Resources

Statements from California tribes

• 9/22/15 Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians letter to Pope Francis (PDF)
• 10/28/15 Salinan T’rowt’raahl statement from Elders Council responding to an invitation to participate in Serra Sainthood celebration
• The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe’s Position on the Canonization of Junípero Serra (PDF)
• Tataviam Tribe Objects To Canonization of Junipero Serra
• Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation Passes Tribal Resolution Opposing Canonization of Junipero Serra and Calling on Pope Francis to Rescind the Doctrine of Discovery (press release) / full text of resolution
• Kumeyaay Nation elders and leadership speak out against canonization of Junipero Serra / another article
• Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians, Kizh Nation letter to Pope Francis (regarding the canonization)
• Amah Mutsun Letter to Pope Francis Regarding the Canonization of Junipero Serra
• Canonization Fodder: California Indians and the Sainthood of Junipero Serra— by Deborah A. Miranda of the Ohlone Coastanoan Esselen Nation
• Petition: Urge Pope Francis to abandon the canonization of Junipero Serra — 10,900+ signatures — initiated by Toypurina Carac of the Kizh Gabrieleno tribe.
• Another petition: Tell Pope Francis: Junipero Serra is no saint! 5,450+ signatures — initiated by Corrina Gould, Chochenyo Ohlone matriarch
• Petition by Amah Mutsun Tribe: Ask California Governor Jerry Brown to Oppose Canonization of Junipero Serra (875+ signatures)

Recommended reading

Published in 2015

• A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions—by Elias Castillo, Craven Street Books, 2015. Author website | Amazon link
• Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide—by Rupert Costo & Jeanette H. Costo. Indian Historian Press, 1987. WorldCat link | Book review
• Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir—by Deborah A. Miranda. Heyday Books, 2013. Bad Indians website | Publisher page | Amazon link


UC Press, 2013

• Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California—by Lisbeth Haas. University of California Press, 2013. Publisher page | Amazon link
• The New California Mission System: Museums, Gift Shops and Historical Archaeologists (article— a quick, rewarding read)—by Mark Pedelty, 1992. free PDF download
• Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. Yale University Press, 2004. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913—by Richard Street. Stanford University Press, 2004. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians—by Robert H. Jackson & Edward Castillo. University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Amazon link
• Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California—by Albert L. Hurtado, University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Amazon link
• Indian Survival on the California Frontier—by Albert L. Hurtado. Yale University Press, 1990. Publisher page | Book review | Amazon link
• Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush—by Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Richard J. Orsi. University of California Press, 1998. Publisher page | Amazon link
• A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810—by Randall Milliken. Malki-Ballena Press, 1995/2009. Order from publisher | Amazon link
• The Destruction of California Indians—by Robert F. Heizer. Bison Books, 1993. Amazon link
• A Chemehuevi Song: The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe—by Clifford E. Trafzer. University of Washington Press, 2015. Publisher page | Amazon link | WorldCat link
• Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c.1840, including the complete manuscript of Pablo Tac—by Lisbeth Haas. University of California Press, 2011. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936—by Lisbeth Haas. University of California Press, 1996. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation—edited by Steven W. Hackel. University of California Press, 2010. Publisher page | Book review | Amazon link
• Toypurina the Joan of Arc of California—by Ernest P. Salas, Andrew Salas, Christina Swindall Martinez, Gary Stickel. Kizh Tribal Press, 2011. Publisher page | Amazon link
• The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers—by Lynn H. Gamble. University of California Press, 2011. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory—edited by Lee M. Panich; Tsim D. Schneider. University of Arizona Press, 2014. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers—by Kent G. Lightfoot. University of California Press, 2006. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786—by Jean Francois de La Perouse, illustrated by Linda Yamane. Heyday Books 1989. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend—by Betty Goerke. Heyday Books, 2007. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources—by M. Kat Anderson. University of California Press, 2013. Publisher page | Amazon link

Recommended reading: the American period

• Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873—by Brendan C. Lindsay. University of Nebraska Press, 2015 reprint. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Exterminate Them: Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Enslavement of Native Americans during the California Gold Rush—edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Joel R. Hyer. Michigan State University Press, 1999. Publisher page | Amazon link
• An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873—by Benjamin Madley. Yale University Press, 2016. Publisher page
• We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941—by William J. Bauer. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence—by Boyd Cothran. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Publisher page | Amazon link
• Film: Gold, Greed & Genocide— 2003 24-minute documentary produced by California Indian youth. YouTube link | Film website