The ongoing exploration of Kern County's Indigenous past continues this week with a presentation at Beale Memorial Library.

Part one. Sovereignty and the Yokuts tribes -- Introduction -- Early Yokuts strategies to protect land and sovereignty in central California -- Part two. United States v. Whaley (1888): tribal ...

With the beginning of Spanish colonization in 1769, the lives of the Indians of California changed drastically. The Spanish mission system, established along the Pacific Coast, required that local ...