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1910 - A Mission Record Of The California Indians; Putnam, Kroeber
1910 - A Mission Record Of The California Indians; Putnam, Kroeber
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
The Mission Record of the California Indians was in response to a list of questions sent to Alta California in 1811 by the Spanish government of Mexico. The “interrogatorio” was answered at the various missions, the replies collected and prefaced by the president of the mission with a short general statement or abstract of the answers received to each question and then presumably forwarded to Mexico with a copy retained in the archives of the Santa Barbara Mission.
1912 - The Missions Of California And The Old Southwest, Jesse S. Hildrup
1912 - The Missions Of California And The Old Southwest, Jesse S. Hildrup
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
A publication exhorting the glory of the California and Old Southwest missions, the golden climate and the efforts by the padres to save the Indian from his primitive life and ultimately prepare them for the civilization which came later under American sovereignty. The author viewed the region as the "chosen land, so wonderfully endowed by Nature, made possible the spiritual and civilizing purposes of the Church by the very configuration of its surface, the fertility of its soil, its temperate and subtropical climates, and its abundant water, which were stored in natural reservoirs and available for lowland cultivation by the …