First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians

When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002, they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Crisscrossing the state, they taped hundreds of hours of interviews and collected copies of nearly fifteen hundred family photos. The documentary project, funded by the California State Library and LEF Foundation, paints an unprecedented portrait of California's indigenous people using their own words and photographs from their own family albums. In turns moody, beautiful, warm, and humorous, First Families is a one-of-a-kind book that combines extremely personal images with text that gives readers a broader, deeper view of Indian history and many complex living cultures.

Author: L. Frank Manriquez
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 11/01/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781597140133
ISBN10: 1597140139
BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Subjects & Themes | Portraits & Selfies
- Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies