Subject: Indians of North America--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: In a historical costume reenactment of a Gaspar de Portolá expedition, mounted Spaniards encounter North American Indian peoples outside of Los Angeles City Hall.
Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Gaspar de Portolá was appointed Governor of Las Californias from 1768-1770. During that time, he expelled the Jesuits from Baja California and led expeditions by land and sea to settle colonies on the California coast.
Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: J. Allison Moore (center), special agent in the Indian Service, standing indoors with Jack Kelly and Rose Grant. Kelly is wearing a hat and a star spangled bandanna tied around his neck, and Grant is wearing a head scarf.
Date:: [1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: California Indian Day was recognized in 1968 when California Tribal Leaders and then Governor Ronald Reagan declared the fourth Friday of September to be “California Native American Indian Day”. In 1998 it became an official state holiday by the passage of California State Assembly Bill AB 1953 making the 4th Friday in September "Native American Day”.
Date:: October 4, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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