Revolutions Real and Imagined
‘One Battle After Another’ used the dramatic setting of California’s La Purisima Mission, but the location has a much more radical history By Joe Payne In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning “One Battle After Another,” Sean Penn’s villainous Lockjaw corners Chase Infiniti’s Willa in the chapel of a rural convent that gave her safe harbor.…
Chumash Revolution Thesis Published!
After four years of undergraduate and graduate study in History at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I am proud to share that my Masters Thesis about the largest Indigenous revolution against the California Mission system is published! The thesis, titled “The Chumash War of 1824: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the California Missions Santa Inés, Santa…
Chumash descendant Marianne Parra speaks on 1824 Chumash Revolution against the California Missions
I was honored and humbled to welcome a very special guest to Political Payne; Marianne Parra is a descendant of Indigenous Chumash peoples held in Missions Santa Ines, Santa Barbara, and La Purisima de Concepcion, the locus of the largest armed uprising against the California Missions in 1824. Marianne grew up on the Chumash Reservation…
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