Anyone who goes looking into California mission stories that were written decades ago is likely to come upon some language that’s jarring, if not downright offensive, words such as “savage ...

Galvan, a Catholic who was hired by church leaders to do this half-time job in 2003, is the only descendant of California mission neophytes in such a position. His job, he likes to say ...

Learn about the impact Spanish colonization had on the First Peoples. Find out why California’s Missions are romanticized during the late 1800s and why the Indigenous People’s history is ...