This week we're going back to 1840s California with the Mask of Zorro! Join us to learn about children in Catholic missions, the truly weird story of a guy named Harry Love and the head of Joaquin Murrieta, the dons of California, and more!

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Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr., We Are the Land: A History of Native California (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021).  Martin Rizzo-Martinez, "First Were Taken the Children, and Then the Parents Followed," We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), : https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv270kv7w.7 . Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, "Junipero Serra's Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias," in The Worlds of Junipero Serra: Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations edited by Steven W. Hackel (University of California Press); https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2050wrm.12 

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