The Historian · Zoe · Los Angeles
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
I don't romanticize the missions. I go here because you cannot understand Los Angeles without confronting what was built on the Tongva homeland.
Founded 1771. The most intact of the Southern California missions and the most complicated — a site of forced labor, violence, and Tongva displacement.
— Zoe, The Historian
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