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California Frontier
The novel Indian Survival on the California Frontier by Albert Hurtado focuses on the story of how the native American Indians have survived from the catastrophe of living in a desperate time during the nineteenth century where a lot of societal problems such as starvation, diseases, and crimes hunt the Indian population. Hurtado portrayed in the novel a lot of challenges that the native Indians of California had faced to survived from the devastations during the middle of nineteenth century.
Within the novel, the cultures and perspectives of the California Indians were revealed in that despite of their problems from the society's treatment, specifically that of the white Americans, they still emerged as strong people who did not let their status in society become just victims of the rapaciousness of the white Americans (Yalepress Online). Instead, they also played the role of becoming influences in the American history.
The main point of Albert Hurtado upon writing the novel is perhaps to awaken the society, especially the Western culture of the California race, to become sensitive on the roles that the native American Indians have contributed to the nation as well as how important they have become in the development of California in history. Moreover, aside from focusing on the California Indians, Hurtado perhaps wants the readers to learn from the problems that was brought about by racial and gender discriminations.
In gender, the novel Indian Survival on the California Frontier is not just a story of how the native American Indian survived in the middle of nineteenth century but a story of how the society faces problems because of misconceptions and discriminations that they practice to other groups of people.
Reference
Indian Survival on the California Frontier.
Retrieved on November 10, 2005, from Online.
Web site: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300041470
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