Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California

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, Luise o, 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.

Author: Lisbeth Haas
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/09/2013
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780520280625
ISBN10: 0520280628
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Architecture | History | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies

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).