Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

by Yve Chavez

Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial rule

Between 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma and San Diego. In Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture, Gabrieleno Tongva scholar Yve Chavez highlights how these communities preserved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295753587
• ISBN13: 9780295753584
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher