SPANISH MISSIONS IN CA.
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Paper Abstract:
Mission system as failed effort to colonize state, convert Native Amer., control land & labor through religion, politics & economics.
Paper Introduction:
The California mission system was an attempt to create an infrastructure for a society that never arrived. But the system did perform an important role in California's participation in "a major expansion of the capitalist world economy" during the 65 years of the missions' existence. From 1769 to 1834, when the missions were operational, the world-market involvement of the area grew extensively until, by the time of the secularization of the mission properties around 1834, California was an important "peripheral area within the economic world-system."
The missions established food-production centers near the best ports. In 1786 the first capital ventures, the export of sea otter pelts, began under private license from the Spanish crown. Quite rapidly the area developed, under the mission system, the initial stages of participation in the world economy;
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the years of themissions' existence From to within the economicworld-system The missions established food-production centers mission system the initial stages AfterMexican independence the markets for animal fats been intended for the creation inCalifornia It was an excellent idea in many ways names and an agricultural establishment that The unwillingness of the people of the two nations to people of them women and children The seventy-five years a total of Americans to California and thirty-five Mexico would have been far more reluctant to give upthe a much greater mark on the new culture From California But in the second half ofthe country Some kind of defensive measures were needed developed the mission-based plan for colonizingCalifornia at in the next world But the missionaries werealso plan The Englishsettlers were looking for with the later exceptionof the importation of slave the lands the whitesdesired or if necessary exterminated The Spaniards established bythe priests the natives would churches But abasic conflict emerged between essential especially sincecolonization was turning to deal withthem At one time for instance was very different They had fact unusually happy But the priests were shocked by declining to work because they Christianity andas agricultural workers Yet the priests had Indians were not starving and were not the priests were forced therefore is needed is to take thenatives into the mission There just was no and priests used nativestrength as the means irrigationsystems the early cultivation of semi-tropical fruits and valuable lands away from the missions The missionary plan hadoriginally included the with the spiritualwelfare of the people But when were to live in the settlementswhile the degree beyond the basics of immoral much as the priests had seen theNative Americans And G Purchasing Patterns of the California Missions in ca Historical California Missions Journal of the West Lavender David California A Archaeology Ibid Ibid Ibid David Lavender California A Bicentennial Lavender Hutchinson Michael LaRosa Food Supply and Native American Conversion system didperform an important role in California's of the mission properties around pelts beganunder private license from market factors Exports ofagricultural and animal secularization the production of animal products for export was aflourishing be converted and brought into the emerging societies andwithin a was the organizationof the territory's prime sites thepreparations for Spanish and later Mexican preparations to come to nothing By theUnited which had no chance of maintaining itscultural identity colonization plans of thegovernment and the Church proceeded at and retaining California or would have beenbetter able to part of its official policy from Canada and if the English were notinterested Russian traders his agentfor reforming the corrupt an inefficient colonial effort in though not their only one was to convert the pagan East coast of North America and the Spanishapproach to colonization government support from Europe and largely did English believed they should be converted but mostmerely believed they of performing useful labor According to the mergewith the arriving colonists in new settlements and the Indians was that theywere sub-human Galvez believed otherwise He held the Indians with a combinationof paternalism and coercion make themwork for themselves but the priests as hunter-gatherers and wereperfectly content to of engaging in trade As Hutchinson puts food production tolure Native Americans have begun show how much of engaged in the production of food along linesfamiliar to them system theywere developing In order to create a the general pattern San Gabriel's half-million acres the aid of the Indian labor The Indians of meal wine oil hemp hides or tallow that could never came Instead following Mexican cowhides for new England's and formersoldiers and Native American laborers would eventually take control mission's excellent grazing lands In the missions enterprise developed and theranchero culture which in the s looked on this resources and began to replace Its Origins New Haven Yale University Press LaRosa Michael Food Arlington Heights Illinois Harlan Davidson NOTES Julia G California TheH jar-Padr Colony and Its d ed ArlingtonHeights Illinois Harlan Davidson Ibid The California mission system was an attempt to create when the missions wereoperational the world-market involvement of near the best ports In the of participation inthe world economy that is some and hides expanded andproduction grew when Spanish controls over of agriculturalcenters that would serve as but no one followed upon it In the was exploited by the arriving Anglo-Americans In spite of good toemigrate and the unwillingness of the Native Americans to of Spanish and Mexican control of the area yearslater the land booms in the Southern part of the territory A flourishing culture there would either have aided the beginning of the missionary effort the eighteenth century the government was afraid that for this otherwise unwantedarea At this time the Spanish least as far as San Diego and Monterey Under intent on aiding the colonization plans The a life away from the repression of Englishsociety and were labor from Africa As for believed thatthe Indians needed to be be converted food supply for the missionaries' and the governments' out to be unappealing to the residents Galvez ordered that the Indians were tobe given possessions of found aNative American population that had enough water food and the un-Europeanattitude of naked people did not wantmoney having nothing they desired to misunderstood theIndians' lives and statistical analyses drawn to themissions by the promise of to resort to more coercive means ofgetting away the territory they roam insearch of food As place else for them togo Coercion of developing flourishing centers of agriculturalproduction that made them even began theplanting of cotton The missions newgovernment had immediately opened California's ports to foreign idea of eventual secularization Military baseswere the colonists failed to materialize a fewenterprising people had seen livestock and equipment were to be managed for their benefit production for export andconspicuous consumption with their enormous profits as the priests had the Americans took whatthey liked Archaeology Hutchinson C Alan Frontier Settlement in Mexican Bicentennial History New York W History New York W W Norton atFour Alta California Missions Journal of the West Ibid participation in a majorexpansion of the capitalist world economy during California was an important peripheral area the Spanish crown Quite rapidly the areadeveloped under the products grew during the period industry in a stagnant culture The missions had few decades Spain would have established itself firmly as population centers numerous place colonization of Californianever paid off States had possession of California and the colonists there onlyamounted against the new owners The gold rush of brought the same pace as the growth of thecattle export industry withstand the influence of the new American settlers andleft of colonization The Spanishhad never been very interested in might want to claim the land for that Mexico It was G lvez who Indians to Christianity andthereby save their souls is found in this mission thework of beating back the wilderness on their own should be removed by treaty from general plan the missions would be missions would besecularized with their chapels remaining as the parish that the integration ofthe Indians into the new colony was that they saw as the only way followed his orders onlysuperficially Their approach go on as they had been they were in it the Indiansembarrassed the white men by into their fold both as converts to a failure this strategyprobably was The could manage to survive But they could survive very welland food problem for any group of hunter-gatherers all that of landcertainly must have infringed upon native communities and forced were subjected to floggings and other corporal punishments be shippedto Mexico in trade for needed items They established independence the government engaged in increasingefforts to get their Britain's factoriesbecame a strong commercial proposal The of thelands as the Church withdrew to concern itself solely wereplaced under secular control The Indians developed flourished economically but neverdeveloped to any static culture as benighted wasteful vain undependable and theculture with one more to their own liking BIBLIOGRAPHYCostello Julia Supply and Native American Conversion at Four Alta Costello Purchasing Patterns of the California Missionsin ca Historical Origins New Haven Yale UniversityPress Lavender Ibid Hutchinson Lavender Ibid Ibid aninfrastructure for a society that never arrived But the the area grew extensivelyuntil by the time of the secularization first capital ventures the export of sea otter production process integral to largercommodity chains and responsive to shipping were removed At thetime of the basis for colonial communities The NativeAmericans were to end all the mission system left behind planning and the hard work of the missionaries cooperate fullywith the plan caused the had produced onlythis small beginning of a society territory finishedeliminating the struggling society If the Mexicoin defeating the United States government of Spainmade the system a the English mightmove on California by coming down king appointed Jos de G lvez as this plan the primary purpose of the Catholic priests great difference betweenthe British colonization of the usually interested in securing their religious freedom They received little the NativeAmericans some of the converted but also saw them as having bodiescapable colonistswould be assured by the mission establishments the Indians would viewof the Indians Though the prevailing idea of the of Spainand Mexico The priests however treated their own presumably as a stimulus to good weather tomake agriculture unimportant They lived who thought nothing about the accumulation of foodas a means buy The missionaries' approach therefore was to use of food production and rates ofIndian conversion food The priests simply could notcomprehend how anyone not the Native Americans to participate in the new economic LaRosa points out in reference to one mission thatfollowed eventually worked for the missions and they began toflourish with nearly self-sufficient and slowly produced asurplus were ready but the colonists traders and beef tallow and to be established nearby and the population of settlers the potential of the cattle industry andcoveted the Instead of course a system of private The Americans whobegan to arrive of the economic structure and California The H jar Padr Colony and W Norton Rolle Andrew F California A History d ed Ibid C Alan Hutchinson Frontier Settlement in Mexican Ibid Andrew F Rolle California A History the years of themissions' existence From to within the economicworld-system The missions established food-production centers mission system the initial stages AfterMexican independence the markets for animal fats been intended for the creation inCalifornia It was an excellent idea in many ways names and an agricultural establishment that The unwillingness of the people of the two nations to people of them women and children The seventy-five years a total of Americans to California and thirty-five Mexico would have been far more reluctant to give upthe a much greater mark on the new culture From California But in the second half ofthe country Some kind of defensive measures were needed developed the mission-based plan for colonizingCalifornia at in the next world But the missionaries werealso plan The Englishsettlers were looking for with the later exceptionof the importation of slave the lands the whitesdesired or if necessary exterminated The Spaniards established bythe priests the natives would churches But abasic conflict emerged between essential especially sincecolonization was turning to deal withthem At one time for instance was very different They had fact unusually happy But the priests were shocked by declining to work because they Christianity andas agricultural workers Yet the priests had Indians were not starving and were not the priests were forced therefore is needed is to take thenatives into the mission There just was no and priests used nativestrength as the means irrigationsystems the early cultivation of semi-tropical fruits and valuable lands away from the missions The missionary plan hadoriginally included the with the spiritualwelfare of the people But when were to live in the settlementswhile the degree beyond the basics of immoral much as the priests had seen theNative Americans And G Purchasing Patterns of the California Missions in ca Historical California Missions Journal of the West Lavender David California A Archaeology Ibid Ibid Ibid David Lavender California A Bicentennial Lavender Hutchinson Michael LaRosa Food Supply and Native American Conversion system didperform an important role in California's of the mission properties around pelts beganunder private license from market factors Exports ofagricultural and animal secularization the production of animal products for export was aflourishing be converted and brought into the emerging societies andwithin a was the organizationof the territory's prime sites thepreparations for Spanish and later Mexican preparations to come to nothing By theUnited which had no chance of maintaining itscultural identity colonization plans of thegovernment and the Church proceeded at and retaining California or would have beenbetter able to part of its official policy from Canada and if the English were notinterested Russian traders his agentfor reforming the corrupt an inefficient colonial effort in though not their only one was to convert the pagan East coast of North America and the Spanishapproach to colonization government support from Europe and largely did English believed they should be converted but mostmerely believed they of performing useful labor According to the mergewith the arriving colonists in new settlements and the Indians was that theywere sub-human Galvez believed otherwise He held the Indians with a combinationof paternalism and coercion make themwork for themselves but the priests as hunter-gatherers and wereperfectly content to of engaging in trade As Hutchinson puts food production tolure Native Americans have begun show how much of engaged in the production of food along linesfamiliar to them system theywere developing In order to create a the general pattern San Gabriel's half-million acres the aid of the Indian labor The Indians of meal wine oil hemp hides or tallow that could never came Instead following Mexican cowhides for new England's and formersoldiers and Native American laborers would eventually take control mission's excellent grazing lands In the missions enterprise developed and theranchero culture which in the s looked on this resources and began to replace Its Origins New Haven Yale University Press LaRosa Michael Food Arlington Heights Illinois Harlan Davidson NOTES Julia G California TheH jar-Padr Colony and Its d ed ArlingtonHeights Illinois Harlan Davidson Ibid
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