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Saints and Citizens - by Lisbeth Haas (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c. 1840 (UC Press, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 (UC Press, 1995).
  • 272 Pages
  • History, United States

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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.



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"Lisbeth Haas tells a new, deeper history of Indians and colonists in California. Listening closely to the voices of native leaders, artisans, painters, and translators who labored in Spanish missions, she uncovers previously obscured places and forms of indigenous power in a brutal world of conquest, exploitation, and loss. Thinking broadly, she shows how Spanish and Mexican California were an integral part of a larger hemispheric story of colonial expansion, indigenous resistance, and contested borderlands. A vastly important book." --Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The Comanche Empire

"Told with rare feeling as well as erudition, Saints and Citizens places native peoples squarely into the precarious history of freedom and survival, both as subjects and agents. The sweep and specificity of this book are impressive: this is a major work by a leading scholar."
--William B. Taylor, Muriel McKevitt Sonne Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

"Lisbeth Haas powerfully illuminates how Spanish missions became functioning parts of the indigenous geography of California, as native peoples like the Chumash and Luiseños transformed them into sacred and political spaces for their own practices, beliefs, authority, and historical narration. Particular compelling is the depiction of native artisanship, translation, writing, and oral history in creating an 'indigenous archive' essential to understanding the story of colonial California." --Juliana Barr, author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

"Building on the historical traditions of the northern Mexican borderlands, Saints and Citizens offers a model of comparative ethnohistory that emphasizes the creation of indigenous colonial spaces and historical narration. Lisbeth Haas blends archival sources with imagery, dance, and ethnography to demonstrate the indigenous production of knowledge in ways that complicate the concepts of indigeneity, subjecthood, and citizenship in both the colonial and Mexican eras of California history." --Cynthia Radding, author of Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic

"'Indigenous Histories'--the first words in the subtitle of Lisbeth Haas's book--might, in other hands, indicate a collection of material about Indigenous populations. Instead, Haas turns the phrase into a verb, privileging Indian voices, art, music, stories, and testimonies as acts of sovereignty that will be heard, no matter how buried. Still we rise!" --Deborah A. Miranda, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir



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"Creative insights into the complex world of Indian and colonial relations that all students of American history should value."--Albert L. Hurtado "American Historical Review" (2/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)

"Effectively succeeds in giving voice and vision to the indigenous histories of early California."-- "CHOICE" (8/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)



About the Author



Lisbeth Haas is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c. 1840 (UC Press, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 (UC Press, 1995).
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Lisbeth Haas
Language: English
Street Date: November 9, 2013
TCIN: 82956173
UPC: 9780520280625
Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-1810
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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