Los Angeles toppling of Junipero Serra statue, activists want full history told

LA Times ^ | June 21, 2020 | Carolina A. Miranda

[C19fan]

It began with a prayer and ended with a loud clunk.

On Saturday afternoon, a group of about five dozen indigenous activists of all ages — children and elders included — gathered at Father Serra Park in downtown Los Angeles, just south of Olvera Street. As Tataviam/Chumash elder Alan Salazar burned sage and invoked the spirit of his ancestors, a group of young activists bound the nearby statue of Father Junipero Serra with ropes and tore him off his pedestal to chants of "Take it down! Take it down!"

[hanamizu]

You are right, of course. I’m now going to style myself ‘Nordic elder Hanamizu’.