To Some in California, Founder of Church Missions Is Far From Saint | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From mobile.nytimes.com - January 27, 2015 12:55 PM


[California Amerindians] were forced to shed their languages, dress, religion, food and marriage customs. Thousands died from exposure to European diseases to which they had no immunity. Of the approximately 310,000 Indians in 1769 in what is now California, only one-sixth remained a hundred years later, according to a University of California historian.


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