The missions in California were really bad place to bed especially if you were a non-Christian Indian women. Those women where savagely raped by the soldiers it had gotten so bad that the native people were resisting missionization and some were even becoming warlike and hostile because of the soldiers repeated outrages against the women. This resulted in the Amerindian to attack which the soldiers countered with unauthorized retaliation. War never really broke out between them the most that would happen is that they would throw stones across the river at each other with no intent to actually hit or injure anyone. Even among the farming groups like the Colorado River people who practiced warfare and took …show more content…
Both try to make the Indians and Chicanos think they were a savage uncivilized race. They had to overcome so many obstacles like their women being raped by the Spanish soldiers and how they tried to change their way of living and thinking. They tried to make them suppress who they were yet with all these they were still able to overcome these horrific