Missions and Presidios

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Missions and Presidios
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• Mission- a settlement set up in Indian territory
  by friars
• Goal of missions was to transform Native
  Americans into Christians and loyal Spanish
  subjects
• Believed process would take 10yrs
• Hoped that mission by mission that Texas would
  become Spanish
• Presidio- forts that protected a mission

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Missions in Texas

• Corpus Christi de la Ysleta
• San Francisco de los Tejas
• Santisimo Nombre de Maria
• San Antonio de Valero
• La Bahia
• Nacogdoches
• Santa Cruz de San Saba

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Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

• Built in 1682 among the Tigua people
• Set up near present day El Paso
• Rebuilt several times in 1740 1829(floods) and
  in 1907 (fire)

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San Francisco de los Tejas and Santisimo Nombre
de Maria

• Alonso de Leon and Father Damian Massanet
  establish 1st mission in East Texas in 1690
• 2nd mission was Nombre de Maria also in 1690
• Hasinai people who were a group of Caddo Indians
  were in area of mission

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• Never took to the teachings of the friars
• Spanish diseases killed many and floods destroyed
  their crops
• Indians blamed these occurences on the Spanish
  and plotted to kill them
• Spanish destroy mission and head west
• Come back to East Texas in 1716 and establish a
  mission at Nacogdoches

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San Antonio de Valero

• Established in 1718
• Good halfway point between Rio Grande and East
  Texas
• Would later be known as the Alamo

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La Bahia

• Established in 1722
• Spanish attempt to regain control of East Texas
• Moved twice , finally settling at Goliad

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Santa Cruz de San Saba

• Established in 1757 and built for Lipan Apaches
• Apaches agreed to convert to Christianity if
  Spain protected them from Comanches
• Was actually located in Comanche lands
• Apaches hoped to start a war b/w the Spanish and
  Comanches
• Was burned down in 1758 by 2,000 Comanche,
  Wichita, and Tonkawas