Christine’s Reviews > The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, and Songs & Reminiscences > Status Update
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Shock and horrified to learn 1850’s California law allowed the slavery of California indigenous peoples if a white landowner stated they were vagrants. I don’t recall learning this in school at all. I remember to some extent the distancing of California from unjust laws of the south and the acts of Spanish missionaries. Disappointed to discover the level of sanitation of Californian white immigrants and laws.
— Jul 06, 2024 12:28PM
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Christine
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I really like that individuals’ recounting of their lives, poems, songs, and myths are all in a larger font, while a broad summary and description (e.g., the elements from said story that apply to just that one tribe, all tribes in California, other insights, etc.) is in a smaller font and in short chunks.
It really gives the feeling of oral traditions and valuing the interviewees’ own words and accounts.
— Jul 05, 2024 01:32PM
It really gives the feeling of oral traditions and valuing the interviewees’ own words and accounts.
Christine
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It’s so great to learn about the individual differences and similarities in practices between tribes in Northern California. I’ve been slow to read this (really true for any non-fiction for me compared to fiction) but it’s a fascinating read. Getting to see early 1900’s photography of people and structures like the round house really make it real.
— Jul 05, 2024 12:28PM
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Yah we might be progressive now but it wasn’t always like that. I don’t know if you remember but a few years ago there was a big push to take down statues and/or change names of anything deemed racist and one of the first things they wanted gone was the Christopher Columbus statue in our capitol building. After a bunch of statues in Golden Gate Park were destroyed by demonstrators SF took them down permanently and have been putting art installations in instead. Then in Sacramento, they removed the John Sutter statue due to the request of Native Americans even though Sutter founded the Sutter’s Fort trading center in California which eventually became Sacramento. I remember studying him extensively in school here but I don’t remember any mention of him enslaving hundreds of Native Americans as part of his business but he did all of that. Columbus was taken down due to genocide of Native Americans as was the Junipero Serra statue.
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I was so glad when those got taken down, I can’t imagine having to see something like that all the time reminding you of slavery and slaughter. But exactly the sanitation of what we learned in school about the extent of our area’s involvement and cruelty is so frustrating.
