FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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the soldiers refused to protect the missions.
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wild animal attacks were common.
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the priests and friars were not willing to work with the Native Americans.
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the Native Americans were not interested in mission life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Missions received less aid from the Spanish government and few Spanish were willing to become mission priests. In increasing numbers Indians deserted and mission buildings fell into disrepair. Mexican independence led to the final demise of California’s mission system.
Detailed explanation-2: -They were put to work tending mission farms, livestock, and facilities and discouraged-in some cases prohibited-from leaving their home mission. Many were converted; many died of European diseases to which they had no immunity; and many became dependent upon the missions for subsistence and shelter.
Detailed explanation-3: -The native Indians who occupied the region were initially resistant to the mission. In 1775, hundreds of local Tipai-Ipai Indians attacked and burned the San Diego Mission, killing three men, including Father Luis Jayme. The missionaries rebuilt the mission as an army fort.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Chumash, as well as other Native Americans in California, “died by the tens of thousands and most survivors were reduced to a humiliating slavery-like conditions.”6 Child labor was very common in the missions, and Indigenous people were subjected to many different diseases brought to America by the missionaries.