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

Bookmakers and Land-takers: the Making of a Gold Rush Daughter

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Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Anthropology Department

Education

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