First Families - Photographic History of California Indians

Klappentext Cultural Writing. Essays. LETTERS TO THE VALLEY is a book of thoughtful observations from a farmer and award-winning author. From the unique perspective of a farmer on a working farm! Masumoto talks about dealing with change and trying to protect and preserve a way of life. His organic peach farming and his community serve as a backdrop to the "letters" he writes! offering the concerns of a parent! the memories of a son! and the advice of a friend. Now in paperback. Zusammenfassung When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002! they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Crisscrossing the state! they taped hundreds of hours of interviews and collected copies of nearly fifteen hundred family photos. The documentary project! funded by the California State Library and LEF Foundation! paints an unprecedented portrait of California's indigenous people using their own words and photographs from their own family albums. In turns moody! beautiful! warm! and humorous! First Families is a one-of-a-kind book that combines extremely personal images with text that gives readers a broader! deeper view of Indian history and many complex living cultures.

Product details

• Authors: L. Frank, L./ Hogeland Frank, Kim Hoagland, L. Frank Manriquez, David Mas Masumoto
• Publisher: Heyday books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2007
• EAN: 9781597140133
• ISBN: 978-1-59714-013-3
• No. of pages: 283
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 286 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Ethnic Studies, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Photographs: collections, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Relating to Native American people, Photography and photographs, Portraits and self-portraiture in art, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, ART / Indigenous, Relating to Native American people / First Americans