Biographies of O.C.’s First Peoples

Name: Biographies of O.C.’s First Peoples
Start: 2024-12-12T19:30:00-08:00
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church

Schedule

Thu, 12 Dec, 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Trinity Episcopal Church | Orange, CA

In this talk, historian Eric Plunkett will discuss how Mission San Juan Capistrano’s baptism, marriage, and burial registers can be used to piece together compelling stories of the Acjachemen and Tongva peoples. The emergent stories include how different villages developed alliances through marriages, their various responses to colonization, and sketches of individual biographies that provide the best insight yet into the lives of Orange County’s first people. While many historians have looked at the larger picture, this is a rare opportunity to learn about some of these native locals as individuals.
Eric Plunkett is the author of St. Junípero Serra and the Founders of Mission San Juan Capistrano and Orange County and many scholarly articles and is co-author, with Phil Brigandi, of the OCHS publication, The Portola Expedition in Orange County. Plunkett teaches in the Placentia Yorba-Linda Unified School District. A native of Placentia, he graduated with a degree in history from CSU Fullerton. He has led numerous Orange County Historical Society tours and History Hikes and has addressed our Society on many occasions. He blogs about the early history of Orange County at www.visionsofcalifornia.blogspot.com.
Please join us for this compelling presentation on Thursday, December 12, 2024, 7:30p.m., at Trinity Episcopal Church, 2400 N. Canal St., in Orange. The public is welcome!