THE THEATRE OF CONVERSION, PART 5 San Gabriel was founded in 1771 to reduce (sic) and evangelize the large populations of Tongva peoples scattered in numerous rancherias across what is today the LA Basin. Remember in particular Yangna, the big rancheria under El Aliso, the sycamore in the bed of the LA River, which became … Continue reading Mission San Gabriel Archangel’s Indigenous ‘Stations of the Cross’