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Castillo, Edward D. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1994
Describes the devastating impact that Spanish colonization had on both traditional gender roles and female mortality among the Kumivit, or Gabrielino, Indians of Southern California. Documents the unique resistance and accommodation responses of Native women, from the shaman Toypurina's revolt against the missionaries to Bartolomea's accommodation…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indians, Christianity