To be clear, Junipero Serra committed genocide. His missions functioned as forced labor camps where Indigenous people were enslaved, shackled, beaten, and infected with European diseases that killed them by the thousands. https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/1274182715068133377
If you went to school in California, in the fourth grade you were forced to do a mission project, which involved studying the floor plan and making a replica smh. This practice only ended 3 years ago.
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