Spain created missions in the colonies to assimilate American Indians.
What were the reasons behind Spain creating missions in the colonies?
- Spanish missions were specifically founded with the intention of converting people to Christianity and instructing them in the Catholic religion.
- However, the mission system actually played a major role in integrating Indians into Florida's colonial system's political and economic framework.
- Missions were typically founded near the villages where the chiefs lived and where the council houses were located, which served as the political hub of the local chiefdoms.
- A much larger Indian community contained many more buildings than each mission.
- The mission normally had a church building and a friary, where a single friar resided by himself.
- Friars typically served a substantially higher number of Indians during their visiting rounds since chiefdoms were made up of numerous remote satellite villages and hamlets.
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