Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

The corrido is a traditional Mexican song style that has evolved over the past 200 years in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Corridos are all about storytelling. They tell of battle victories (and loses), individuals taking on the establishment, the lives of great or notorious…

Native women played an integral in developing botanical, herbal, and medicinal knowledge in their communities. They continued to provide healing expertise in mission communities. Native women also suffered disproportionately from diseases introduced by European colonists. Learn more about their…

Overlapping combinations of biases related to religion, race and gender meant that indigenous women had to face many intersectional layers of prejudice. These colonial European biases limited roles and opportunities of indigenous women.

By 1790 nearly one in five Californians had African ancestry. How Afro-Latino families came north with the Anza expedition, rose to wealth and power under Spain and Mexico — and lost ground after 1848.

Manuela Ygnacia López Peñuelas died after giving birth at the start of the 1775–76 Anza expedition to Alta California — the only colonist lost on a trek that at least eight women made while pregnant.