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"Bringing Them under Subjection": California's Tejón Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852–1864. By George Harwood Phillips. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xvii + 369 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95.)

      This is the third and final volume in Phillips's series on Indians in central California and their interactions with Spanish, Mexican, and especially American colonizers. In this volume, Phillips describes the establishment and early years of California's first reservation, the Sebastian Military Reserve (commonly called the Tejón Reservation), and to a lesser degree, a number of "Indian farms" in the San Joaquin Valley. To allow this volume to stand on its own, Phillips first describes the Native peoples of the southern San Joaquin Valley and summarizes a number of chapters from the earlier volumes dealing with events in the late 1840s and early 1850s. 1
      As with the previous volumes (Indians and Intruders in Central California, Norman, 1993; Indians and Indian Agents, Norman, 1997) and his earliest work on California Indian history (Chiefs and Challengers, Berkeley, 1975), Phillips has again performed an invaluable service in digging out detailed information, primarily from traditional historical sources, about specific incidents and Indian groups. . . .

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