In regards to curriculum, local kids are now required to read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States at Pacific Collegiate School. That is a Santa Cruz County charter school that is open to all students.

Also, I am a student of history and while I know that most of the missions in today's Mexico and Central America were centers of enslavement and genocide, not all of the missions in California were. Some actually had a commune-like environment, meeting the needs of the local communities. (Source of information: the book, Mexican Americans, Amercian Mexicans.)

Let's all continue to fight oppression in the many forms it takes.