California's Outpost: Spanish Missions and Global Influence

This essay examines the history of Spanish missions in California, focusing on their establishment by Franciscan priests and their role in the Spanish Empire. The paper analyzes the missions' impact on Native Californians, including the enforcement of settlements and the introduction of European technology, while also addressing criticisms of oppression and abuse. The essay explores the missions' influence on the economy, culture, and religion, as well as the negative impacts on California Indian cultures, including the loss of traditions and the potential for slavery. It discusses the decline of mission influence, the secularization of the missions, and the lasting consequences for Native populations. The paper concludes that the Spanish missions had a significant and multifaceted impact on California, the Americas, and the world, influencing religion, culture, and the lives of Native peoples.

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Introduction
The primary purpose of the paper is to analyze how California faced an outpost at the time of the
Spanish Empire. It will also discuss the impact of the Spanish mission on the rest of the world.
Thus, the analysis will help in gaining relevant information about the positive and negative
impact of Spanish mission on Native Californians.
Thesis statement
The mission of Spanish in California consist of a sequences of 21 religious missions or outposts,
where the native Californians were effectively enforced by the missionaries in order to stay
within settlements. As a result, Spain's king was imprisoned by the French in 1810.
Analysis of California's outpost on the edge of the Spanish Empire and its impact on the
entire world
Throughout California, the missions executed by Spanish possessed a sequences of 21 religious
posts that was established among the years 1769 to 1833 in the US State of California (Panich
238). The outposts were developed by Franciscan Catholic priests for evangelize the concerned
Native Americans. The outposts resulted in the development of Fresh province of Spain of Alta
California and became part of the Spanish Empire into the most western and northern parts of
Spanish North America.
Based on religious policy and long-term secular of Spain, the respective missionaries enforced
the Californians to stay within settlements known as reductions that impacted their customary
way of living. It influenced the rest of the world as the missionaries announced European
technology, ranching, horses, cattle, vegetables, and fruits to various regions. The outposts have
been accused by critics based on various oppression and abuses. Lastly, the outposts possess
varied outcomes in their aims to transform, teach, and convert the natives to the Spanish colonial
citizens (Reddy 48). These outcomes, based on the outposts, directly influenced the entire world.
In 1806, entire of 20,355 natives were associated with the mission of California, whereas the
number increased to 21,066 under Mexican rule. From 1769 to 1834, at the time of the entire
period of rule around 53,600 adult Indians were immersed and 37,000 were buried by the
Franciscans (Duggan 23). According to Dr.Cook, approximately 45% or 15,250 population

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decreased due to the occurrence of disease as it caused many deaths in the year 1806 and 1828.
As a result, the mission influenced the economy, language, art, architecture, religion, and culture
of the entire world (Paldam 596). It negatively influenced California India cultures. As the
Europeans enforced the natives to convert their civilization with the aspects of the match world.
Within the process, customs, cultures, and local traditions were lost. On the other hand, the
mission system of Spanish also enforced the Native Americans into slavery by linking the
missions to concentration camps.
However, in 1810 the French imprisoned Spain's king, thus the outposts in California and
financing for military payroll ceased. On the other hand, Mexico got independence from Spain in
1821, even though until 1824, Mexico not sent a governor to California then only a part of
payroll was reinstalled (Panich and Schneider 48). Moreover, the 21,000 Mission Indians
manufactured textiles, wool, tallow, hide during this time, and the leather items were distributed
to Asia, South America, and Boston. From 1810 to 1830, it sustained the colonial economy but
intended to give importance to New England or British merchant captains. In the 1820s the
outposts initiated to lose grip over land as the free military men encroached illegally. Whereas,
until the 1820's the official outposts maintained control of land holdings along with the authority
over native neophytes.
Meanwhile, 1832, during the top phase of its expansion the coastal mission scheme has
organized a part equivalent to 1/6th of Alta California. However, after the way of the Mexican
secularization act of 1833, the Alta California government secularized the missions (Johnson
2121). This resulted in a separation of the mission land within land grants that led to completing
and legitimizing the transformation of Indian congregation lands to the military commanders
along. As per the scholars at the beginning of the California missions there possess 300,000
Native Californians, whereas by 1834 there remained only 20,000 of the Native Californians.
Therefore, the outposts influenced the Catholic religion as well as the European culture.
Conclusion
Therefore, based on the thesis statement, the paper concluded that the Spanish mission-
influenced not only the Native Californians but also the Native Indians, Americans, and
Mexicans. Outposts directly influenced the entire world in various ways. Therefore, the mission
charged systematic oppression of Native Americans that led to slavery.

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