Summary: Amerindian Women And The Spanish Conquest Of Antonia

In Sexual Violence in the politics and policies of conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California by Antonia I. Castaneda she talks about how Amerindian women were treated by the Spanish soldier and the terrible thing they were put through. In The Collapse of the Missions by David J. Weber he talks about the horrible way Spanish soldier treated the Indians and how they tried to “civilize” the “savage Indians” and the struggle the Indians faced trying to stop this horrible act. In Gringos, Greasers and the Southwest: Evolving Chicano Identity on the Border Region, 1850-1930 by Michael R. Ornelas. He speaks about what affected the way Chicano saw themselves as what impacted their outlook of themselves and how that form the generation to come and their identity.
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