“Bringing Them under Subjection”: California’s Tejon Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864

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The final book in a three-volume history of California’s Native peoples, “Bringing Them under Subjection” chronicles the advance and demise of the state’s first permanent reservation, the Sebastian Military Reserve, better referred to as the Tejón Reservation. George Harwood Phillips explains how local Native peoples were instrumental within the initial success of the reservation and how the institution used to be undermined by squatters and a Native policy emphasizing caution over innovation. For the reason that scope of the have a look at encompasses a number of the San Joaquin Valley in central California, events related to but unfolding beyond the reservation are also given considerable attention, in particular the founding and functioning of quasi reservations {referred to as|called} “Indian farms,” the resistance offered by Native peoples within the southern valley, the degradation they underwent within the gold fields, and the survival in their progeny to the current.

Drawing upon Native oral testimony and the accounts of state and federal officials, military officers, newspaper reporters, settlers, miners, and ranchers, Phillips provides a detailed and balanced account of a volatile period in California history.

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