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1988 – 1989: George Harwood Phillips

George Harwood Phillips graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1973 with a Ph.D. in American History. Before teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1977-1995, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, California State University Fullerton, and University of the West Indies. He has served as an expert witness for the Soboba Band of Mission Indians. He has published articles in Ethnohistory, Journal of California Anthropology, and Pacific Historical Review.

Selected Publications

1973 Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California: The Garra Uprising and its Aftermath. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
1975 Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1981 The Enduring Struggle: Indians in California History. San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser. Reprinted in 1990 by Material for Today’s Learning, Sparks, Nevada.
1993 Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1997 Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-1852. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
In Press Experiment in Subjugation: California’s Tejon Indian Reservation, 1852-1864. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

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