Chicano/Latino Lecture 4

El Aliso

Plaza, reservoir, church, cemetery sycamore tree. 400 years old, NATIVE gathering site

Four soldiers, and 44 pobladores (including 22 adults from several ethnic groups)

The founding of Los Angeles (1781)

Californio

The birth of a new ethnicity in 19th century California

Pio Pico

Marries into Californio elite. Last Mexican governor of California

Spanish Fantasy Past

Spanish dons ruled over Indians with benign paternalism. The era of Mexican colonialism one of pastoral simplicity

Helen Hunt Jackson

Writer (A Century of Dishonor, Ramona), Activist

Ramona

Describe the fading, seemingly romantic culture of the Spanish Californios

“Tragic Mulatto” of Imitation of Life

To point out the absurdity, cruelty of race ideas, authors, and filmmakers subject mixed race people to tragic outcomes

Natalie Diaz

Poet. First Latina poet to win the Pulitzer Prize

“The California Indian cataclysm of 1846-1873”

During Spanish, Russian, and Mexican rule from 1769 to 1846, California’s Indian population fell from about 310,00 to 150,00. Caused by disease, dislocation, and starvation.

Indian Indenture Act 1850

Prohibits Native people from suing whites in court, thus facilitating white appropriation of Native land.

Deborah A. Miranda

Wrote “Bad Indians”