steve: elizabeth haas is a professor of history. at uc santa cruz. let's talk about your book and your presentation here. what did you tell your peers? elizabeth: we had a panel on californian indian history. what i said was that we are looking at the new dimensions of it. i began by saying how californian historians used to keep the kind of history that were no -- known and alive in indian communities -- they were not interested in those histories. they kept those histories outside of the stories they told. steve: why? elizabeth: they used the written record and the spanish record. most of the soldiers and settlers there were not from spain. came frompaniards different regions of spain. there was nothing called indians here. it was a very densely inhabited territory of many native peoples , extremely multilingual in california, hundreds of people who existed for centuries to a millennium before the spanish came. as historians, we are only interested in the written record. they left his communities without history and dylan that their history was not

steve: elizabeth haas is a professor of history. at uc santa cruz. let's talk about your book and your presentation here