Olivia Chilcote

“Cháam Qéchyam: Reclaiming the San Luis Rey Indian Village in California History” is a community-engaged and place-based project that examines the historic San Luis Rey Indian Village in San Diego County as a site of both emergence and convergence where Luiseño people confronted colonization on their own terms. The San Luis Rey Indian Village emerged as a community in the face of Spanish colonization where Luiseños converged to preserve land, culture, and an Indigenous sovereignty. Drawing on oral histories and archival records, “Cháam Qéchyam” reorients the historiography of California to one centered in Indigenous experience.