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Padres were priests who worked in the missions.
Over the next 250 years, the soldiers and priests traveled north and started missions. Priests wanted to convert American Indians to Roman Catholicism. Other European nations sent explorers and settlers to the Americas. The spanish wanted to stop these nations from claiming land.
Missionaries, priests, padres, and many numbers of Native Americans lived in California missions.
1769
Missions
1769
They helped natives learn Christianity
There were several groups at the missions. The priests were at the missions, Native American tribes( once they converted they weren't allowed to leave), and 5-6 soldiers. The Native Americans were often mistreated by both the priests and the soldiers.
they boss indians around
So they could molest children?