Olivia Chilcote, “They Utterly Refuse”: The San Luis Rey Villiage’s Struggle for Land and Recognition in San Diego County, 1852-1912

San Diego State University Assistant Professor Olivia Chilcote (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) has been a Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Riverside over the past year. She will be giving a presentation on her research on October 29, at 4PM. This will be a Zoom event, open to the public, with pre-registration required: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/98049999591

Topic: “They Utterly Refuse”: The San Luis Rey Village’s Struggle for Land and Recognition in San Diego County, 1852-1912″

Description: As the only unrecognized tribe in San Diego County and the only unrecognized band of Luiseño Indians, the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians history and experience is often overshadowed by other federally recognized tribes in the region. In this presentation, Dr. Chilcote analyzes the San Luis Rey Band’s contemporary pursuit for federal recognition as part of a longer history of U.S.-tribal relations and how the tribe’s legal status is tied to histories of Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. colonization in California.