Lisbeth Haas

Lisbeth Haas is a Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written three books on Indigenous California, all of which place Native knowledge and political ideas to the foreground of colonial history. Her first book, Conquests and Historical Identities in California (1995), examined the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras in two places and how Indigenous, Mexican, Anglo, and European immigrants defined their histories and sets of...See more

Lisbeth Haas is a Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written three books on Indigenous California, all of which place Native knowledge and political ideas to the foreground of colonial history. Her first book, Conquests and Historical Identities in California (1995), examined the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras in two places and how Indigenous, Mexican, Anglo, and European immigrants defined their histories and sets of rights through conflict and settlement. More recently, in Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar writing on Luiseño History and Grammar (2011), she examines the history of Pablo Tac, born at Mission San Luis Rey in 1821, on the land of his father's tribe, and the manuscript he wrote in Rome; Tac's writing reveals how Luiseños understood and survived a drastic colonization. Her book Saints and Citizens (2014) similarly works from Native sources and colonial and national archives to render the significance of tribal history in California under Spain, Mexico, and the United States. She is currently co-editing the book Indigenous Archives (University of Nebraska Press) and cooperating with tribal Chair Valentin Lopez on his book concerning Amah Mutsun history. See less