Episode 12: Padre Issues (Original People of Los Angeles and the Mission System)

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An unidentified woman in ethnic costume poses next to a miniature model of Mission San Fernando Rey de España, at the time of the annual mission fiesta in 1931 or 1933. The front of the model shows six arches, a bell tower on the left, and a sign, which reads: "San Fernando Old Mission Blvd - 1797". San Fernando Rey de España Mission is located at 15151 San Fernando Mission Boulevard. Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

In honor of what we now know as "Thanksgiving," we’ll be talking about the native people who lived in what we now know as "Los Angeles" and what happened to them once what we now know as "the Spanish" came to take their land and put them in what we now know as "the Missions." This description is now known as "over." We cover the pre-historic and Native days of the city and the Spanish and mission days as well.