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THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION

May  2006                                                                                                                                Vol. 4, No. 4

Edited by Robert M. Senkewicz
(Please submit any items for inclusion to rsenkewicz@scu.edu)


CONTENTS:

BOLETÍN

CMSA 2007 CONFERENCE

ART EXHIBIT

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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BOLETÍN

The next issue of the Boletín is just now being mailed. Depending on how your local post office handles bulk mail, it should be arriving in the next couple of weeks. The Boletin is being sent ONLY to those members whose membership is current through the end of this calendar year, 2006. If you neglected to renew last winter, do so right away, so that the Boletín can be sent to you. The next issue will appear in early fall.

The current issue contains essays by Harry Crosby on the composition of Portolá expedition, Karl Kottman on Pablo Tac in Europe, Blaine Lamb on the Mission Revival movement, and a symposium on Steven Hackel‚s book „Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis.‰ This issue also contains the inauguration of a new regular feature, a report from the California Missions Foundation called „Cornerstones.‰  Finally, the issue contains reviews by David Block, Gloria Miranda, and W. Michael Mathes of new books

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CMSA 2007 CONFERENCE

The 2007 CMSA conference will be held at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Conference Chair is Andy Galvan, Curator of the Mission. The event will be held the weekend of February 16-18. Mark your calendars now! More information will be available in the fall.

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ART EXHIBIT

CMSA member Susan Prather invites members to visit the AVArtFest on the weekend of June 3-4, on the grounds of the Triton Museum in Santa Clara (1505 Warburton Ave.).  Susan herself will be showing photos that she took at the Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico as well as some other work. The show will be open 11-5 both days, and there will be food and entertainment as well as the art. For more information, contract Susan at
sprather@ix.netcom.com.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  
William Bauer. „First People: Toypurinia, News From Native California, vol. 19, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 34-36.

Brian D. Haley. „The Case of the Three Baltazars: Indigenization and the Vicissitudes of the Written Word. Southern California Quarterly, vol. 87, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006): 397-411.

Kent G. Lightfoot. „Archaeology and Indians: Rethinking Archaeological Field Methods,  News From Native California, vol. 19, no. 3 (Spring 2006):21-24.

Gregorio Mora-Torres, trans. and ed. Californio Voices : The Oral Memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara.  Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2005.

Cynthia Radding Murrieta. Landscapes of Power and Identity : Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

Jesús F. De la Teja and Ross Frank, eds. Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
[CMSA member David J. Weber wrote the introduction to this collection, and CMSA member James A. Sandos contributed the essay on Alta California]

Mike Toner. „Impossibly Old America?   Archaeology, vol. 59, no. 3 (May/June 2006): 40-45.

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