Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 7:00 P.M.
"The Fight for Indian Sovereignty: A Study of Change and Resistance for Southern California Indians."
Retired History professor Richard A. Hanks, a former archivist in the Inland Empire (Riverside Local History Resource Center and A. K. Smiley Library’s Lincoln Memorial Shrine) currently teaches and has written numerous articles on local history, as well as on Abraham Lincoln and Native Americans. His presentation will focus on his book This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance Among Southern California Indians, 1850-1866, which was published in 2012. In 2023 he released the second edition. New information has been added to certain key figures in the book