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Spanish colonial efforts in the Americas necessitated doctrine addressing the relationship between the Spanish and indigenous populations.

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Blessed Junipero Serra , Priest Dear June, Happy birthday! It's proof of your parents' sense of humor that when you were born on July 1st they named you "June". All I can say, though, is that you are lucky you weren't a boy, because they probably would have named you "Junipero", after today's saint .

So much of what he did each day did not seem "priestly." At the age of 22, already ordained a Franciscan priest, he was awarded the Duns Scotus chair in philosophy at the Lullian University in Palma, Mallorca, and he taught with great distinction there for the following 15 years.

This is an American story for Independence Day. Jose de la Guerra was born in 1779 near Santander, along the northern Spanish coast near France.

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was probably the first European to observe the early residents of the Central Coast.

I can't help but wonder how the brave new high-tech world we live in is changing childhood.

Carmel Mission's fifth annual Founder's Day celebration is set for later this month.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection offers over 200,000 pages of California newspapers spanning the years 1849-191l: the Alta California, 1849-1891; the San Francisco Call, 1893-1910; the Amador Ledger, 1900-1911; the Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; the Sacramento Record-Union, 1859-1890; and the Los Angeles Herald, 1905-1907. All the ...

The San Juan Bautista Historic Park is offering Movies in the Park with "The Mark of Zorro" at 8:30 p.m. June 26.

An Alta womana s decision to give false identification when she was arrested Monday is wreaking havoc on the life an innocent woman.

El Mision del Santo Principe el Arcangel San Gabriel de los Temblores, the Mother Church of the Archdiocese, "the Pride of the Missions" --- that's San Gabriel.

The question is the theme of a five-year celebration of the 500th anniversary of the naming of the Americas.

When we last checked in on La Voz de Aztlan , "the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing" online publication, in the words of Gustavo Arellano , was blaming the Jews for landing "La Causa" host Augustin Cebada in hot water.

Each week, hundreds of emails stream into my inbox concerning columns I have written addressing immigration and overpopulation.

The Tahoe Area Coordinating Council for the Disabled recently held its annual celebratory luncheon at Embassy Suites to recognize and honor the 2009 Distinguished Champions of the Disabled.

The Placer County Sheriff's Department is asking the public's help in finding a woman who has been missing since Jan.

Two hundred thirty years ago, an odd caravan trekked north through the Central Coast.

Nearly 100 Nevada City residents, often shouting and drowning out Caltrans officials, voiced their displeasure over being kept out of the planning process for the Interstate 80 detour that has rattled both windows and nerves in the small town.

Summer House is an unassuming cedar-sided house much like the other homes along 5th Street in Woodland.