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DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn J Farris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Under Spanish rule, the mission Indians of California were called “neofitos,” neophytes who remained incomplete in their transformation to being Christian subjects of the king of Spain. With the culmination of the Mexican Revolution in 1821 it seemed...