We Are the Land: A History of Native California Pekuakamiulnuatsh and finally within grasp of

and finally within grasp of a professional career

clever Rabbit outsmarts a selfish Great Snapping Turtle

She knows joy

this book is a testimony to the ability of one individual to change the course of history through hard work

documented here in extraordinary detail

We Are the Land: A History of Native California Pekuakamiulnuatsh and finally within grasp ofRewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its