PERCEIVING, EXPERIENCING, AND EXPRESSING THE SACRED: An Indigenous Southern Californian View

As an indigenous southern Californian I have been asked to convey to you, in the next twenty minutes or so, something of my feelings for the sacred. What this means to me is that I will also be conveying to you something of my peoples’ interactions with, and membership within, the natural world.¹ I...

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Zusammenfassung:As an indigenous southern Californian I have been asked to convey to you, in the next twenty minutes or so, something of my feelings for the sacred. What this means to me is that I will also be conveying to you something of my peoples’ interactions with, and membership within, the natural world.¹ I would like to begin by discussing the actions of one of my antecedents, a young Shoshonean woman named Toypurina who on the evening of October 25, 1785, led a revolt against the priests and soldiers of Misión San Gabriel Arcángel. Attest my elders: at that time,