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Join host Elsa Sevilla as she interviews a Canadian historian who discovered Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's true origin, who appeared to be Portuguese but in fact is Spanish, and how Cabrillo's 1542 voyage to Alta California laid the groundwork for the Sacred Spanish Expedition to San Diego in 1769.
Discover what happened during the encounter between the Indigenous People of the Kumeyaay Nation and the Spanish settlers in 1769. What happened during the first weeks and months following? Hear the Native's perspective on this period in time.
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