Antigone Books

In this well-crafted collaboration, Pilulaw Khus, a  Chumash elder and activist, and Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, a professor of Mexican American and Raza Studies at the University of Arizona, offer an activist Native woman's perspective on California history and Chumash identity. Pilulaw Khus has devoted her life to tribal, environmental, and human rights issues.  With impressive candor and detail, she recounts those struggles here. Readers interested in tribal history will find in her story a spiritual counterpoint to prevailing academic views on the complicated reemergence of a Chumash identity.  Readers interested in environmental studies will find vital eyewitness accounts of movements to safeguard important sites like Painted Rock and San Simeon Point from developers.  Readers interested in indigenous storytelling will find Chumash origin tales and oral history as recounted by a gifted storyteller.  Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, professor of Mexican American and Raza Studies at the University of Arizona,  provides an extensive introductory analysis of Khus's narrative.  Her analysis explores "re-Indianization" and highlights the newly emergent Chumash research of the last decade.  

Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman (Paperback)

By Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, Pilulaw Khus

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780816529797
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Published: University of Arizona Press, 10/2011

In the world of book publishing, this volume from a traditional Chumash woman elder is a first. It puts a 20th (and 21st) century face, name, identity, humanity, personality, and living voice on the term Chumash.

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