Expertise

Much of my work relates to 20th century California Indian land claims, the Federated Indians of California, and Mountain Maidu activist Marie Mason Potts (1895-1978), but I have also begun a new book project about the colonial imaginaries settlers brought to the San Francisco Bay area, and to their interactions with Mountain Maidu people and lands.

WORKING TITLE

Book Worlds, Print Culture, and Settler Colonial Ambitions in the Bay Area and Beyond: Literary Sensibilities and Mountain Maidu Land Dispossession, 1850-1920

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Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Anthropology Department

Education

Anthropology
BA, Texas A & M University
Cultural Anthropology
PhD, Rice University