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The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences

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The 35th Anniversary of a Heyday Classic with a new cover and a few up to date material

Here, in their very own words, indigenous voices reclaim the narrative of California Indians. Before contact, California’s Native people comprised five hundred independent tribal groups whose cultural and linguistic multiplicity expressed a sense of incalculable human richness. Reflecting that diversity, this selection of personal histories, songs, chants, and stories draws together a range of experiences from all the way through the state and across generations to reveal the continuous Native presence in what is now referred to as the Golden State. Speakers share traditional knowledge such as rites of passage, coyote tales, and dream journeys, and in equal measure they address the devastation that arrived with white people and the challenges that exist to this present day-in addition to the remarkable revitalization of their cultures during the last thirty years in particular. Variously funny, painful, insightful, and strikingly beautiful, The Way We Lived presents California’s original sense of itself. This up to date reissue comprises a new foreword by Michael Connolly Miskwish (Campo Kumeyaay Nation) and a new introduction from the editor, Malcolm Margolin.

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