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A 6 page review of some of the early history of California as it relates to missionary interaction with Native Americans. This paper explores the work of Father Geronimo Boscana, Fr. Jayme, Fr. Serra, and Douglas Monroy. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: AM2_PPnaCalMission.rtf
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Our understanding of the early history of California and its indigenous inhabitants is based on a handful of accounts by early explorers and missionaries. Unfortunately, most cared nothing
about the indigenous cultures they encountered. Father Geronimo Boscana was an exception. Although he was focused on one goal, the conversion of the so-called "savages" he encountered to
Christianity, Boscana was also an apt observer of native lifeways and culture. Although Boscana had the same biases that characterized others
who took time to record their reflections on Native peoples, the biases of a white male from a completely different cultural and religions background, he took enough interest in the
natives of California to record such things as their ideas on the creation of the universe, how they related to their children, their marriage customs, their death and burial customs
and their belief in the existence of the human soul. Unfortunately, Boscana approached his subject as though they were his inferiors. He regarded them as a separate race
more related to monkeys than to white Europeans. Boscana did, however, devote considerable effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the
area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patterns, the types of housing they occupied, and their internal organizational structure. He also detailed their appearance
and contrasted it amongst the various groups. Boscana made careful study of the language diversity that characterized the native population of California as well, noting the existence of many
distinct dialects and the ability (or inability as it might have been) of one group to understand another. Boscana is also
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