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Native Alienation
2024
Overview
Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish
missions Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the
California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation
of the region's Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history,
however, still largely presents a romanticized portrait of the
creation of the twenty-one Spanish missions between San Diego and
Sonoma in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Providing a corrective to this benign historiography, Charles A.
Sepulveda reconstructs the violence toward Native people as well
the resistance and refusals of his ancestors and other Native
people during and after the Spanish genocide. The conquest enforced
the attempted spiritual possession of Native souls and the physical
position of Native bodies and the land. At the same time, it
strengthened the Spanish view of California's Indigenous people as
disposable. Sepulveda demonstrates how enslavement was a key method
of conquest, putting to rest the myth of the Spanish as benevolent
and beneficial. Centering the experiences of Native peoples,
Sepulveda brings to light the gendered dimensions of the conquest
and genocide. His fuller history confronts the erasure of Indian
individuality and resistance and historicizes the relationship
between enslavement, dispossession, and environmental degradation.
He also illuminates the mission system's central role in destroying
Indigenous people's relationships to the land while examining the
practice's centuries-long impact on the lives of Native people. A
groundbreaking reconsideration, Native Alienation
transforms our understanding of California Indian history.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Subject
ISBN
9780295753263, 0295753269, 9780295753270, 0295753277, 0295753285, 9780295753287
