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THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS:
CONFERENCE AT MISSION SAN FERNANDO
KEN AND CAROL PAULEY BOOK ON MISSION SAN FERNANDO
DEATH OF ROBERT RYAL MILLER
CORO HISPANO DE SAN FRANCISCO
BIBLIOTECA FRANCISCANA
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
WEBSITES TO EXPLORE
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CONFERENCE AT MISSION SAN FERNANDO
The 22nd Annual CMSA conference will be held at Mission San Fernando on
February 18-20, 2005. The opening night reception, a brief business
meeting, and the keynote address will be held at the Mission itself.
Our keynoter will be Dr. Iris Engstrand of the University of San Diego,
whose important work has long been familiar to our members. The next
day‚s activities, including the presentation of papers and the banquet,
will be held at the Airtel Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, 7277
Valjean Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406. The excursion Sunday will be a
special tour of the exhibit "El Notre: the Spanish and Mexican North,"
at the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center. The tour
will include a presentation by the exhibit curator, Dr. Louise Pubols.
Registration materials will be sent out to the CMSA membership by the
end of October. For now, however, you might want to reserve your room
at the Hotel. Call 818-997-7676, and mention that you will be part of
the CMSA conference to receive the special conference rate of $89.00.
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KEN AND CAROL PAULEY BOOK ON MISSION SAN FERNANDO
Many CMSA members are aware that Ken and Carol Pauley have long been at
work on a volume on the history of Mission San Fernando. Ken and
Carol report that the book, entitled San Fernando, Rey de
España: An Illustrated History is being published by The Arthur
H. Clark Company, Spokane, WA, and will be available for ordering by
year‚s end. The Clark Company will offer a traditional discount
on pre-publication orders. A flyer will be sent to CMSA members in
December. San Fernando, Rey de España: An Illustrated
History will be available for pickup or shipment on the first night of
the upcoming Mission San Fernando conference. Ken and Carol will be
available for a book signing during the conference‚s opening reception
at the Mission, and they will also be present on the next day in
the book vendors‚ area during the conference.
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DEATH OF ROBERT RYAL MILLER
CMSA member Robert (Bob) Ryal Miller died on August 5 at La Jolla.
Members will remember his attendance at a number of CMSA gatherings.
Both Bob and his wife Penny were enthusiastic participants at the 2002
La Paz conference. Bob was the author or editor of thirteen
books, including his 1998 Juan Alvarado: Governor of California,
1836-1852, which was reviewed in our newsletter by CMSA‚s R. David
Weber, and is posted at http://www.ca-missions.org/weber.html. A fuller
biography of Bob will appear in the next issue of the Boletín.
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CORO HISPANO DE SAN FRANCISCO
The Coro Hispano de San Francisco, directed by CMSA member Juan Pedro
Gaffney, has a series of upcoming concerts in the Bay Area in October
and January. The October event, "Música de Corte y Campo,"
will consist of Spanish Renaissance choral and keyboard music,.
The January event, "Día de los Reyes," will feature Nativity and
Epiphany music of the Early, High and Late Classic (1740-1820) periods
newly transcribed for modern performance from the Puebla and Mexico
City Cathedral archives. See their web site for more details:
http://www.corohispano.org/
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BIBLIOTECA FRANCISCANA
The Franciscan Province of Santo Evangelio de México and the
Universidad de las Américas in Puebla have combined to organize
the Biblioteca Franciscana in San Pedro Cholula. The library contains
the archives of six different Franciscan convents: Santa Úrsula
Coapa and San Juan Bautista Coyoacán in Mexico City, San
Andrés Calpan, San Francisco, and San Gabriel Cholula in Puebla,
and San José de Gracia de Orizaba in Veracruz. The
Director is Fr. Francisco Morales, O.F.M. More information is available
at http://biblio.udlap.mx/
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
David Igler, "Diseased Goods: Global Exchanges in the Eastern Pacific
Basin, 1770-1850"
American Historical Review, vol. 109, no. 3 (June 2004): 693-719.
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Websites To Explore:
www.haywardareahistory.org/alta.html
Alta California
How the East Bay area of present-day Hayward, Castro Valley, and San
Lorenzo figured in the histories of the 1776 Anza expedition, Mission
San Jose, and the establishment of ranchos. Well-chosen photos of
period artifacts, drawings, and paintings illustrate the website, which
was produced for the Hayward Area Historical Society.
www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesGS.asp?sort=1&curGroupID=99&display=1&area=99&searchText=cliff+swallow&curPageNum=1&recnum=BD0250
Cliff Swallow
From the online National Wildlife Federation Field Guides, here is a
description and photo of the swallow of San Juan Capistrano
legend; click on “spring migration” for a map of the migration
route from Argentina northward. Some of these plucky little birds
stop off in southern California and others push on to Alaska and
northern Canada.
www.syvpirates.org/~east/mission/summary.doc
Mission Santa Inés Aqueduct Mapping Dynamic GIS, History and
Technology 2003/04 Santa Ynez Valley Union High School
Report of the hands-on archaeological project carried out by Santa Ynez
Valley Union High School student to map Mission Santa Ines’ water
system. The students’ documentary research and field work are
presented along with their resulting hypotheses.
www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78winter/occupation.htm
The Occupation of the Port of San Diego de Alcalá by Iris Wilson
Engstrand
Narrative of events from the departure of the two-pronged sea-land
expedition to Alta California 1769 to the establishment of Spain’s
foothold at San Diego.
www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78winter/plans.htm
Plans for the Occupation of Upper California A New Look at the
“Dark Age” from 1602 to 1769 by Donald C. Cutter
Despite many beliefs to the contrary, Spanish interest in the
colonization of Alta California did not die after the Vizcaino
expedition not to be reborn until the Portola-Serra expedition of 1769.
http://www.notfrisco.com/almanac/kroeber01/sfernandohtml
San Fernando Rey de España: A Mission Record of the
California Indians (1811)
Alfred L. Kroeber’s translaltion of a missionary description of the
pre-con tact foods, religious beliefs, medicines, and other cultural
practices of San Fernando Mission neophytes
.
www.bigrocket.com/diss
Spanish Missions and Native Religion: Contact, Conflict, and
Convergence
Doctoral dissertation in Archaeology, UCLA, 1999. Through
mortuary study of two Chumash cemetery sites (pre-contact Medea
Creek and historic Malibu), doctoral candidate Terisa Green concluded
that Chumash religion survived the mission experience through selective
adaptation; some basic beliefs and practices continued while
others changed in significant ways.
ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
www.library.csustan.edu/bsantos/Californiabiblio1.htm
A Bibliography of Early California. and Neighboring Territory Through
1846: An Era of Exploration, Missions, Presidios, Ranchos, and Indians.
Compiled by Robert LeRoy Santos., Reference Librarian and University
Archivist, California State University, Stanislaus. University
Library, The present online bibliography contains works published
1990-2001 and is a supplement to an earlier 1992 bibliography by Mr.
Santos.
www.mip.berkeley.edu/cilc/bibs/toc.html
Bibliographies of Northern and Central California Indians
Assembled 1988–1995 by the defunct California Indian Library
Collections Project, this is a massive listing of finding guides, books
and articles and other materials pertaining to tribes of northern
and central counties. Unfortunately, funding ran out before the
project could include coastal tribes south of San Francisco Bay,
southern California, or of the southern portions of the San Joaquin
Valley, southern Sierra Nevada, or eastern desert.
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:OlGExXm6GB4J:www.lib.calpoly.edu/departments/pdf/Chumash%2520Indians.pdf+A+Brief+History+of+Mission+San+Luis+Obispo+De+Tolosa+&hl=en&start=22&ie=UTF-8
Bibliography On Chumash Indians
A listing of resources compiled in October 2002 for the Learning
Resources and Curriculum Department of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Summaries of books, pictures, videocassettes, and websites relevant to
the Chumash. Grade level suitability is indicated for elementary
students and teachers for many of the books and some of the websites.
www.dartmouth.edu/~hispanic/altabib.htm
Hispanic Music In Alta California
Bibliography compiled by the International Hispanic Music Study Group,
Darmouth College professor William Summers, coordinator. As Dr.
Summers says, “Bibliographies are an important means of disseminating
research."