Missions and Settlements

1. Missions and Settlements

2. Missions always built close to a river if possible - Large common area Native American Garden Where food is stored

3. Purposes • Mission • 1) Spread Christianity to the American Indians & 2) teach the Spanish way of life. • Missions introduced livestock, fruits, vegetables and industry into the Texas region. • Settlement • Towns occupied by American Indians. • Presidios • protected the missions and guarded the land around to be sure there weren't any invasions.

4. Mission life • Every day started with prayer • Breakfast • Children attend school (including classes in religion) • Women wove cloth, molded pottery, and cooked • Men worked in the fields, learned carpentry, or blacksmithing • Supper • Religion classes for the adults • Prayers

7. Father Damián Massanet • The viceroy agreed, and in the spring of 1690 Father Massanet, three other friars, and about 100 soldiers set out for East Texas. • The first Spanish mission in East Texas 1690 named San Francisco de los Tejas • It was a crude log building and contained only a few simple furnishings.

8. San Francisco de los Tejas

10. José de Escandón • He is known as the colonizer and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander. • He founded over twenty towns or villas and a number of missions in the colony. • He is called the "father" of the lower Rio Grande valley.

11. Antonio Margil de Jesús • Founded missions in San Antonio: San José y San Miguel de Aguayo. • They were most successful of all Texas missions. • Margil is one of the most famous missionaries to serve in Texas

12. Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo

13. Francisco Hidalgo • Founded the mission San Juan Bautista. • Wanted to expand missions beyond the Rio Grande. • His efforts led to the permanent European occupation of Texas in 1716.

14. Mission San Juan Bautista