Children of Coyote, Missinaries of Saint Francis

by HACKEL, STEVEN W.

• ISBN13: 9780807829882
• ISBN10: 0807829889
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

In this examination of Indian-Spanish relations in colonial California, Hackel focuses on local events at particular missions, places those events in the context of the California mission system, and draws comparisons between colonial California and other areas of the Spanish Borderlands, New Spain, and early modern Europe. He explores the incorporation of Indian communities into the missions, their demographic decline, conflicts between Indian and Spanish notions of marriage and sexuality, Franciscan religious instruction, Indian labor, mission-presidio economic relationships, and the Spanish legal system.

Table of Contents

People and institutions of colonial California
Indians	p. 15
Spaniards	p. 27
Dual revolutions and the missions : ecological change and demographic collapse	p. 65
Interaction
Indians and the Franciscan religious program	p. 127
Marriage and sexuality	p. 182
Social control, political accommodation, and Indian rebellion	p. 228
Indian labor in the missions, presidios, and pueblos : economic integration, cultural resistance, and survival	p. 272
Punishment, justice, and hierarchy	p. 321
Collapse of the colonial order
The era of secularization : land and liberty	p. 369
Methodological comments
Father presidents of the Alta California missions, 1769-1833
Gobernantes of Spanish Alta California
Governors of Mexican Alta California
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