THOUSAND OAKS, CA - The second in a series of talks on Spanish missionary Junipero Serra has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at California Lutheran University

Award-winning author Gregory Orfalea, who teaches at Westmont College, will present “Serra and the Indians of California: A Hymn or a Horror?” in Nygreen Hall 1. The talk had originally been scheduled for Nov. 8.

Orfalea will show that Serra, as a latecomer to the colonial scene, brought a more complex mindset to his relationship with Native Americans than is commonly understood.

A former writing teacher at CLU, Orfalea has written eight books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir, including a 2010 collection of short stories titled “The Man Who Guarded the Bomb.” Scribner plans to release “Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra and the Spanish Encounter with the California Indian” next year.

He has won awards for his writing and grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the California Arts Council, and has served as a judge for the PEN USA Award and the Arab American Book Award. He was a finalist for the 2010 PEN USA Award in creative nonfiction for “Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place and Politics.”

Nygreen Hall is located on the south side of Memorial Parkway near Pioneer Avenue on the Thousand Oaks campus.

CLU’s Artists and Speakers Committee is sponsoring the free presentation. For more information, contact Dan Geeting at geeting@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3311.