A subscriber placed a question on the quarterly Ask Tim post about suggested reading materials of the Native American community. I am working on it. The title above is misleading. While it is designated of the California Indians series, volume five pertains to the settlement of Lassen and Modoc Counties.  It should be noted Garland Publishing market was not mainstream in the sense was geared toward academia and libraries. Since I personally knew Davis, who at that time was the director of the California State Archives, he alerted me to its publication.

Davis, of course, devotes a chapter titled Indian Meets White. Davis provides one with some introspection in  a tragic episode of history. He wrote: “The stakes of the contest were high. Retrospection is wide of the mark  it does not note that, although both races were wrong, many times and more, each showed much willingness to work toward justice as it viewed in those days. Each felt its cause was right and each was determined to let nothing stand in the way of the maintenance of that right. The story is one of the head-on collision of two civilizations, and of the unending struggle for survival.”

Tim