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DESCRIPTION:Join SCAS for a presentation by Amanda Dover on: “California Mission Bell 
 Markers: A Study of Heritage and Culture.”\n\nDATE: Thursday, May 8, 
 2025\nTIME: 7:30 – 8:30 PM (Pacific)\n\nThis is a hybrid event! We invite 
 you to join us in-person at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean 
 Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, or via Zoom (see below for Zoom registration 
 form)!\n\nZOOM REGISTRATION FORM: Meeting Registration 
 –\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZSFQaIyMRsi3T86k9zVeCQ#/registration\n\n***RSVP 
 for Zoom by 6:30 PM on Thursday, May 8, 2025***\n\nThis discussion focuses 
 on the contested status of the California mission bells as public heritage, 
 with recent campaigns to contextualize and remove celebratory displays of 
 the bells in consideration of the consequences of missionization for 
 California Indian tribes. Dover will provide a robust historic context for 
 the bell markers, particularly their installation along the El Camino Real 
 Highway, roughly the route of today’s 101 Freeway. Beginning in 1906, the 
 bells were erected by the Native Daughters of the Golden West, a 
 historically nativist organization that sought to promote tourism at the 
 missions, and helped to build the benevolent mission myth. Dover used 
 surveys of state park visitors taken at the Santa Cruz Mission State 
 Historic Park, where she interned during the summer of 2023, and data 
 collected from individual and organizational stakeholders, to drive her 
 research. The analysis yielded a productive contrast in attitudes between 
 Native American tribes and Californio descendants claiming heritage of the 
 early Spanish colonists.\n\nAmanda received her AA in Anthropology from 
 Cabrillo College in June of 2020, and in 2022 she completed her BA in 
 Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. During the summer of 2022, Dover attended 
 and completed the Cabrillo College archaeological field school. She then 
 transferred to the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received 
 her Master’s in Cultural and Heritage Resource Management in spring of 
 2024. Amanda currently works as an English, Anthropology, and Archaeology 
 tutor in the tutoring center at Cabrillo College. She is also a part-time 
 technical report writer and an on-call field technician for two local Santa 
 Cruz Cultural Resources Management companies. Amanda’s thesis work was 
 inspired by her 4th grade trip to the San Juan Bautista mission, where she 
 learned a false and romanticized history of California Indians and the 
 California missions. She is passionate about and is continuously working 
 towards bringing more awareness to the myth of the missions, to revise the 
 California 4th grade mission curriculum, and the decolonization of colonial 
 spaces and landscapes in California. Amanda enjoys connecting social 
 justice issues to her work. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/28/18875992.php
SUMMARY:California Mission Bell Markers: A Study of Heritage and Culture
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/28/18875992.php
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