Spanish Missions

Hi, everyone.

Uh, my name is Sam Marquez, and I decided to

do my creative projects on the Spanish missions in California.

And so within this project, I really wanted to focus

mawr. Why?

There are three boxes here, but within these three boxes,

there are sub topics in which I go more into

detail about it.

I would also like to apologize ahead of time if

I speak too fast.

Um, within this presentation, because this website gives me a

time limit on how much I can really, um, talking

this presentation.

And so I apologize ahead of time.

So I wanted to just kind of dive right in

and talk about the first mission in California right here

in this first box.

And so the first mission in California was mission San

Diego de Alcala.

Um, it was founded in 17 69 by a priest,

father Junipero Serra.

And so the native Indians who were living in this

region were resistant to the mission.

And then in 17 75 hundreds of local two pi

pi. I'm so sorry If I mispronounced that, um, they

attacked and burned the San Diego mission in which the

missionaries, then rebuilt it and they were built the mission

as an army fort.

And if you look to the left right here I

included a picture.

It's a group photo of a group of Indians and

teachers right in front of the mission in San Diego.

And this mission waas located in what we know in

San Diego today.

And so right here in the top right corner, I

have a list of all to anyone California missions, um,

justice reference.

And then now we're gonna go into why did they

build the missions?

So why did they?

Why did Spain build the missions?

What was the purpose then?

Seeing the indigenous people to convert?

And so how exactly did they do that?

So what the missions often did was that they used

gifts and persuasion, so they offered protection against enemies.

So they told the indigenous people that they would offer

them protection against their enemies, which is why most of

those is just people decided to convert was because they

wanted that protection.

Um, I also included a photo on the left right

here in which some native Americans are baptizing themselves to

come, and it is stated here that it is the

first baptism in the state of California, which was dated

July 22nd of 17 69.

And so although the missions were successful in converting some

indigenous people, there were some who just did not want

Thio. And for those who did not want Thio, the

would almost forced them to, or they would punish them.

But even then, those who converted into Christianity and then

lived in the missions were treated just as bad, if

not worse.

Um, which kind of led to, ah, lot of negative

effects in their culture and within their people.

And so now I'm gonna move on to the second

one, which is the mistreatment in the missions.

And so indigenous people were mistreated in judgments included being

whipped, shackled, uh, pillow, pillow ride.

Jailed. They took away some of their food rations, which

means they would often starve them.

They would increase their workload, and sometimes their punishments would

often lead to death.

Now, because a lot of these punishments that included um,

kind of taking away their food often or not, often

it did weaken their immune system.

And so when the Europeans came and they started spreading

diseases to the indigenous people.

They died at an alarming rate in which it caused

an an incredible decrease in their population.

And so, after many, many years off, the indigenous people

being mistreated and their lands being taken away, there was

an end of the emission system, and mission systems were

supposed to be temporary.

They were not supposed to be, Ah, forever they it

was only meant to be temporary.

They're only supposed to There for about 10 years is

what it said.

And so now let's go into the end of mission

systems. So in 18 21 Mexico won its independence from

Spain and then, like a states here that there was

a debate on what to do with mission system.

And I'm sorry.

And in the 18 33 the Mexican government passed a

law that secularized and ended missions, and so California was

part of Mexico during this time, which is why this

is so incredibly important.

However, with that being said, the land that was stolen

from the indigenous people was not fully given back to

them. Um, some of the mission land and buildings were

turned over to the Mexican government.

And while much of the property was intended to give

back with a majority of the land, so in the

end, indigenous people didn't end up getting majority of their

land back.

They ended up getting some, but not all.

And so now that we've talked about the end of

mesh Sorry, Mission systems.

Now we're going to go onto the effects on indigenous

culture. What exactly did Spanish missions due to indigenous culture?

What were the negative effects?

So the main effects that the Spanish missions did, um,

for indigenous culture and their people was that their culture

almost died there within the missions.

Um, because there were those who died in the missions

because of, um, how people converted or how many people

have just died because of diseases.

Um, there weren't many indigenous people to carry out traditions

in their culture.

Also, because Europeans at the time forced the natives to

change their civilization to match the modern world.

And within that process, their local traditions, cultures and customs

were lost and also kind of what I've stated before.

They also didn't get their land back, and most people

would argue that they got some of their land back.

However, that land was stolen.

And so what was rightfully theirs was stolen and was

not given back.

And so I consider that to be a very negative

effect for the indigenous people in their culture as well.

And so now we're moving on to the importance of

this in California history.

So how is this important and in California history?

And this is where I would say, if we are

presenting this in a classroom, like if you're the teacher

and you're presenting it in the classroom, I think this

would be a great, um, time in which you have

your students do this.

Do this type of activity kind of right out like,

um what?

Why? You think this is important in history?

And so I kind of wrote my, um, own opinion

on that.

And I said that Spanish missions are incredibly significant, that

they affected a whole culture by converting most of them

to Christianity.

Um are specifically to be Catholic.

And even after the missions ended, there were still large

amount of indigenous people who did not continue practicing their

culture's values or religion.

Um, there was also a great amount of those who

died in the missions or from diseases that caused a

big decline in population.

And in the end, most of their land was stolen

as well, and about only half was given back to

them. And so overall, ah, lot was taken away from

indigenous people and their culture.

And so overall, this had such a negative impact on

them. And that concludes my presentation.

And the were excited is right.

Um, here.

And so, um, thank you guys so much for listening

and keeping up with me.

I'm about to run out of time, so I apologize

again If I spoke too fast.

Um, I tried my best, and this was actually very,

very fun and interesting for me to do, so Thank

Spanish Missions

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