In this episode, we interview the authors of We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Below are their bios and a link to the book:
William J. Bauer, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Damon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
In this episode, we meet Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, an important early resident of Santa Monica.
We explore in this episode how the first people arrived to California.
In this episode, we prepare for the arrival permanent settlements in California by looking at the events leading up to the Portola Expedition.