Spanish missions in California

provided a series of different difficulties for African-Americans. During the Spanish/Mexican period, there was a sentiment of different feelings

For my project I want to work with the Tongva people from Southern California. These people are sometimes are referred to as Gabrieleño or Fernandeño. The reason these people are often associated or referred to as "Gabrieleño" or "Fernandeño" is because they lived near the San Fernando mission and the San Gabriel mission. Although they associate with both missions a place they hold sacred is called Puvungna, it is located in California State University Long Beach. It holds special relationship to the

Colorado - also known as the Four Corners of the southwestern United States. Many people in the region still speak the Navajo language, as well as English. The Leather Belt was originally made of leather and strapped with eight silver “conchas,” the Spanish word for shells. Some believe that the Native Americans stole this idea from the Mexicans. Within each shell, there is a silver coin design that has been stamped onto the concha. In order to attach the shells to the belt, each

drop out his junior year due to a measles attack which temporarily affected his eyesight. Dana wanted to tour Europe but was unable to afford it. Instead, he decided to sign on as a seaman at nineteen years old, and sailed around Cape Horn to California. When trying to recall his motives for becoming a seaman he wasn't sure if it was his "desire to cure my eyes, my love of adventure and the attraction of the novelty of a life before the mast, or anxiety to escape from the depressing situation

United States who “arrived the day before yesterday” as stated by Vicki Ruiz. But as further described in this documentary, the Spanish were the first to settle within the United States in 1565. This misconception, along with other popular ones, such as Latinos refusing to integrate, neglect the contributions that Latinos have made to the foundation of this country. The Spanish came into the United States looking for gold and wanting to spread Catholicism. With the establishment of St. Augustine, Florida

contain the Native Americans that resided there. Building the missions were the “central to Spain’s plan, religio-economic institutions operated by orders of Spanish Priests to pacify Indians, convert them to Catholicism, teach them European skills and culture, and transform them into a laboring population.” (The Elusive Eden, 86) With the missions having land around their building, they planned to establish the Native Americans under the Spanish Law by converting them. In turn this will allow them to

other rebels. That wasn’t a hard decision. Maybe those Spanish should have just given us our freedom, you tell yourself. The Bear Flag Revolt happened because a small group of Americans wanted to be free from the Spanish who populated California at the time. The group was disbanded after a few weeks by the United States army. However, the revolt was successful in their mission of succeeding

Californio is a term used to identify a Spanish-speaking, mostly Roman Catholic people, or of Latin American descent, regardless of race, born in California from the first Spanish colonies established by the Portola expedition in 1769 to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, in which Mexico ceded

“hotel California” The song “hotel California” was released by an artist known as Eagles in 1976. The genre of the song is classic rock. It was written by Glenn Frey and Don Felder with help of Don Henley. California is the setting of this song, even though it used to relate the entire America. This song is all about the exaggeration of the American culture and some specific girls in America. In addition, it touches the uneasy balance between commerce and art in America. "Hotel California" is a

Securing Land; California Missions exhibit at the California Museum. We all know as Californians the historical significance the missions have had in California’s history. I will analyze the event through my own personal experience and through aspects pertaining to religious studies. The California Missions exhibit displays the motivations behind the missions, the impact on the native people through religious leaders’ expectations and cross-cultural clash. Although the California Missions exhibit is