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

"Effectively succeeds in giving voice and vision to the indigenous histories of early California." CHOICE "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

• List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Saints and Indigenous Citizens 1. Colonial Settlements on Indigenous Land 2. Becoming Indian in Colonial California 3. The Politics of the Image 4. "All the Horses Are in the Possession of the Indians": The Chumash War 5. "We Solicit Our Freedom": Citizenship and the Patria 6. Indigenous Landowners and Native Ingenuity on the Borderlands of Northern Mexico Conclusion: Indigenous Archives and Knowledge Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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

"Effectively succeeds in giving voice and vision to the indigenous histories of early California." CHOICE "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

• List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Saints and Indigenous Citizens 1. Colonial Settlements on Indigenous Land 2. Becoming Indian in Colonial California 3. The Politics of the Image 4. "All the Horses Are in the Possession of the Indians": The Chumash War 5. "We Solicit Our Freedom": Citizenship and the Patria 6. Indigenous Landowners and Native Ingenuity on the Borderlands of Northern Mexico Conclusion: Indigenous Archives and Knowledge Appendix Notes Bibliography Index