Subject: Art Holquin

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  February 12, 2009

• David Belardes, OC's Most Controversial Native American Leader, Draws a Line in the Cemetery

  February 5, 2009

• 'Tittie Twister'!

  October 27, 2005

• Rain, Sage, Chants, Prayers, Apologies All Wrapped Up in a Rainbow

  After turning a corner leading to the Mission San Juan Capistrano courtyard, participants leaving this morning's wet prayer ceremony in honor of Native Americans who perished in an 1812 earthquake that toppled the Old Stone Church were treated to a bright, magnificent rainbow hanging over the western sky.That would not be the day's last miracle. The mission's clerical leader, Father Art Holquin, delivered his "strongest apology" to date for the desecration of sacred Native American burial ground

  February 6, 2009

• Juaneno Chief's Wife Cha Cha Belardes Passes Away

  Photo by John Gilhooley Chief David Belardes with tribal manager Joyce Perry of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians. ​When the Weekly was covering the conflict between Mission San Juan Capistrano and a faction of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians earlier this year, it appeared at times that Chief David Belardes would not be able to participate. In the end, he graciously gave way more face time than the reporter and photographers deserved, especially considerin

  November 10, 2009