1. OBEY
2. WORK
3. GO TO CHURCH
4. STAY AT THE MISSION
5. BEHAVE
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At the California missions, Native Americans were taught various skills and practices, including agriculture, such as planting and harvesting crops like wheat and corn. They learned livestock management, caring for animals like cattle and sheep. The missions also provided religious education, introducing Christianity and Catholic teachings. Additionally, Native Americans were instructed in various crafts and trades, such as weaving, carpentry, and pottery, to promote self-sufficiency.
Missions are areas where priests converted Native Americans to Christianity. The Native Americans would also be taught how to read and write in their own language in missions.
Spain built missions in the borderlands of New Spain to convert Native Americans to Christianity. These missions served as religious communities where Native Americans were taught Christianity, agriculture, and other skills to assimilate them into Spanish colonial society.
Once they converted the mission Native Americans they taught the Catholic religion. Basically the mission system kept the Native Americans at the missions as slaves. They couldn't leave the mission and historians have found mass graves of Native Americans.
The Franciscans established missions in California where they taught Native Americans new agricultural techniques and introduced crops such as wheat, corn, and grapes. They also provided a stable source of food, shelter, and work which encouraged many Native Americans to settle near the missions and learn agricultural practices, thus transitioning from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural one.
The system that significantly influenced the conversion of Native Americans to Catholicism was the Spanish mission system, established during the colonial period. Spanish missionaries, particularly the Franciscans, Jesuits, and Dominicans, established missions throughout the Americas, aiming to evangelize indigenous populations. These missions often involved the establishment of settlements where Native Americans were taught Christian doctrine, European customs, and agricultural practices. While some Native Americans embraced Catholicism, the process was complex and often met with resistance and adaptation of indigenous beliefs.
Spanish conquistadors and explorers usually were accompanied by priests who began missions to evangelize the Native Americans.
Missionaries taught the Native Americans at missions to convert to Christianity, adopt European cultural practices, attend church services, learn European languages, and engage in agriculture and other forms of labor.
They basically built missions, and later cities, and taught the native people of the Americas about the Catholic religion and persuaded them to pursue their God instead of the native gods that they had been worshiping for hundreds of years. The conquistadors believed that if they gave the natives the Catholic religion, their souls would be saved from eternal punishment and thus began the conversion from Mayan, Aztec, Incan, etc. to Christianity.
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).
they taught the Catholic faith
The Franciscans introduced agriculture to California by establishing missions and teaching Native Americans farming techniques. They set up mission farms and taught indigenous people how to cultivate crops, raise livestock, and practice European-style agriculture. This shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural economy was a key part of the Spanish colonial strategy for California.