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A Coalition of Lineages is an important and robust study highlighting the continuity of the unrecognized Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, the genealogical caretakers of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys and the surrounding areas. They should be recognized and given back their land, as should their unrecognized relatives and neighbors, the Chumash, Acjachemen, and Tongva/Gabrielino nations. Yet, despite Champagne and Goldberg's argument that federal recognition is a step toward remedying the harm of colonialism (16), the sovereignty promised through recognition does not dismantle the oppressive colonial, racist, and patriarchal structure of the state."–Charles Sepulveda,
American Indian Culture and Research Journal "Written to dispel the idea that these lineages ever ceased to exist under colonial power, this book offers a conceptual framework around the lineage that can be useful to historians and scholars."–Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California