Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants

Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants

The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers

by Kent G. Lightfoot

338 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780520208247
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Annotation An ethnohistorical and archaeological examination of the contrasting Native American colonial experience in California under Franciscan mission and Russian mercantile regimes, which had different impacts on Indian cultural integrity and eventual political recognition by the federal government.

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