| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

*Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers.* By Kent G. Lightfoot. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvii + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)
Kent Lightfoot has written a most important book regarding the impact of Spanish/Mexican and Russian Imperial economic imperialism on the California Indians. This work provides readers with new methodologies, and modern scholarship that updates Adele Ogden's 1941 book, The California Sea Otter Trade, 1784–1848 (Berkeley) and Robert Archibald's late twentieth-century works on Indian labor in the California Mission system.	1
Lightfoot's earlier archeological scholarship at the Russian outpost at Ross is the foundation of this work. However, here he attempts to go beyond the Russian-California Indian interface and conceptualize a statewide impact of other colonial economies for his readers. He largely succeeds in this endeavor.	2
Lightfoot seeks to explain how Native American entanglements with colonial economic institutions transformed tribal organization, cultural practices, and Indian identities. In a methodology he describes as holistic, diachronic, and multidimensional, he examines factors such as enculturation, relocation, social mobility, labor, inter-ethnic unions, demography, and chronology. This work is one of the finest examples of the post-Kroeberian scholarship begun by A. L. Kroeber's brilliant and prolific student, Robert F. Heizer.	. . .

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