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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

This War is For a Whole Life [Culture of Resistance] (4 pages)

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for example, is oversimplified. A great number of Southern California Indian reservations were allotted by the turn of the century; when the push to allot the remaining reservations began after 1917, the Bureau wanted to reassign allotments to the already allotted reservations, a divisive action that split people into Federation and anti-Federation camps. Such flaws in this otherwise solid book call for further research. Thanks to the work of Heather Ponchetti Daly (2013), a more nuanced reconstruction of the Federation is emerging. What remains debatable is whether the Federation represented a majority will in Southern California after 1935. Current research suggests that political activists among Southern California Indians were generally anti-Bureau and anti-IRA until the mid-1930s, with the Federation strongest in specific communities; to the extent that it held together a constituency, it was due to the organization’s promise to secure a positive settlement in the California Claims case. Factionalism arguably was the norm at midcentury, as many became disaffected by the Federationists' right-wing leanings and the persistent charges of embezzlement. The Great Depression muted criticism of the Bureau as federal paternalism was needed, and not just by Indians. A highly problematic question remains: when did the idea become dominant that the reservation land bases should be preserved? New methodologies will need to be devised to better assess political allegiances and their causes. This book is a good addition to the library of anyone seriously interested in Southern California Indian history. Search for it on the Uskana Press website. The photo of William Pablo hamming it up as a Keystone cop (p. 62) is alone worth the price of the . book. Reference Daly, Heather Ponchetti 2013 American Indian Freedom Controversy: Politics and Social Activism by Southern California Mission Indians, 1934-1958. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.