Civil War Behind Mission San Luis Obispo 1813-1823

Summary

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.

Through the economic lens, Missions I: 1769-1810 were different than Missions II: 1811-1834. In Missions I, production on missions was by and for native congregations, native people moved back and forth between the space of the unconverted and the mission, native languages predominated, traditional economics coexisted with farming. After 1815, more native people left missions, taking their livestock with them, and those who remained loyal to missions took the lead in going deep into the interior to bring back by force the rebels and unconverted allies. The loss of funding from Spain for the military in 1810 is the cause of change in the Spanish-Indian relationship by 1815. Using Sherbourne Cook's Expeditions to the Interior, as well as data on trade between California and the Pacific Rim, I consider the transition of missions from communal Missions I to exploiration (Missions II).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow