We Are not Animals - 9781496238757

We Are not AnimalsIndigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California\nAuthor(s): Martin Rizzo-Martinez, Valentin Lopez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496238757, 978-1496238757\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award\n Named a 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\n\n By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived through the nineteenth century. Between 1770 and 1900 the linguistically and culturally diverse Ohlone and Yokuts tribes adapted to and expressed themselves politically and culturally through three distinct colonial encounters with Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In We Are Not Animals Martin .