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Saint or Villain? The Complicated Story of Saint Francis' Next Saint (Audio, 7:17)

Native Americans Debate: Father Serra, Saint or Sinner?

Activists topple statue of Junipero Serra in Downtown Los Angeles (Video, 1:07)

Backlash against America's first Hispanic saint (Video, 2:39)

Firing Line with William F. Buckley: Saint or Sinner: Junipero Serra (Video: 29 min, 25 sec)

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Junipero Serra: Saint or sinner? BBC (Video, 2:38)
Misionaries and Native Americans (Video, 2:48) by Alejandro Morales from Inner Borderlines: Visions of America Through the Eyes of Alejandro Morales. Available from Films On Demand, Skyline Library Collection
Junipero Serra & California Missions (Video Segment 25, 2:00) from The People: The West, a film by Stephen Ives available from Films On Demand, Skyline Library Collection

Native Peoples and Junipero Serra

The Worlds of Junipero Serra: Chapter 8. Junípero Serra’s Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias by Steven W. Hackel (Editor) et al.
ISBN: 9780520295391
Publication Date: 2018-02-23
Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary by Rose Marie Beebe; Robert M. Senkewicz
ISBN: 9780806148687
Publication Date: 2015-02-16

Native Reflections on the News of Junipero Serra’s Canonization by Deborah Miranda (Esselen/Chumash), Nicole Meyers-Lim (Pomo), & Vincent Medina (Ohlone). News from Native California, Jan 23, 2015.
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Native American leaders press for monument to replace Junipero Serra statue by John Fensterwald. EdSource, Jul 14, 2021.
California plans to replace a toppled statue with a monument to Native Americans by Ed Fletcher. CapRadio News: NPR, October 1, 2021.
'How Do We Heal?' Toppling the Myth of Junípero Serra by Carly Severn. KQED, Jul 7, 2020.
It's complicated: One Native Californian's thoughts on Junipero Serra's canonization by Olivia Chilcote. Berkeley News, Sept 21, 2015.
We have a story to tell: Indigenous scholars, activists speak up amid toppling of Serra statues by Alejandra Molina. RNS, Jul 7, 2020.
A Saint’s Sins: In California, protesters have toppled statues of Junipero Serra, whose missions brutalized Native Americans. How should we think of him now? by Elizabeth Bruenig. NYT, Aug 16, 2020.
Activists Tore Down A Statue Of Junipero Serra In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter by Gina Pollack. LAist, Jun 20, 2020.
Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans by ALan Yuhas. The Guardian, Jan 15, 2015,

Guest, Francis F., and Francis P. Guest. “Junípero Serra and His Approach to the Indians.” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 3, 1985, pp. 223–61. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/41171158
Thomas, David Hurst. “The Life and Times of Fr. Junípero Serra: A Pan-Borderlands Perspective.” The Americas, vol. 71, no. 2, 2014, pp. 185–225. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43189260. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43189260

Native Peoples and the Missions

Indian Voices by Alison Owings
ISBN: 9780813550961
Publication Date: 2011-02-28
Converting California by James A. Sandos
ISBN: 9780300101003
Publication Date: 2004-05-11
Voices of the American Indian Experience by James E. Seelye Jr. (Editor); Steven Alden Littleton (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313381164
Publication Date: 2012-11-30
Lands of Promise and Despair by Rose Marie Beebe (Editor); Robert M. Senkewicz (Editor)
ISBN: 9781890771485
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Colonial Rosary by Alison Lake
ISBN: 9780804010856
Publication Date: 2006-06-12

Missions & Tribes: Including Native Perspectives in the Historical Record by the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association. Mar 15, 2021.
The Truth Shall Set Us Free by Vincent Medina. News from Native California. 2014, Skyline Library Collection.
The dark, terrible secret of California's missions By Elias Castillo. SFGate, Nov 8, 2004.

Arkush, Brooke S. “Native Responses to European Intrusion: Cultural Persistence and Agency among Mission Neophytes in Spanish Colonial Northern California.” Historical Archaeology, vol. 45, no. 4, 2011, pp. 62–90. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23345185
Garr, Daniel J. “Power and Priorities: Church-State Boundary Disputes in Spanish California.” California History, vol. 57, no. 4, 1978, pp. 364–75. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/25157872. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25157872
Guest, Francic, F. “An Examination of the Thesis of S. F. Cook on the Forced Conversion of Indians in the California Missions.” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 1, 1979, pp. 1–77. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/41170811. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41170811
Ramirez, Renya K., and Valentin Lopez. "Valentin Lopez, Healing, and Decolonization: Contesting Mission Bells, El Camino Real, and California Governor Newsom." Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 2.3 (2020): 91-8. ProQuest.
Sandos, James A. “Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848.” California History, vol. 76, no. 2/3, 1997, pp. 196–229. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/25161667. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161667
Skowronek, Russell K. “Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California." Ethnohistory, vol. 45, no. 4, 1998, pp. 675–708. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/483300. Accessed 27 Sept. 2023. https://www.jstor.org/stable/483300

Junipero Serra

The Worlds of Junipero Serra by Steven W. Hackel (Editor) et al.
ISBN: 9780520295391
Publication Date: 2018-02-23
Junipero Jose Serra by Whiting, Jim, 1943-
ISBN: 9781584151876
Publication Date: 2004

Why Are Native Groups Protesting Catholicism’s Newest Saint? by Erin Blakemore. The Smithsonian Magazine, Sept 23, 2015.
Serra's legacy complicated by practices, conflicts of his time from Catholic News Service. America: The Jesuit Review, July 29, 2015.
Junipero Serra: saint or not? by Thomas Reese. National Catholic Reporter, May 15, 2015.
Junipero Serra was a brutal colonialist. So why did Pope Francis just make him a saint? by Dara Lind. Vox, Sep 24, 2015

Black, Charlene Villaseñor. "Rethinking Mission Studies." Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 2.3 (2020): 3-7. ProQuest.
Galindo, David Rex. "Franciscanos e Indios En La Alta California Española, 1769-1822/Grey Friars and Indians in the Spanish Upper California, 1769-1822." Espacio, Tiempo y Forma.20 (2007): 157-70. ProQuest.
Gonzalez, Michael. "The Enduring Flame: Stress, Epigenetics, and the California Indian 1769–2000." American Indian Quarterly 46.4 (2022): 299-322. ProQuest.
Pineda, Baron L. "“First Hispanic Pope, First Hispanic Saint”: Whiteness, Founding Fathers and the Canonization of Friar Junípero Serra." Latino Studies 16.3 (2018): 286-309. ProQuest.
Welizarowicz, Grzegorz. "Junípero Serra's Canonization Or Eurocentric Heteronomy." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, suppl.Special issue on Native American indigenous studies. 53 (2018): 267-94. ProQuest.

Native Americans : CA Native Peoples and Junipero Serra

Junipero Serra: Savior or Villain? Critiques and criticisms of the role he and other missionaries played in the abuse and domination of native peoples