This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the relig

A Cross of Thorns reexamines a chapter of California history that has been largely forgotten -- the enslavement of California's Indian population by Spanish mis

A readable and succinct account of how Indians fared under their Spanish Franciscan colonizers.

Studies of the Spanish conquest in the Americas traditionally have explained European-Indian encounters in terms of such factors as geography, timing, and the c