Indians, Franciscans and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians

by Robert H. Jackson (Author), Edward Castillo (Author)

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  1996

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  Examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on previously unused sources to analyse change and continuity in Indian material culture and religious practices.