In the 16th century, European's nations that were part of the Roman Catholic Church were obligated for their salvation to convert "heathens" to Catholicism. They were saving "the savages" from themselves.
Mission Santa Clara de Asis was built in 1777 by Spanish missionaries to convert Native Americans to Christianity and teach them agricultural skills. It was also intended to serve as a center for spreading Spanish culture and influence in California.
It is not illegal to teach religion in America. However, through a very convoluted set of reasoning, the division of Church and State has been taken well beyond what the founding fathers intended. Because a school is an instrument of the state, it may not promote or favor one religion over another, or even promote religion over being non-religious. It can teach about religions from an historical perspective, but must be balanced and cover all the major religions, it cannot focus on a single religion.
The government cannot sponsor or promote specific religious practices in schools, coerce students to participate in religious activities, or show preference for one religion over others. Additionally, public schools cannot teach religious doctrine as objective truth or require students to pray in a particular manner.
That person would be known as a missionary. They are typically sent out with the goal of spreading the teachings and beliefs of their religion to individuals who may not be familiar with it. Missionaries often engage in activities such as preaching, education, and providing humanitarian aid to support their mission.
Santa Clara de Asis was a Spanish mission founded in California to convert Native Americans to Christianity and teach them European agricultural practices. The mission traded goods such as crops, livestock, and handicrafts with nearby settlements and other missions in the region. Additionally, the mission relied on the labor of the Native Americans to sustain its activities.
Father Lopez is a Spanish missionary who went to Alta California to teach his religion with the Indians.
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Their jobs were to teach the Catholic religion to the indians.
The padres taught catholicicom to the indians.
missions where made in California to teach the California Indians the catholic religion.
Father Serra started the missions to teach Indians their ways. His goal was to take them away from what he calls, "A vicious habit and weird ways" and turn them into Spanish people. When they first found the Indians, what was normal to the Indians (such as wearing little or no clothes, eating with fingers and catching own food, and other things) was weird to the Spanish explorers and settlers. So basicly, their goal was to change the Indians ways. Hope that helped you!
The Roman Catholic friars and priests also taught American Indians about family. They did not realize that Native Americans had an established and very good familial system.
Father Serra hoped to establish missions in California to convert the Native American population to Christianity, teach them European agricultural techniques, and integrate them into Spanish colonial society. He saw the missions as a way to extend Spanish influence in the region.
"To teach" in Spanish is "enseñar".
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Usually in "missions" built specifically to that end. Many of present-day cities throughout the Americas started just like that: a small chapel or temple where missionaries taught Spanish and Catholic faith to the Native Americans they encountered. Some examples include Santa Fe (New Mexico), San Jose (California), San Antonio (Texas) and San Jose del Cabo (Mexico).