Housing for the Families of Mission Indian Ciudadanos, 1822-1824

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.

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 like there would be a path to citizenship for the Indians of Mexico. In the February 24,1821 “Plan of Iquala” it was stated that all people of Mexico would be equal citizens (ciudadanos). Possibly related to this promise was the construction in 1822-1824 of new family housing in some of the California missions (La Purísima, San José, San Juan Bautista, San Francisco Solano, and Santa Cruz).

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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