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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T161500
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URL:https://www.hmc.edu/calendar/events/hsa-book-talk-native-alienation-sp
 iritual-conquest-and-the-violence-of-california-missions-dr-charles-sepulv
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Dr. Charles Sepulveda– “Native Alienation: Spiri
 tual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions“
DESCRIPTION:Focusing on the region currently called California\, ethnic stu
 dies professor Charles Sepulveda examines the ghosts of missionization\, c
 olonization and dispossession—the “afterlife” of violation. No longe
 r shrouded with misnomers like “progress” or “religious conversion\,
 ” he calls out their true name: genocide and enslavement\, enacted with 
 unimaginable violence by Spanish priests and soldiers in the name of spiri
 tual and physical possession. Sepulveda points out that while resistance\,
  survival and empowerment run like a thread through California Indian hist
 ory\, it has come with a price: whatever empowerment we gain\, we cannot w
 alk away as if unscathed by such a history\, but must carry it with us\, a
 cknowledging what has been irreparably lost and what must be reinvented. T
 o ignore it is to ignore colonization\, which continues to dispossess Cali
 fornia Indians of our sovereignty and human-land relationships.\nSpeaker\n
 Charles Sepulveda studies California Indian histories with a focus on the 
 mission system’s enslavement of Native peoples and their resistance. He 
 earned his PhD in ethnic studies at UCR and held previous appointments at 
 Cal Poly Pomona and the University of Utah. He received the Sacred Places 
 Institute for Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rematriation Fellowship and the F
 ord Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Sepulveda’s first book\, Native 
 Alienation: Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions\, w
 as published by the University of Washington Press in 2024. His article\, 
 “Our Sacred Waters: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility\,” o
 ffered guests the opportunity to radically alter their relations to place.
  Sepulveda is a board member of the Acjachemen Tongva Land Conservancy\, t
 he Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy\, and Sacred Places Institute for I
 ndigenous Peoples.
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LOCATION:Shanahan Center\, 320 E. Foothill Blvd.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\,
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