Reimagining the California Missions

Reimagining the California Missions is former Franciscan friar Mark Day's concise and fascinating memoir-history about his painful realization that the conventional settler-colonial depiction of California's mission era that he and other young Franciscans received did not reflect the traumatic reality of that difficult time period. The book depicts how Day's awakening brought him closer to Native Californians, many of whom still honor their ancient traditions, and who consider Day and others lik