Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research "on" to Research "with, for, and by" Indigenous Peoples.

However, Heizer (1978, 14-15) declares an end to the old-style ethnography and an uncertain future for cultural anthropology because of the passing of the older generation of California Indians. Many California tribes in this body of early anthropological literature are described as being extinct, especially those along the coast of California under the influence of the Spanish missions (Field 1999; Kroeber and Heizer 1970; Panich 2013). US Government officials in the land-claims cases from 1946 to 1959 use Kroeber's (1925) I Handbook of the Indians of California i and other early anthropological works that are viewed as definitive research on California Indian peoples despite insufficiencies and outsider perspectives (Shipek 1989). I am the only California Indian tenure-track professor on campus - maybe the only one in Berkeley's history so far - and one of only eight California Indian tenure-track professors in the entire UC system. [Extracted from the article]