History Talk: Los Altos in 1775-76: What it looked like, and who lived on this land?

Los Altos DAR Chapter invites community members to join us for a talk by Professor Michael Wilcox entitled "Los Altos in 1775-76: What it looked like, and who lived on this land?" As we begin celebrations of America's 250th birthday, we're reminded of events that happened Back East along the Atlantic seaboard. But what was happening here in Los Altos in 1775-1776? What was the area like? Who lived here? How did these people interact with communities around them?

Michael Wilcox is an Indigenous/Native American scholar (Yuman descent) who has taught at Stanford University since 2001. His dissertation, entitled "The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Communities of Resistance, Ethnic Conflict and Alliance Formation Among Upper Rio Grande Pueblos," articulates the social consequences of subordination, and explores the processes of boundary maintenance at both regional and communal levels. During his graduate studies at Harvard, he was very involved in strengthening the Harvard University Native American Program and in designing and teaching award-winning courses in Native American Studies. The author of numerous publications, Professor Wilcox's main research interests include Native American ethnohistory in the American Southwest; the history of Pueblo Peoples in New Mexico; Indigenous Archaeology; ethnic identity and conflict; DNA, race and cultural identity in archaeology and popular culture; and the political and historical relationships between Native Americans, anthropologists and archaeologists.