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Title: The Spanish in the Southwest
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Winterburn, Rosa V. (Rosa Viola)
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ndreds of Indiansthree times a day. Strange as it may seem, the fathersat San Carlos did not make much use of this mill. Theysaid that it ground out the meal too rapidly and left thewomen nothing to do. They knew that it was necessaryto keep the Indians busy. Questions. — What kind of a place was selected for a new mission?What supplies were taken? What men must stay at the new settle-ment? What two reasons can be given for the Indians learning more readilyto work than to understand the religion of the fathers? Who did the work at the missions? Were there many Spaniardsthere? What was usually their part in the work? Was there any rea-son for keeping the Indians so busy? What caused the affection between the fathers and the natives? Inwhat three ways, at least, did the Indians improve by their life at themissions? Can any reason be given why they may have been unhappyat times? What were the fathers trying to do for them? What was the probable feeling of strangers toward the missions?
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Locution of theMISSIONS OF ALTA CALIFORNIA SCALE OF MILES 0 20 40 60 80 100 Longitude 121 If from 119 Greenwich CHAPTER XVI THE SLAVERY OF THE MISSIONS When, in 1769, the priests were allowed to come toCalifornia to establish missions, it was with the under-standing that they should teach the Indians to take careof themselves so that they could be made citizens. Themissions were in existence sixty-five years, from 1769-1834,but they failed in this object desired by Spain and later byMexico. Thousands and tens of thousands of Indianswere taken into the church at the various missions alongthe coast, but very few of the neophytes reached the pointwhere they could safely have been made citizens. There were several reasons for this failure of the mission-aries to do what was expected of them. Tribes of savagescannot, in sixty years, be changed into a civilized people;centuries are needed for such a change. The CalifornianIndians were naturally very stupid and, worse yet, lazyboth in mind a

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