Many mission buildings now include both parish churches and museums and are popular tourist attractions. National Museum of American History Picture postcard, "Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, ...

Home College of Arts and Sciences Community Heritage Lab Ohlone Heritage Hub What is the role of Mission Santa Clara in Ohlone history? Santa Clara University is one of the few institutions of higher ...

Santa Clara University, the oldest college in California, is also the only college in the state to be the successor of a Spanish mission. The history of both institutions is intimately bound up with ...

“When things predominantly get named after Spanish people that were involved in the Spanish colonization of California and the mission system, that is implanting the narrative across the landscape, ...

But for California State University, Humboldt professor and California Hoopa Valley Tribe member Cutcha Risling Baldy, the history shared by the missions is a “sanitized” story of what was done to ...