NATIVE AMERICANS

Native American and Mission

Historically, the social, political, and economic systems of Native American culture groups were tremendously diverse, ranging from hierarchical systems based on various social statuses to more egalitarian systems. Many culture groups were and still are matriarchal, matrilineal, and/or matrilocal. The Apache of the southwest, for example, trace their lineage through the mother's line; all children belong to the mother's family. Among the Iroquois nations of the northeast, women performed all of the agricultural labor and controlled the distribution of their produce, thereby exerting both social and political authority. Iroquois women were also politically active, as were women in many southeastern culture groups such as the Cherokee.

The task of Native American who lived from many different tribes and many different languages. Once they go to the task, they learn how to talk Spanish, practice a new way of life, and observe upgraded to a new religion. Some like it but many did not. Some are passive, while the other task of the Spanish attacks rage. Most of the tribes came out of curiosity task. They want to bring a small gift to their father: beads, clothing and blankets. In many cases, it was like a gift to bribe the locals of these priests to establish the first mission building. Many find that it is too late, once they set foot in the mission, they cannot leave

In the years of fierce debate leading up to the secularization of the California missions, a number of detailed plans had been developed for the distribution of mission lands and assets to the native Indians, which had always been the stated intention of the Spanish and Mexican governments. However, the actual decree ordering secularization provided above is notable for its stark simplicity, and for its failure to make any mention of returning mission lands to the Indians (Glover, 205-231).

Historically, social, political and economic rights of Native American cultural groups were very varied, ranging from a hierarchical system, based on different social states more egalitarian system. Many cultural groups have been and are matriarchal, matrilineal, and / or matrilocal. Apaches in the southwest, for example, trace their descent through the maternal line, all the children belonging to the family of the mother. Among the countries of the north-eastern Iroquois, women do all the farm work and controlled distribution of its products, thereby providing both social and political power. Iroquois women and politically active women in many cultural groups, such as South Cherokee.

Some Native Americans were willing to treat his Catholicism in despair, seeing that the priests were insured against "evil" that oppressed them. Others, called pagans, are not attracted by a new religion, and retreated to their tribes. Gaspar de Portola and Unit2 military, however, controlled those who rebelled. Converts who have been placed in the compounds of the mission to lack of food and water, as a form of European agriculture have been ineffective in the bushes. Continued harassment by the military, and transformation that go beyond the spirituality of the native ...