Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850

Name: Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850
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ISBN: 9780807856543

ISBN-10: 0807856541

ISBN-13: 9780807856543

Edition: 2005

Authors: Steven W. Hackel

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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 enormous 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 religious, 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,…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English




People and institutions of colonial California



Indians



Spaniards



Dual revolutions and the missions : ecological change and demographic collapse



Interaction



Indians and the Franciscan religious program



Marriage and sexuality



Social control, political accommodation, and Indian rebellion



Indian labor in the missions, presidios, and pueblos : economic integration, cultural resistance, and survival



Punishment, justice, and hierarchy



Collapse of the colonial order



The era of secularization : land and liberty



Methodological comments



Father presidents of the Alta California missions, 1769-1833



Gobernantes of Spanish Alta California



Governors of Mexican Alta California