A History of California
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California history, from the first peoples right down to the present.
A History of California
7M ago
Our final mission-focused episode, including the environmental effects of unleashing European pack animals onto the environment, the demographic effects of unleashing disease epidemics on native cultures, and how the consequent specter of death also threatened to kill the colonial economy in Alta California. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
In the first appendix episode, we detail Lorenzo Asisara's narrative of the death of Andres Quintana at Mission Santa Cruz, question its accuracy, and then wonder whether that accuracy matters at all. Also: death by castration. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
What to do when a foreign power sets up colony-outposts in your land with the intent of converting your people to their new God? This episode we look at how various indigenous peoples up and down the California coast answered that question. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
This episode we track the early growth of the Franciscan missions under JunÃpero Serra until his 1784 death, what daily life was like inside for the indigenous people who lived there, and attempt to keep track of all the military governors Serra got into feuds with. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
On this episode, we watch the Spaniards get paranoid over the Russians and order the Sacred Expedition to occupy Monterey, which it finally does two years later after finding about half a dozen different ways to almost completely fail. And thus the missions at San Diego and Monterey are born. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
On this episode, we discuss the potential ramifications of Spanish contact with indigenous Californians, focusing on exchange on the short-term, ecological shift and the possibilities of disease spread in the mid-term, and the slow creep of Catholic missions northward in the long-term. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
We continue our tour of indigenous ethno-linguistic groups inside California prior to the arrival of the Spanish, this time covering the eastern desert cultures and the native peoples of Southern California ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
This episode we go on a winding tour of the indigenous language groups that existed in northern and central sections of California, and discuss whether those linguistic groupings really meant anything to the Native Californians who spoke those languages. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
In this episode we take a look at food resources, land management strategies, and how intentionally setting their lands on fire all contributed to building indigenous Californian cultures. ..read more
A History of California
7M ago
On this episode we discuss who were the first humans to reach California, blast through 12,000 years of cultural development, and investigate how indigenous Californians dealt with the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. Also possibly involving visitors from Polynesia ..read more