Nurses, show girls, housewives, farm workers, casino managers, and government inspectors—together these hard-working members of society contributed to the dev

The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849,

A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.

This edited volume takes stories from the "modern West" of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present--explicitly tracing continuity