Mask of Zorro

This week we're going back to 1840s California with the Mask of Zorro! Join us to learn about children in Catholic missions, the truly weird story of a guy named Harry Love and the head of Joaquin Murrieta, the dons of California, and more! <p>Sources<br /> Cecilia Rasmussen, "Early Lawman Overshadowed by His Quarry," Los Angeles Times, available at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-me-then12-story.html<br /> Full Documentary, "The Head of Joaquin Murrieta," Available at https://vimeo.com/189559216<br /> Fronteras, Interview with John Valadez, available at https://video.pbswisconsin.org/video/fronteras_krwg-head-joaquin-murrieta-john-valadez/<br /> Mask of Zorro, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mask_of_zorro<br /> "Steven Spielberg Had to Talk Martin Campbell Into Making Mask of Zorro," SlashFilm, available at https://www.slashfilm.com/778799/the-wizard-of-oz-almost-premiered-without-its-signature-song/<br /> Roger Ebert's Review of Mask of Zorro: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mask-of-zorro-1998<br /> Mask of Zorro, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Zorro</p> <p>Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr., We Are the Land: A History of Native California (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). <br /> Martin Rizzo-Martinez, "First Were Taken the Children, and Then the Parents Followed," We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), : https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv270kv7w.7 .<br /> Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, "Junipero Serra's Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias," in The Worlds of Junipero Serra: Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations edited by Steven W. Hackel (University of California Press); https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2050wrm.12 </p> <p>Kevin Starr, California: A History (New York: The Modern Library, 2015). <br /> "Mexican California," Library of Congress, https://www.loc.go