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"The Chumash World at European Contact is a major achievement that will be required reading and a fundamental reference in a variety of disciplines for years to

As Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson, University of California, Riverside in The Journal of California Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (WINTER 1975), pp. 241-244:A chi

Who are the Chumash? In this text readers will discover the traditional beliefs and customs of the Chumash Indians of California. Understanding how the landscap

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

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