Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians

Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians
Author: Kimberly Johnston-Dodds
Publisher: California Research Bureau
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.

Somebody's Children

Somebody's Children
Author: Laura Briggs
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0822351617

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.