Melinda Welsh

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Book cover for A Cross of Thorns by Elias Castillo, featuring a pair of hands bound with rope and raised together beneath a crown of thorns; subtitle: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions.

Junipero Serra – A Cross of Thorns

Feb 11, 2015

Bay Area journalist Elias Castillo's new book, A Cross of Thorns, examines California's beginnings, the genocidal Spaniards and their spiritual leader, soon-to-be-sainted Junípero Serra

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