1718 onward
ColonizationBook sources
Spanish missions and settlement at San Antonio
Texas; local Indigenous nations
Spanish forts, missions, and land grants extended colonial control. The system appropriated land and sought to reorganize Indigenous labor and religion.
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Context / qualification
The effects differed among nations; mobile communities could resist more effectively.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 7