The Effect of Spanish Colonization on California Indians

When Spaniards colonized California, they invaded the native Indians with foreign worldviews, weapons, and diseases. The distinct regional culture that resulted from this union in turn found itself invaded by Anglo-Americans with their peculiar social, legal, and economic ideals. Claiming that differences among these cultures could not be reconciled, Douglas Monroy traces the historical interaction among them in Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Beginning with the missions and ending in the late 1800s, he employs relations of production and labor demands as a framework to explain the

Why did native people in California remain hunters and gatherers for hundreds of years after European arrival?

Mercantilism is a theory that wealth is power. This theory states that a country’s wealth, and therefore its power, can be

There are many topic in this class I enjoy to read and know about it. The first come to my mine is about the California Indian. Why I pay attention to this group of people because we are living in California which is belong to the Indians long times ago and California has the nation's largest population of American Indians, As the book mentions “California's early Indians lived sustainably and close to nature's rhythms and balance" As the European came here and change the native Americans. Therefore, I willing to learn what the California Indian situation.

Events that occur throughout a period of time have an interesting effect on the people, places, and landscapes around it. In the course of history, particularly the history of North American Indigenous Peoples, we can see how events have influenced their way of life. Since the arrival of Europeans in North America, it is easy to notice how a singular event can cause shifts within indigenous cultures, communities and the landscape. Although shifts within and between cultures and communities can be good, the shifts Native Americans faced with the arrival of Europeans were usually not. For centuries Natives struggled to preserve their lands, culture, and people as they were slowly being assimilated into the new Euro-American way of life and colonization. In this, we can not only see the works of Euro-American hegemony but also the fight of Natives to defend and protect their cultural sovereignty. Throughout the course of this essay I am going to explore the ways in which Euro-American hegemony and the fight to preserve culture relate to the Laguna-Pueblo history in the novel, Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko.

For approximately 15,000 years, California was inhabited by many different Native American tribes. Some of these tribes include the Achumawi, Juaneno, Konkow, Northern and Southern Paiute, Shoshoni, and Yurok tribes. Landforms such as mountains and valleys separated these tribes, so it was rare that they came into contact with each other. Native Americans in California were much different than some of the Indians in other states. They wore very little clothing and rarely wore animal skins or fur, as it was too warm. Due

As a matter of fact, the Pueblo assisted with keeping Spain’s California military supplied as well as fed. At first, there was only a small quantity of families, however, in the 1800 the population grew to 315. Governor Neve gained

To demonstrate, the Spanish migration to California was not beneficial to its native Indians inhabitants of the region. Prior to Spanish contact, native Indians lived and settled in vast regions across California. California Indians themselves are also considered migrants to the Americas. A scientific theory suggested that all native people began in Africa, then spread widely across to the Far East of Asia and came across the Bering Strait during the Ice Age. As the Ice Age cleared, they began to move southward (Erik Lecture, 1/11). The Native Californian Indians themselves were migrants. However, according to the Tonguv, a native Los Angeles tribe, they do not agree with this idea. They suggest that they have been in California since the beginning

Places like Santa Barbara started to rebuild missions in a Spanish styled way to try and attract tourist attention. In “Building California’s Past…” by Roberto Lint Sagarena, he stated, the “enthusiasm for the missions also had clearly recognizable economic benefits” which made Anglos that more excited to integrate the Spanish culture into American society (Sagarena, 438). While the Anglos were eager to accept the Spanish past, they made a clear distinction that there was no connection between the Spaniards and the Mexicans that they have constantly rejected in America. They chose to ignore the fact that “many of the Spanish missionaries who came to California were of the same mixed ethnic and racial background as the deplored Mexicans” which meant that Chicano culture was not only being exploited, but the places where the missions were being rebuilt refused to claim them to be part of “Spanish” history (Sagarena, 436). In this built environment Chicano/a/x history was affected in a way that their claims to their own culture were apparently illegitimate to the Anglos living in California. White society wanted to tie the Spanish past to their own American history and sell it across the state to make others believe Chicanos were

Castillo, Prof. Edward D. "SHORT OVERVIEW OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN HISTORY." California Native American Heritage Commission. 1 Jan. 1998. Web. 27 Oct. 2014. <http://nahc.ca.gov/califindian.html>.

I think they had a great impact on colonization. Religious had a greater impact than Economics on English colonization. Encouraging factors for America’s survival include the effect of the Great Awakening and varied interpretations of this movement.

Believe it or not, before the era of European contact, the Native Americans in California did more than gather acorns and wonder barefoot through the woods. Too often the picture we paint of Native Americans is grossly over simplified and completely overlooks or deemphasizes their sophistication as a society. Before the Era of European contact, the population of native Californians numbered over three-hundred-thousand. Reflecting the richness and diversity of California’s geography, the native peoples of California were of a rich and diverse culture, speaking over a hundred different languages, and regularly interacting through trade.

California, nicknamed the Golden State, has attracted many an immigrant through the years. From the migrations of peoples thousands of years ago that led to the establishment of the many Native American tribes that populated the land, to the Spanish and Americans in later centuries, one wonders what attracted all to the farthest frontier, the unsettled west coast. That is until you delve deeper into what the land had to offer as an economic source. The year 1769 saw Gaspar de Portola and Father Saint Junípero Serra leading the first permanent European settlers to California. Before the end of the century, missions were established along the coast and towns were established, especially Los Angeles in 1781. The establishment of missions and towns began economic growth based on agricultural production and Native American labor that would soon lead to cities, ranches and local owners under Mexican occupation taking the same advantage to produce locally until the United States brought a wave of new settlement and industrial ideas that would sweep local trade and production into a new era of transcontinental economic growth, transportation and financial gains.

Indigenous people are known as the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, and their descendants. These people are more commonly known as Native Americans, American Indians, and Alaska Natives. Native Americans have been around for quite some time. The theory is that the earliest ancestors came from Eurasia over a land bridge. This land bridge was located in what is now the Bering Strait. There is not a very good estimate as to how many migrated over this bridge, but this worked well until the bridge was flooded. This migrating started taking place possibly 40,000 years ago. As these Indians spread throughout the Americas, they surely added some diversity to the country and then spread into many different tribes. They came to the United States and began as hunter-gatherers usually. Many groups also partook in agriculture. They worked very hard on working the land to live off of it. Farming today has taken their tactics and evolved them into much more efficient and beneficial efforts. The United States isn’t as populated by the Native Americans but some countries such as Mexico, Guatemala or Belize are. The different groups of Indians and different

First, when the Spanish colonized they already had the greedy visions of making California theirs regardless that the native Americans lived on the land. The Spanish not only took over but caused them to lose their culture and changed their way of living. All along the Spanish had the purpose to gain land and convert the Indians into Christians. Before the arrival of the Spanish Indians had a decent lifestyle. Most were hunter and gatherers and had trade with other communities, their own language, a belief system, and customs and traditions that made them unique from other tribes.