We Are the Land : A History of Native California (PB) Cherokee men and women both complicated

men and women both complicated and contradictory

This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters—and growing and thriving through this reconnection

Sita MacMillan is a registered member of Zagime Anishinabek and is of a mixed Cree and Scottish background

by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes

river walks

We Are the Land : A History of Native California (PB) Cherokee men and women both complicatedWilliam J. Bauer, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Damon B. Akins is Professor of History at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Before there was such a thing as California, there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did