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Sneider, Leah – American Indian Quarterly, 2012
Arming themselves with "manifest destiny" rhetoric, which claimed divine Anglo-Saxon superiority as justification for the conquest of Indigenous and Mexican peoples and the land they occupied, white settlers forcefully pushed into California territory. The two-year-long Mexican-American War resulted in the acquisition of the present-day…
Descriptors: United States History, Tribes, Autobiographies, American Indians
Sauer, Carl – 1975
Written to provide a view of the American landscape as it was before the European colonization, this book consists of 14 units which provide portraits of the American Indian tribes who occupied the land, on a bio-regional basis. The units are about the: basket makers of California, gatherers of desert and mountain, fishers of the streams, boat…
Descriptors: American History, American Indians, Area Studies, Cultural Awareness