[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***His biggest headache was having to run interference with soldiers who wanted to do their own will and not comply with the rules established by Spain and the Franciscan order as to how the natives should be treated.***

I believe the Indios in Santa Fe had the same problem, a power struggle between the secular authorities and the Church tore the Indians apart.
So they rebelled and threw the Spanish out, only to suffer at the hands of their enemies the Apaches and Comanches. The Spanish returned ten years later to a much diminished population of Indians who then looked upon the Spanish as protectors from the Apaches and Comanches.

[Slyfox]

My favorite image of Father Serra is of him as an old man, within a few years of his death, working with some native women cutting cloth for them to sew clothes for themselves.

One of the things he and the other priests had to do was to teach the women how to wear clothes because up until that time they only wore something around their waists which covered their loins.