Built around a former Mission, our university sits on land layered with meaning. Long before brick buildings and manicured lawns, Ohlone communities lived, worked, gathered, and resisted here. Their history did not begin in 1777 with the founding of Mission Santa Clara de Asís. However, most of what students encounter about this land, in their […]
As a keeper of historical records, it’s not often that I take advantage of the opportunity to not only watch but be an active part of our campus history in the midst of its creation. Usually, I’m focused on contextualizing current events with information from our past. Recently, however, my family and I decided to […]
Across the United States, in the weeks following the death of George Floyd, social protests brought renewed scrutiny of statues and monuments in public places in nearly every state, particularly the memorials to Confederate generals, such as Robert E. Lee, or individuals involved in colonizing America, such as Christopher Columbus or Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M. […]
One Story of a Mission Santa Clara Indian Arguably the most famous Mission Indian of Mission Santa Clara, Lope Inigo of Rancho Posolmi is an Ohlone person whose life spanned the Spanish, Mexican, and American colonial period in the Santa Clara Valley, having lived from 1781-1864. Inigo held the relatively high post (available to an […]
