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A Cross of Thorns reexamines a chapter of California history that has been largely forgotten -- the enslavement of California's Indian population by Spanish missionaries from 1769 to 1821. California's Spanish missions are one of the state's major tourist attractions, where visitors are told that peaceful cultural exchange occurred between Franciscan friars and California Indians.
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English
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After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or "The Royal Road." The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. Junípero Serra, the legendary mission presidente...
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
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English
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Describes the daily life of people who settled in the California missions, why the missions were built, and explores the reasons for the end of the mission era.
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World Almanac Libray
Pub. Date
2002
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U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
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48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
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English
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Describes the arrival of the Spanish in early California, their impact on the native inhabitants, and the founding and construction of missions there to support their claim on the land.
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Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 21 x 23 cm.
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English
Description
Describes the historic inland valleys missions and describes the life of the inland valley Indian tribes, many of whom were Salinan, before the arrival of the Spaniards.
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