On 11 July 2020, a fire burned most of the interior and the roof of San Gabriel Mission in Los Angeles County. In his Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times, Richard White, an emeritus professor of history at Stanford University, unpacks its complex history and its current significance. Read his account here.
San Gabriel Mission, painted by Ferdinand Deppe in 1832. Note, in the right foreground, a tall grass house, characteristic of the Chumash and Gabrielino Indians, as described by Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton in Native American Architecture.Find the full Season 8 of arcCA DIGEST, on Indigeneity, here.
