Borderlands | Lost LA | Season 2, Episode 1 | KCET

American history has long been told as a triumphant march westward from the Atlantic coast, but in southern California, our history stretches back further in time. This episode explores the interconnected lives of three people who lived through California's transition from native land to Spanish colony and from to Mexican province to American state. Featuring the stories of native teacher Toypurina, who led the revolt against the San Gabriel Mission, Spanish soldier Jose Marco Pico, who served at the mission, and his son Pio Pico, who became the last Mexican Governor of California.
00:00 - 01:14 Introduction
01:14 - 07:35 The Cultural Impact of Missions
07:35 - 12:07 Native Rebellion
12:07 - 15:20 Race and Identity in Spanish Colonialization
15:20 - 18:32 Independence and Modernization
18:32 - 24:14 United States Colonization
24:14 - 26:10 Conclusion
26:10 - 26:41 Credits
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[@genesisjohns3673]

This series is so awesome and informative. As a new L.A. citizen. I wanna learn as much as possible. Thanks for this wonderful series!!! Please keep going.

[@prodbycams2130]

my dad and his family is all from LA, South Central, Huntington Park, Watts, etc. When he showed me this series on tv a couple weeks ago, he couldn't stop talking during every segment because he grew up with all of these great attractions, sights, etc. Welcome to LA, I hope you enjoy it here with us. :)

[@gabrielalarcon30]

@@prodbycams2130HP👍

[@-los-7291]

Genesis Johns go back to Europe !

[@stenbak88]

Be careful of the PC SJW revisions they add with their ridiculous comments

[@madfx8058]

As a Filipino-american who grew up closely with working class Chicanos/Mexicans, this history is important. In Filipino culture even though we have Spanish surnames we're just about 95-98% full blooded indigenous (the names were assigned to us, we're not as mixed as most people think) despite that, our culture and mentality is very much centered around the Meztiso identity. The racial caste system, and how this programming taught it, is very impactful.

[@bleh3039]

As mexicans we grew up considering filipinos our cousins

[@dondeal3561]

Pio pico was a black man

[@dondeal3561]

@Aztecs Have Been Taking L's Since 1519 5 dollar Indian

[@strawberry10261026]

@@dondeal3561 he sure was .. . His wife Spanish?

[@saucytony4609]

People forget the pilipinos were and remain primos they was with is in the cesar chavez days

[@dinamikesell3202]

wow. Born in SanDiego, raised in Ventura County, I grew up in the 1970s. I had never even heard of the Tongva people until randomly finding this video. I was looking at "history" topic on youtube. Very glad to learn more about things I never knew. I hope that more and more people will share these stories and share the facts about people who lived in California so long ago before white people wandered into the lands. It does no good to keep repeating false histories. Its not romantic.

[@raymondalverez5999]

Thanks for your comments. My family goes back through the "Chumas-Tong-va " people. My great grandparents were of Native American people and of the Japanese people. I've tracked it back to pre-1400. We're learned to ASSIMILATE. We're not EXTINCT!!!

[@BrodyYYC]

I love how that one guy says California!

[@elboogie4u]

Pico said: ‘You got me fucked up’!! Love it!!!

[@clarkewi]

Great series. I moved to West LA from NYC in 1958. It was wonderful. In 1975 after graduating university, I moved to Santa Cruz. It was wonderful. Now I live in New Zealand and Its wonderful. Alot like Southern Cal was in the late 50's.

[@Blend-24]

I often say that on the east coast, the mother country was England through the pilgrams and on the west coast, our mother country is MEXÍCO through los pobladores. ( yes, they carried the “Spanish” flag but the majority of supplies and personage came from Mexico. por ejemplo; only one of the 44 pobladores of Los Ángeles was actually from Spain and only one other was criollo)

[@handsome526]

My mother's grandmother died at the age of 100. She was TONGVA her family was native to the San Gabriel valley.

[@handsome526]

She died in 2001

[@simonegad]

very enlightening. love this series-glad i found it.

[@piopico6896]

Very cool

[@stephanielyons9122]

I really enjoyed this history. I feel so enlightened being from both Afro and Indian decent.

[@itowmyhome797]

Thank you

[@ashleydunlap4692]

And that’s why crystals prayer rituals that my ancestors did are deemed evil now because of individuals with a mindset like Thomas workman.

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Interesting storys

[@ltlieu61]

very informative, great series, interesting, i am so intrigued , am i a mexican-american..?

[@michaelelguerito8272]

Wrong! The Spanish Monarchy did not judge or burn alive woman who were accused of being witches. However, the Hispanic Monarchy constitutes "an absolutely unique case in all of Europe" because in the face of the "prevailing witchcraft madness" the Council of the Supreme and General Inquisition became a "bastion of wisdom, prudence and rationality" and did not allow " that a single witch was burned "in the nine" complicities of witches "in which he intervened between 1526 and 1596. [26] According to Joseph Pérez. As a matter a fact there was a Spanish Inquisition in México, and throughout the American continent. Though the natives weren’t prosecuted nor killed, however it only applied to certain mestizos. I’m not saying the Spanish monarchy wasn’t evil but they had less casualties compared to the British and Portuguese empire. FYI Pío Pico’s family was of Spanish decent. The only thing I hear about this documentary is about separatism and how the natives class against the Spanish, yes it was so true though at the end they had a future and played a big role throughout the Spanish and Mexican empire. Yes México did have its empire though it lasted for about a year or two.

[@DerGlaetze]

These producers should make a documentary about the many whites who came to old California and married Mexican women, thereby qualifying them to legally purchase land from the local Californios. The list includes people like Wilson, the grandfather of General Patton. Another interesting story is about “Don Enrique” Dalton, an English businessman who purchased land that once stretched from Pasadena to Claremont. He ended up losing all of his land, trying to appeal the leaders in Washington to stop the land grabbing Americans from squatting all over his land, as well as the railroads taking the rest of it, following the Civil War. Pico wasn’t alone in this story. And Henry Dalton was white!

[@rickyt11]

Thanks for sharing. Also Colonel Griffith and the Los Feliz family. ✔

[@strawberry10261026]

Yee the crafty white man strikes again

[@tonynguyen9755]

Include your 2-3 key takeaways (what you learned) from the Lost LA: Borderlands video. Provide a response to one of the following questions from the previous page: Who has come before you to get you to this space and place of learning? How do you acknowledge those who have struggled and resisted to allow you the privilege to learn in higher education?

[@eric-dl7jh]

lmk

[@genmaicha1772]

nah bruh ur actually lazy af

[@ava.cardboard]

Yeah wondering the same

[@maplemothgirl]

Mf watch the video

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

I learned alot fron the vid

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Its Intresting

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

The pictures are good

[@itstocoaudry5871]

I grew up around the corner from pio pico’s mansion

[@MS-hb3ol]

Who's here from more plates more dates lol

[@hunnedproofproductions5529]

Came here for Rich Piana’s lost great grandfather. Lol

[@josh_ken]

I came here from Derrick lmao

[@haneefogs]

@@josh_ken derek?

[@JesusRodriguez-so2dh]

I’m from Pico Rivera

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Cool intro

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Its nice videos

[@dangonzalez8677]

It’s funny how this show completely glosses over the fact that Mexicans had a functional metropolis here in Mexican California. With a beautiful culture. Many of the current street names in downtown are original to those times. This so called peace shines a completely negative light on that era!

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Its crazy

[@raymondalverez5999]

Charles Temple had an interesting past, "Take while you can". Don't worry about the people you screw.

[@moniquemoreno6181]

😅 I went there for my school field trip today

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Califondian indian laguages are cool

[@raymondalverez5999]

Maybe in the future of our history taught in schools may change the historical facts of western United States.

[@marztar]

Pio PICO said "Sell them pinche missions guey! My only mission is to look like Betty Boop" 17:07

[@serenal.5969]

That’s my great great great grandfather

[@chs75]

Who?

[@serenal.5969]

chs75 That was my 9 year old who posted...lol. Pio Pico is my husbands 3x great grandfather. My mother in law is the daughter of Josephine Pico Marquez who was Pio Picos last great granddaughter.

[@chs75]

@@serenal.5969 that is very cool family history!

[@sheilapico5552]

My name say's it all.

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

I accsept history like u say

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

I can understand it

[@user-xt3gh6du9r]

The horrors of the work station

[@Blue-jd8jf]

The funny thing is that California and Los Angeles is majority Latino again😛

[@thebluedan]

Language is the first thing people take when they conquer you.... forced or coerced speech.... sounds like today

[@MrGalonge]

Please, enough with the conspiracy that you anti-political correctness nuts insist is real. You anti-PC people are the ones guilty of attempted thought-control.

[@MrGalonge]

Why must every single video on youtube be filled with resentful republicans such as yourself?? Really?? Every fucking video??? Take a fucking break, will you?

[@marianatorres5462]

@@MrGalonge I'd say not republican. But he stating facts though

[@jackhasselhoff1021]

@@MrGalonge idiot

[@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo]

@@MrGalonge because it's true bitch that's why.....

[@briansmith9439]

The Spanish Empire's population was half-again as large as the Aztec Empire (9m v 6m) and only the Incan Empire to the far south was larger at 12m. Hardly small by any standard; beyond that, it commanded a quarter of the world's wealth at the time.

[@TheEverydaypeoples]

I am an dediginus person!

[@catchcourtcourt]

This was pretty cool, a bit anti white but whatever. I'm from Pico Rivera, born and raised. We would go to Pio Picos mansion off Whittier Blvd all the time. I love my hometown!

[@jo0onvel]

not anti white. that's just your feelings. these are facts. the old paisanos lost who they were and were in denial.

[@MsHeartIsArt]

Anti-white. 😂 If that’s what you want to call white-supremacy.

[@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo]

@@jo0onvel dude why are you wearing a mask for a picture? Come on man..... Camera is gonna give you covid?

[@razasoldier3041]

It’s anti Spanish and it kinda makes sense since the foundation of America is anti catholic anti Spanish

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Califondian indian laguages are Strange

[@henryonly8351]

👍 🏴🏴🏴🏴

[@AD-sh7jo]

Rich piana!

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Inlearned a lot

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

I beleve what u tell me

[@l.a.mobramscalifornia9023]

Bring back THE NATIVES.....THE CALIFORNIOS...WELCOME TO THE MEXICAN STATES OF AMERICA.

[@jonmacdonald5345]

L.A. MOB RAMS CALIFORNIA Lol the Rams suck a big bag of donkey Dick's!

[@JulianGuevaraphoto]

@@jonmacdonald5345 We Natives are STILL HERE!

[@jonmacdonald5345]

@@JulianGuevaraphoto Fuck yeah we are big up the Chumash and Ute Nations

[@EugeneVDebs-mo6dh]

@Sebastian Guevara eww white supremacy

[@dondeal3561]

@@JulianGuevaraphoto no you ppl are of the Spaniards Black ppl are the true native Americans

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Coll names you show

[@ava.cardboard]

Can someone post a summary to this video? I ain't listenin to allat

[@benjaminharrison2084]

Survival of the fittest.

[@leoelteniente6875]

Native Americans are The only owners of those lands, including Native Mexicans...before the borders, it was no distinction.

[@darkblade8164]

everything was good before bear revolt terrorist (anglos)arrive stole everthing

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

I get dc nitro when i doo that

[@AntzLoks1314]

El-Choctaw-lord-De-CalifasMexicoAztlan Antz-that-walks-in-sky i 🐜

[@blancobaseballbreaks2525]

Pico? You mean Pico rivera

[@albertson8181]

Google pretty good lol

[@omidfilms]

21:18 this is what Trump tried to do to America

[@rickirubio3973]

so basically California was never really Spanish or Mexican it was Native American land that the Spanish took away from them and then the Mexicans took away from them so this is all Native American

[@jameshowell2390]

Right and Mexicans always sayin that California was once Mexico but always leave out the fact that it was Native American Land way before Spain came along wtf

[@joseguerreroneri18]

From an indigenous or a pre-Columbian context (Chumash, Hupa, Miwok, and Serrano) yes. But from a colonial or an imperialistic perspective (Spain, Mexico, and the United States of America), no.

[@srod8818]

Wtf are u talking about Mexicans are mix of both so yes it's our land did u even pay attention?

[@jameshowell2390]

@@srod8818 Bro this was never your Land Cuz this was never Mexico Aztecs were never in California and U probably have more European blood than indigenous so technically this isn't your land

[@srod8818]

@@jameshowell2390 the Europeans didn't maintain they're blood line throughout generations so very unlikely

[@JOJO-kc1vz]

tattoo on a woman discus t

[@Californiansurfer]

❤❤❤. 2023 Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara book. 1947 Japanese Americans are released from camps and sent to Chicago and return to Little Tokyo to find Brownsville black community. The Jewish families move out of Boyle Heights. 😢😢

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

I dont spam. This comments i say what i think about the vid

[@matthewrudolph3514]

A bit of a myopic view from a biased perspective. There’s more to the story here.

[@mtmdino]

I was enjoying this series until they started rewriting history. If they want to give a full history of California why didn't they begin with the dinosaurs?

[@thebluedan]

mtm dino dinosaur never existed

[@oceandrew]

If the dinosaurs left a written record they should be included in the history of California. Got any dino records?

[@Drezzedtokill]

mtm dino 😂😂😂

[@cutiepiemor]

how is this rewriting history? this is non colonized history REAL history. just say you're racist and move

[@MsHeartIsArt]

Rewriting it? You’re literally dumb.

[@TheVinceLyons]

mecca lecca high mecca hiney ho..

[@williamvasquez1677]

That is genius. Rip Paul ruebens

[@tvexpert_xd2388]

Big familys

[@deona267]

I know this California Pagan does not want christianity either

[@mrthye290]

Great narrative for anglosaxonism exaltation. However, if you really want to know the truth or the actual history about native americans, spanish and mexicans living in the area go check spanish, mexican or native american archives instead. You will probably find everything for good or bad, because is not in our culture to burn our shames. Unfortunately, propaganda against the opressed population worked pretty well and people´s beliefs about what happened back then is just wrong. But this is just a matter of time. I am sure we´ll see how real history comes up within this century. Everyone needs it. There is too much unnecessary hate.

[@craigrasmussen3559]

FYI - California & Los Angeles state & county archives are filled with Spanish & Mexican documents. Who do you think ran the state & local governments before 1849? Those records didn't just disappear.

[@razasoldier3041]

Agreed this is given from anti catholic anti Spanish perspective of the people (Spanish &catholic) who settled here.

[@donaldharlan3981]

LIES

[@razasoldier3041]

That women is not Indian.

[@thehurricane218]

I find it interesting that a lot of these "natives" have Spanish, or should I say, Mexican last names. Its almost like theses "natives" forgot how the Aztecs didn't exactly care for the "natives" of California and also warred with them constantly. And yet the "natives" never mention the Clovis culture of White people that their ancestors wiped out thousands of years ago. Sort of like the Polynesian Hawaiians, they have blinders on that don't allow them to see the greater picture. The anger blinds them and will lead them to be a blip in history, no matter how many latino catholics you brainwash on day trips.

[@l.a.mobramscalifornia9023]

Shut the hell up...you're ignorant af.

[@silvanomarquez6713]

No such thg “ mex last name “

[@silvanomarquez6713]

Were the Clovis from Europe ?

[@andresgallardo1121]

The Solutreans come from Spain, in the end all roads lead to Iberia.

[@eugeniofernandez8101]

The Spaniards and their cousins, the Portuguese, mixed with the Indians since day one. The Anglosaxons didn´t since they are much more racist and typically looked very different than the indians, more Scandiniavian whereas Spaniards look more like Turks, Greeks, Arabs, etc.

[@disgruntledpedant2755]

VOTE TRUMP 2020!

[@MrGalonge]

Are you fucking serious? Fuck off! This is a history video on Los Angeles. Why do you cry-baby republicans stick your fat noses into every fucking corner and crevasse?!? GO AWAY!

[@pitaensenada]

@@MrGalonge Trump 2021

[@jimmypark7406]

@@pitaensenada 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@blacklivesmatters3151]

Black people was an is indigenous yall so call Mexican is Spanish looking people some of yall came when the moorish people that was black took yall here yes moorish was black Egyptian also.