Agree with last post. Coatanoan ,Ohlone miwuk and others were living in the areA years before the missions. They were trained to do the bulk of the real work. Many lived near the missions. ..go to San Juan Bautista their cemetery is still there a few settlers and a Bunch of Indians buried there.....makes one ponder...they had no immunity to fight the introduced diseases.... I imagine the missions could be likened to a Alien invasion.
Native Americans did have good experiences at any of the Missions. To take a free roming people and confine them to a Mission and force them to work from sun rise to sun set would be a miserable existence.
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