missions and presidios. mission- a settlement set up in indian territory by friars goal of missions...
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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