Damon B Akins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6442930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damon B Akins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damon B |
| FAMILY NAME | Akins |
| SIGNATURE | AKINS D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guilford College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Conversation with William F. Deverell, Damon B. Akins, and William J. Bauer Jr., about We Are the Land
Research Article| August 01 2021 A Conversation with William F. Deverell, Damon B. Akins, and William J. Bauer Jr., about We Are the Land: A History of Native California William F. Deverell, William F. Deverell William F. Deverell is director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at the University of Southern California. He recently published Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation (Los Ang…
We Are the Land
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of Californi…
Reservations, Removal, and Reform
A Chemehuevi Song
In this thoughtful and well-researched work, culminating decades of involvement with the Twenty-Nine Palms Tribe, Clifford E. Trafzer offers what he calls a “historical song-story . . . of the Twenty-Nine Palms Tribe of Chemehuevi . . . one song about one group of Chemehuevi Southern Paiute people who once lived at the Oasis of Mara in the modern-day town of Twentynine Palms, California” (xvi). His description illustrates the challenges of tellin…
Pestilence and Persistence
We Are the Land
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of Californi…
Pestilence and Persistence
A Chemehuevi Song
In this thoughtful and well-researched work, culminating decades of involvement with the Twenty-Nine Palms Tribe, Clifford E. Trafzer offers what he calls a “historical song-story . . . of the Twenty-Nine Palms Tribe of Chemehuevi . . . one song about one group of Chemehuevi Southern Paiute people who once lived at the Oasis of Mara in the modern-day town of Twentynine Palms, California” (xvi). His description illustrates the challenges of tellin…
Reservations, Removal, and Reform
A Conversation with William F. Deverell, Damon B. Akins, and William J. Bauer Jr., about We Are the Land
Research Article| August 01 2021 A Conversation with William F. Deverell, Damon B. Akins, and William J. Bauer Jr., about We Are the Land: A History of Native California William F. Deverell, William F. Deverell William F. Deverell is director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at the University of Southern California. He recently published Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation (Los Ang…
We Are the Land
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of Californi…
Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Political science (2 works)