Admin What were the California missions and what was their relationship to Indians?
The missions created new communities where the Native Americans received religious education and instruction. The Spanish established pueblos (towns) and presidios (forts) for protection. The natives lived in the missions until their religious training was complete.
What is an Indian mission?
INDIAN MISSIONS represented an important form of contact between Indians and Europeans from the 1500s through the 1900s. No Native group escaped contact with Euro-American Christians seeking to restructure and transform Native beliefs and societies into Christian ones.
Where did the Chumash Indians live in Santa Barbara?
Since the Chumash lived in Santa Barbara, they were called Barbareños by the Spanish settlers. The Chumash way of life was destroyed by the mission system. The Chumash lived on the coast of the Santa Barbara Channel.
What did the Chumash Indians do before the mission?
Life Before the Mission. The Chumash lived on the coast of the Santa Barbara Channel. They had houses that were dome-shaped, 50 feet across, and could house up to 50 people. The Chumash used bundles of grass to make mats and bedding. The Chumash slept on mats laid above the ground.
What was the history of the Santa Barbara Mission?
HISTORIC BACKGROUND Before the Spanish arrived in Northern California, numerous American Indian tribes populated the west coast. The Spanish originally established the Santa Barbara Mission to make contact with the Chumash people—California natives who lived along the coast between Malibu and San Luis Obispo.
What kind of languages did the Chumash Indians speak?
This includes languages spoken by the Salinan, Esselen, Pomo, Yuma and Washo. Today many scholars believe that Chumash languages belong to their own language family.