| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. By Kent G. Lightfoot. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xviii, 338 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-520-20824-2.)

Kent G. Lightfoot poses the problem of the lack of reservation land, with a small exception, along a 540-kilometer stretch of the California coast, an area that had one of the densest populations in North America prior to 1769 when Spanish colonization began. Why did the Digueño and Luiseño groups and the Kashaya Pomo receive federal recognition while thousands of descendants similarly subjected to the Spanish colonial systems remain unrecognized? To answer this he compares the southern and northern Spanish missions to the Russian trading colony at Fort Ross, focusing on "how the dominance structures of missionaries and merchants were mediated in practice by native peoples" (p. 20). He also examines how anthropological constructs of California Indianness contributed to determining who would become federally recognized in the twentieth century.

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