Read your history.
I have, you should read it, in fact you are still living it, Mexico and everything South, is still there, and still haunting us.
The guy had nothing to do with the United States and never set foot in it.
He was a part of the ugly Spanish/Catholic empire, which gave us the hell of Mexico and Latin America.
History you say? Whose?
“They went to missions because they had few other options,” he said, since diseases devastated the tribes and the invasive plants and animals brought by the Spanish for agriculture overwhelmed native food sources.
Missions appeared to be “a place for them to rebuild their communities”, Hackel said.
Yet, according to Miranda, as populations grew they became “disease factories”. Historians estimate that hundreds of thousands of Native Americans died in the decades after Europeans arrived, mostly killed by diseases.
Converts were taught to farm, breed livestock and live in regimented communities. They were flogged for disobedience, captured if they tried to flee, and sometimes raped by soldiers of the local garrisons.
French explorer Jean François de Galaup de la Pérouse, Serra’s contemporary, wrote that the missions treated “too much a child, too much a slave, too little a man” and were akin to slave plantations. On several occasions tribes tried to revolt, until eventually new settlers took over the missions.
And no Mrs. don-o I haven’t changed my mind. I have read hundreds of pages from the mission records and contemporary records in Old Spanish. The story is there, people in the church just choose to ignore it.