Description: Alta California is a screenplay.During the turbulent and violent California mission era, an Indigenous young man is forced into Christianity and service as a mission guard. He must now choose between allegiance to his tribe or to Spain and the Christian Church. His decision will cost either his identity or his life. Multiple national and international award winner.
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The questioning of the Mission Era and the “good Padre Serra’s” effect upon the demise of the native Americans of California was, until recently, the province of historians. That is, thankfully, changing.
In 1851, California’s first Governor, Peter Burnett, told the Legislature to expect war “until the Indian race becomes extinct.”
Recounting California's dark history with respect to its indigenous peoples, Governot Gavin Newsom on Tuesday issued an apology in front of a group of Native American tribal leaders on behalf of the state for a history of repression and violence.