California Indian Suppression

Modern America has established and continues to maintain a positive view of the California Mission System instituted by the Spaniards in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. This attitude has been popularized due to the United States desire to see their nation as a place of freedom, free of blame, originally based on Christian morality. The problem lies in that history has become subjective. Early historians denied the barbaric nature of the mission system, releasing …

…buy Spanish style homes or hate the Spanish for what they did. I only seek to inform of the truth, and ask that they represent it accurately. The Franciscan Padres who operated the California Mission System were largely responsible for the degradation and dilapidation of a native culture. Food for thought, would the California Indian population need to rely on Indian Casinos and tax-free sales on reservation had their culture not been divided and conquered?