Understanding Tolowa Histories : Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses

Understanding Tolowa Histories develops a multi-leveled historical inquiry of the Native Tolowa of Northwestern California.

The Tolowa were displaced and nearly destroyed in the nineteenth century.

Presenting a wide ranging analysis of ethnographic, linguistic and historical materials, James Collins explores the linguistic and political dynamics of place-claiming and expropriation as well as the relation between otherness and subjugation.