SPANISH CALIFORNIA
“CALIFORNIA” Spanish lit.
Estevanico
Coronado
De Soto
16 TH CENT West
CABRILLO 1542 San Miguel First Lit. interest
DRAKE English, 1579 Negative Too cold Natives Religious rituals “ghosts” Exchange
Vizcaíno 1602 Renamed
160 yrs.+ Spain: no more Isolation Low status
SPANISH AMERICA Economics- produce wealth Convert natives Centralized control: no-democracy Difficult settle northern areas
SPAIN Politics+religion Diff. perspectives
José de Gálvez King’s deputy (1765) Russian threat Colonize Alta CA Unstable ? Assisted U.S.?
FRANCISCANS Fr. Junípero Serra Discipline, sacrifice Convert natives, acculturate them into settlers. ?: missions
Portolá
“SACRED EXPEDITION” First settlement San Diego: July 16, missions
PRESIDIO Defense
PUEBLO Agricultural town ?: food presidios 3
Felipe de Neve, 1781 El pueblo de nuestra senora la reina de los angeles de rio de porciuncula “our lady of the queen of angels” “Los Angeles” “Angeles” = city of angels?
Alta CA: desolate Early settlers: convicts ?: Settlers urban, not rural ignorance of area CA Indians
RACIAL HIERARCY “rationals” “irrationals”
MISSIONS Natives: happy, mission life preferred Questionable
Convert, save natives
LIFE Education Punishment Women Assault
RESISTANCE Many resisted Passive violence
MISSION? Mission period: 75% decline ??? Agriculture Indio labor
PEOPLE Majority: mixed Half families L.A.: part African
SOCIETY Patriarchal Scarce: Spanish women Mixing Rape, assault
Family: core
ALTA CA Little devel non-Natives (1821) Private rancho??
POLITICS Governor Military Towns Local, self-gvt.
ISOLATION CA: fringe Ex-soldiers, criminals
Explore interior? Mission Soledad (30 miles in) Little inland
FOREIGNERS French English Observations?
RUSSIANS Nikolai Rezanov S.F., 1806 Concepcion Arguello, 15
REBELLION
CAUSE? Peninsulars vs. criolles Indigenous oppression Spanish legitimacy?
Philosophy? Enlightenment Other rebellions Taxation
MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA Criollo Rebellious Priest Children “outcry against tyranny”
UPRISING: SEPT 16, 1810 Hidalgo: “Grito de Dolores” Revolt commences!
REPUBLIC OF MEXICO (1821)
CA Oblivious rebellion Backwater outpost
Garrisons, military loyal Spain
CA: Little comforts - supplies from N. Spain Presidios/pueblos vs. Missions
SIGNIFICANCE? Spanish culture into 19 th ….and today Cities, architecture Language