not Animals traces the history of Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz area through the nineteenth century, examining the influence of Native political, social, and cultural values and these people’s varied survival strategies in response to colonial encounters.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword by Amah Mutsun Tribal Chair Valentin Lopez Introduction Chapter 1: “First were taken the children, and then the parents followed” Chapter 2: “The diverse nations within the mission” Chapter 3: “We are not animals” Chapter 4: Captain Coleto and the Rise of the Yokuts Chapter 5: “Not finding anything else to appropriate . . . ” Chapter 6: Genocide and American fantasies of ancient Indians Chapter 7: “They won’t try to kill you if they think you’re already dead” Conclusion Bibliography Index