IYA: The Ex’celen Remember: A Staged Reading about Native Esselen Memories of the California Spanish Mission

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When a family reunites by chance to remember a loved one they rediscover who they are to themselves, to each other, and to their ancestors. Inspired by Louise J. Miranda Ramirez, Tribal Chairwoman for the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation (OCEN) and written and arranged by Luis xago Juárez of Baktun12, this excerpt of IYA: The Ex’celen Remember features a flashback to the mid-1990s when these family members revisit a memory of their “Auntie Umu” and their own version of the 4th grade mission history project she helped them present as children to a school assembly, drawing immediate and unintended consequences.

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