Title: A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1810 (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No)
Publisher: Ballena Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0879191317
ISBN 13: 9780879191313
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New
Weight: 0.64 kilograms

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"In 1770 the political landscape of the San Francisco Bay region was a mosaic of tiny tribal territories, each some eight to twelve miles in diameter, each containing a population of some two hundred to four hundred individuals. By the year 1810, only forty years later, the tribal territories in all but the most northerly reaches of the San Francisco Bay region were empty. The change began when Spanish colonial explorers passed through the region in the year 1769. Soon after, in 1776 and 1777, the Spanish invaders founded the missions of San Francisco de Asis and Santa Clara, respectively."Over the succeeding decades people from one local tribe after another left their villages and moved to the missions. The story of tribal disintegration in the Bay Area is a complex one. No two tribal groups were confronted by the choice to join the missions under exactly the same set of circumstances. There was, however, a common experiential thread over the forty years; each tribe left its homeland for the missions when a significant portion of its members came to believe that the move was the only reasonable alternative in a transformed world. They were not marched to the baptismal font by soldiers with guns (cf. Cook 1943:74)."Although many tribal people came to view themselves as culturally inferior, not every tribal person was impressed by the Spanish invaders.... Most people held mixed feelings of hatred and admiration toward the missions. They struggled with those feelings in a terrible, internally destructive attempt to cope with changes that were beyond their control. Eventually even those people who clearly rejected the values of mission life capitulated, because of changes in their tribal lands, disease, depopulation, and the accompanying collapse of intergroup alliances...."This book is about the independent nations that once lived in the Bay Area and their reaction to the Spanish influence

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This work addresses the question of why the Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Area chose to be baptized as Roman Catholics and join the mission system. It points out that although they were kept in the mission system by force once they joined, they were not forced to join. Most people held mixed feelings of hatred and admiration toward the missions. They struggled with these feelings in a terrible, internally desctructive attempt to cope with changes that went beyond their control. Eventually even these people, who clearly rejected the values of mission life, capitulated because of changes in their tribal lands, disease, de-population and the accompanying collapse of intergroup alliances. This book is about the independent nations that once lived in the Bay Area and their reaction to the Spanish influence. It is not a study of the Spaniards, or of their motives and plans as agents of western expansion, insofar as they re-defined the universe of native peoples and limited their options for action.

Day in and day out, throughout the mission era, ambivalent native villagers along the mission-tribal frontier struggled with a choice - find a place in the new mission system, or resist its attractions. The decision to reject the mission system could be made a thousand times, but the decision to join a mission could be made only once.

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