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Missionaries, priests, padres, and many numbers of Native Americans lived in California missions.
His goal was to build missions in California and to convert the Native Americans living there. The Native Americans were treated very cruelty by him and abused. At many of the missions mass Native American graves were found by historians.
The Native Americans didn't really have a choice. They were forced (most of them). Many were killed when they refused to give up their traditional beliefs.
The mission system didn't treat the Native Americans well. They were beaten, not allowed to practice their traditions, and killed. Many missions have mass graves of Native Americans.
Missionaries, priests, padres, and many numbers of Native Americans lived in California missions.
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Native Americans lived at missions primarily due to the influence of European colonization and the spread of Christianity. Missions served as religious and cultural centers where Native Americans were introduced to new agricultural practices, crafts, and European ways of life. Many were drawn to missions for the promise of protection, education, and food, while others were forced to relocate as a result of colonization and displacement from their traditional lands. This often led to significant changes in their social structures and cultural identities.
The Spanish missions along Georgia's coast and barrier islands had a profound impact on Native Americans by introducing European culture, religion, and agriculture, often leading to significant changes in their traditional ways of life. Many Native Americans were converted to Christianity and adopted European customs, which disrupted their social structures and spiritual practices. Additionally, the missions brought diseases that decimated native populations, weakened their societies, and led to territorial displacement as settlers encroached on their lands. Overall, the missions contributed to the long-term decline of native cultures in the region.
The biggest differences is in how the three treated the Native Americans. The French treated Native Americans with more respect and many French lived with the natives. They traded with them and had good relationships. The British thought of the Native Americans as a problem from the start and felt that they should leave the land to the British. They did their best to kill them or drive them out of their native areas. The Spanish were even worse. They enslaved the Native Americans that they encountered. The missions they set up still have the mass graves of the Natives that worked on the missions grounds.
The missions didn't help the Native Americans. Many were killed by the priests and put into mass graves ( the graves are still there), they were not allowed to practice their cultural rites or to speak native languages, and they were required to work at the mission. I think even worse than the mission system was the government Native American schools. Children were taken from their parents and tribe to live at the schools. They were not allowed to speak native languages or learn the traditional things about their tribe.
The mission system did no favors for the Native Americans. It made them into slaves that were treated horribly by the church. Historians are finding mass graves today on mission grounds. As with many things like the missions they couldn't eat, worship, or dress according to their native cultures.
No, while many who are Native Americans are, in fact, North Americans, there are very many who are North Americans, but not at all of Native American descent.