Native Americans of Riverside County

by Clifford Trafzer, Jeffrey Smith

Overview

The Colorado Desert lands that became Riverside County in the 19th century were home to diverse bands of California Indian people, including the Cahuilla, Gabrielino, Serrano, Luise-o, Chemehuevi, and Mojave tribes. Other Native Americans call the county home, including urban Indians who moved here in the 20th century. The tribes of Riverside County are survivors, descendants of sovereign people who left their mark on the county's history eons before the first European explorers entered the land. These historic photographs depicting the tribes and their way of life were culled from the authors' personal archives as well as the collections of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Museum, Twenty-nine Palms Tribe, Riverside Municipal Museum, and the University of California, Riverside.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738546858
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/15/2006
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,079,437
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Author Clifford Trafzer, a professor of American Indian history at UCR, has written books including Native Universe, Renegade Tribe, Death Stalks the Yakama, and Chemehuevi People. Jeffrey Smith, a history instructor at California State University, San Bernardino and San Bernardino Valley College, has written Made Beings, a history of the Cary Collection of Native American artifacts owned by the Cabazon and Twenty-nine Palms tribes.

Table of Contents

Preface     6
Introduction     7
Native People and Places     9
Native American Homes     39
Native Americans at Work     49
Native American Education     75
Tribal Sovereignty     97
Contemporary Life     107
Acknowledgments     126
Bibliography     127