We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941
William J. Bauer Jr.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2009
Pages: 304
Subject: Social Science, Political Science, History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807895368
DESCRIPTION
Drawing on oral history interviews, Bauer brings Round Valley Indian voices to the forefront in a narrative that traces their adaptations to shifting social and economic realities, first within unfree labor systems, including outright slavery and debt peonage, and later as wage laborers within the agricultural workforce. Despite the allotment of the reservation, federal land policies, and the Great Depression, Round Valley Indians innovatively used work and economic change to their advantage in order to survive and persist in the twentieth century. We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here relates their history for the first time.