Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2020
Publisher
University of California Press
Abstract
California’s Franciscan missions were grounded in Indigenous homelands that to this day remain largely undertheorized and trivialized by scholarly and popular understandings of missions as inescapable fortresses of confinement. Narratives that position California’s missions as places of Indigenous imprisonment endure but they are at odds with a growing body of archaeological and documentary evidence demonstrating the persistence of Native lives, activities, and decision-making taking place within and beyond the walls of missions. We argue that interpretations of the missions in scholarly and popular conversation must make Indigenous persistence and resilient relationships to meaningful landscapes the cardinal priorities, not secondary attributes, in the study of Indigenous responses to colonization.
Recommended Citation
Schneider, T. D., Schneider, K., & Panich, L. M. (2020). Scaling Invisible WallsReasserting Indigenous Persistence in Mission-Era California. The Public Historian, 42(4), 97–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2020.42.4.97
Comments
Published as Schneider, T. D., Schneider, K., & Panich, L. M. (2020). Scaling Invisible Walls Reasserting Indigenous Persistence in Mission-Era California. The Public Historian, 42(4), 97–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2020.42.4.97. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the National Council on Public History for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center.