Date of Award

5-1996

Document Type

Thesis: Open Access

Degree Name

MA History

Department

History

Committee Chair

Iris Engstrad, PhD

Committee Co-Chair

Louis Warren, PhD

Abstract

To understand the role of Mariano Payeras as Father President of the California Franciscan Missions, it is necessary to place the historiography of the mission in its perspective. Literature abounds regarding California's Franciscan missionaries and their charges--the missions and Indian neophytes. Few historical arenas can claim such easily traceable roots as California and its mission period. In many ways the early Franciscans emerge as the creators of a new civilization, largely because the aborigines kept no written records and because centuries of cultural change, disease, persecution and censure have limited what anthropologists and historians can create of the native past.

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