Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California

Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California by Phillips, George Harwood. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520027190.

FIRST EDITION(dated title page). 1975 University of California Press hardcover, George Harwood Phillips (Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849). Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with non-Indians intruding into their territories. Although historian George Harwood Phillips did not shy away from chronicling the mistreatment of Indians, he moved beyond that approach to examine Indian-white interactions from both Indian and white perspectives. This new edition describes the indigenous cultures of southern California and offers a detailed history of the repercussions of Euro-American colonization. - Amazon