In 2015, Pope Francis elevated Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra to sainthood, reinforcing the association between the California missions and the founding of Euroamerican colonies in western North America. Yet the canonization also leaves this discourse, and its associated narrative of indigenous decline, open to critique. Here, I examine two developments that effectively recast the California missions as distinctly indigenous places that embody both struggle and perseverance. First, Serra’s canonization offers a platform for Native Californians to raise concerns about the historical and continuing impacts of the mission system. Second, the canonization coincides with new archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations of indigenous l...
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Padres Descontentos: Spanish Colonial Policy, ...
California historical discourse routinely centers Europeans and represents Indians as primitive remn...
Spanish missions are seen by many indigenous people and scholars alike as sites of profound loss. Ac...
The article assesses the recent canonization of Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary and fo...
The article assesses the recent canonization of Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary and fo...
Spanish missions that dot the landscape in California today exist as centers of historical interpret...
Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential...
In 2015, Roman Catholic Pope Francis canonized eighteenth-century Franciscan Friar Junípero Serra, f...
When the Mexican-born Franciscan priests arrived at several missions in Alta California in 1933, the...
For a long period beginning in the nineteenth century, historians of California generally characteri...
Mission Santa Catalina was founded on the margins of the Spanish colonial frontier in northern Baja ...
Mission Santa Catalina was founded on the margins of the Spanish colonial frontier in northern Baja ...
The Alta California missions have been at the center of the historiography of Spanish California for...
Rather than simply an arena for Euroamerican domination, recent archaeological research on Spanish m...
This dissertation aims to place California Indian agency and artistry at the forefront of California...
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Padres Descontentos: Spanish Colonial Policy, ...
California historical discourse routinely centers Europeans and represents Indians as primitive remn...
Spanish missions are seen by many indigenous people and scholars alike as sites of profound loss. Ac...
The article assesses the recent canonization of Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary and fo...
The article assesses the recent canonization of Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary and fo...
Spanish missions that dot the landscape in California today exist as centers of historical interpret...
Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential...
In 2015, Roman Catholic Pope Francis canonized eighteenth-century Franciscan Friar Junípero Serra, f...
When the Mexican-born Franciscan priests arrived at several missions in Alta California in 1933, the...
For a long period beginning in the nineteenth century, historians of California generally characteri...
Mission Santa Catalina was founded on the margins of the Spanish colonial frontier in northern Baja ...
Mission Santa Catalina was founded on the margins of the Spanish colonial frontier in northern Baja ...
The Alta California missions have been at the center of the historiography of Spanish California for...
Rather than simply an arena for Euroamerican domination, recent archaeological research on Spanish m...
This dissertation aims to place California Indian agency and artistry at the forefront of California...
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Padres Descontentos: Spanish Colonial Policy, ...
California historical discourse routinely centers Europeans and represents Indians as primitive remn...
Spanish missions are seen by many indigenous people and scholars alike as sites of profound loss. Ac...