. >> reporter: anthony morales is chief red blood of the gabrialino tonga band of indians near los angelese of self groups against ser -- several groups against serra's conn canonization. >> our people were beaten, tortured, our women were raped. it was forced labor and, of course, religion. >> reporter: the mexicana has held protest and has arkccused e church of genocide. >> a mix of coercion. a difficult thing to understand in the 21st century. >> reporter: serra said it it was a one-way street of sorts and indians who tried to leave it were found and disciplined, usually flogged. across the entire mission period, european diseases from which native americans had no immunity killed up to 150,000 native californians. >> they argued the pope by canonizing serra is kind of canonizing the whole mission system and accepting and even approving the kind of huge death rate that happened there. >> reporter: sankow at this z thinks the places of safety considered missionaries protectors. serra's revered position in history takes hold as the church moves forward with canonization. at the basilica,