Steven W. Hackel, Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, is general editor of the Huntington’s EarlyCalifornia Population Project and author of Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) and Junípero Serra: California's Founding Father (Hill and Wang, 2013).