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Footnotes
* That writing about groups to which one doesn’t belong is still a source of anxiety in Chicano Studies is reflected in “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California (2007), in which author Linda Heidenreich frets that “[c]ritical works by Indigenous scholars such as Devon Abbot Mihesuah and Greg Sarris . . . problematize any works by non-native scholars” and assures us that in writing about the Napa tribe, she’s “address[ed] these problems” by “engag[ing] in a dialogue with Earl Couey, the Wappo Tribal Consultant, in an attempt to ensure that the stories I see and hear when I look to the Napa region ‘do no harm.’ ” In short, spokespeople for certain groups now vet the work of historians—not to ensure that what they write is true, but to ensure that it “does no harm.”
* Vásquez first tells the Ortiz story in his preface, repeats it on page 86 as if he hasn’t already told it, and returns to it yet again on page 99.