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<p>When Dr. Donna Schindler was a senior at the University of Texas, School of Medicine in 1979, she did an externship at the Laguna Pueblo near Albuquerque, New Mexico. That’s where she said she fell in love with working with Native people. After doing her psychiatry residency in the Bay Area and then working for ten years, she traveled to New Zealand where she joined a Maori mental health team.</p>
Serra Canonization
Perspective:
By Mark R. Day
If history is not just the past, but part of the present, as William Faulkner once wrote, then the stories of the surviving families of Native Californians have a lot to tell us about the California mission period from 1769 to 1833.
Memories of the suffering, abuse, deaths and destruction of their cultures are part of a legacy they live with every day.