Review: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California, by Tsim D. Schneider

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Book Review| August 01 2022 Review: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California, by Tsim D. Schneider Tsim D. Schneider. The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 216 pp. Paperback $30.00. Terri A. Castaneda Terri A. Castaneda TERRI A. CASTANEDA is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Sacramento, and the author of Marie Mason Potts: The Lettered Life of a California Indian Activist (2020). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (3): 66–68. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.3.66 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Terri A. Castaneda; Review: The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California, by Tsim D. Schneider. California History 1 August 2022; 99 (3): 66–68. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.3.66 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search At long last, a narrative of colonial California populated with intelligent and culturally resourceful Indigenous people has arrived. Replete with earthquakes, shipwrecks, and Coast Miwok salvaging copper hulls and timber frames from hulking maritime vessels washed up on their foggy shores, it is certainly a page-turner. The book opens dramatically in 1783 as a young couple, Julúio and Olomojoia, with their six-year-old daughter in tow, strike out in a tule balsa to investigate the Spanish colonial settlement across the bay from their homeland in present-day Sausalito. They would repeat this crossing many times in the coming year as they ascertained how best to secure their family’s future in a rapidly changing world. Two centuries later, Tsim D. Schneider, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, embarked on a journey not unlike that of his Coast Miwok forebears. For two decades, he has traversed his ancestral homelands... You do not currently have access to this content.