Free Expression-Stories of Peoples: Difference between revisions
From WikiDemocracy
Jump to navigationJump to search
mNo edit summary |
|||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
[https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/04/1282022/-Indians-201-Indian-Rebellions-at-the-California-Missions by Ojibwa 4/3/14 DAILY KOS] | [https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/04/1282022/-Indians-201-Indian-Rebellions-at-the-California-Missions by Ojibwa 4/3/14 DAILY KOS] | ||
While it is not uncommon for some textbooks to give the impression that the California Native Americans passively accepted the missions, Spanish domination, and conversion to Christianity, this was not the case. In fact, the initial reception of the Franciscans by the California Indians was anything but hospitable. Resistance to the Spanish Franciscans was organized by village chiefs and influential shamans and this resistance was expressed through attacks on both the Spanish soldiers and the Franciscan missionaries. During the first years of the Franciscan mission program the overt hostility of the Indians slowed the rate of the establishment of the new missions and created a reliance on soldiers to protect the Franciscans. | While it is not uncommon for some textbooks to give the impression that the California Native Americans passively accepted the missions, Spanish domination, and conversion to Christianity, this was not the case. In fact, the initial reception of the Franciscans by the California Indians was anything but hospitable. Resistance to the Spanish Franciscans was organized by village chiefs and influential shamans and this resistance was expressed through attacks on both the Spanish soldiers and the Franciscan missionaries. During the first years of the Franciscan mission program the overt hostility of the Indians slowed the rate of the establishment of the new missions and created a reliance on soldiers to protect the Franciscans. | ||
===== Indians 201: The death toll in the California missions ===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/29/2088493/-Indians-101-The-death-toll-in-the-California-missions by Ojibwa 29/3/22 DAILY KOS] | [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/29/2088493/-Indians-101-The-death-toll-in-the-California-missions by Ojibwa 29/3/22 DAILY KOS] | ||
Indian people did not come joyously or freely to live and work at the new missions. In his book Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places, Peter Nabokov writes: | Indian people did not come joyously or freely to live and work at the new missions. In his book Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places, Peter Nabokov writes: | ||
