Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the giant challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates textual and quantitative sources and weaves together analyses of disease and depopulation, marriage and sexuality, crime and punishment, and non secular, economic, and political change.

As colonization reduced their numbers and remade California, Indians congregated in missions, where they forged communities under Franciscan oversight. Yet missions proved disastrously unhealthful and coercive, as Franciscans sought keep watch over over Indians’ beliefs and instituted unfamiliar systems of labor and punishment. Even so, remnants of Indian groups still survived when Mexican officials ended Franciscan rule within the 1830s. Many regained land and found strength in ancestral cultures that predated the Spaniards’ arrival.

At this study’s heart are the dynamic interactions in and around Mission San Carlos Borromeo between Monterey region Indians (the Children of Coyote) and Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and settlers. Hackel places these local developments within the context of the California mission system and draws comparisons between California and other areas of the Spanish Borderlands and colonial The usa. Concentrating at the experiences of the Costanoan and Esselen peoples all through the colonial period, Children of Coyote concludes with an epilogue that carries the tale in their survival to the current day.

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