Book of Donmon Teith

Lightfoot examines the interactions between Native American communities in California & the earliest colonial settlements, those of Russian pioneers & Francisca

California’s earliest European colonists—Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries—depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain t

"Relevant, timely, and approachable, California Indians and Their Environment is an instant classic that should be invaluable for anyone interested in Californi

A readable and succinct account of how Indians fared under their Spanish Franciscan colonizers.