Notes on the Jesuit Relations, Baja California
Tr and Ed, Ernest J. Burrus, S.J. (Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop, 1984)
p. 25: "I grant to the commander and to the soldiers under him authorization to enter the land in order to effect the conquest and conversion of the natives."
-Viceroy Montezuma, 1697.
p. 27: Indians shown how to build better houses and raise "more abundant and reliable crops"
Salvatierra as well as the Indians got sick in epidemics.
p. 37: only three missions founded in last thirty years: S. Gertrudis, San Borja, and Santa Maria/"Mission Impossible"
p. 46: "In a very true sense, the good begun in 1697 by Salvatierra...has persister through the years into the present."
p. 54: Cochimi became Christians gladly; the Guaycura did not
"the native has not spoken for himself"
Hah!
p. 79: Santa Agueda: "excellent spring, lush reeds, pastures and so on" North of Mulege
Piccolo reports this.
Nearby the folk of Santa Lucia gave mescal hearts in abundance; others gave the Spanish pitahaya
p. 82: fifty settlements nearby, and more in the north. The Baja natives recognized maize and some had been to the Pai along the Colorado who planted it.
p. 83:
Hierarchy and chiefs and paramount chiefs
A chief is summoned who gives some blue shells to Piccolo. Abalone, indicating trade with the Pacific?
p. 85: Prickly pears eaten in some places
"when the appointed missionary get here, he can tap the water,-an easy task- and, after preparing the ground, plant as much as fifteen to twenty fanegas of corn"- Piccolo on a northern site
p. 86: a feast of the deerskins, attended by principal chiefs and by orator-shamans
p. 90: corn planted at Dolores and irrigation water easy to get for it
p. 92:Captain's wife is a teacher and teaches Indian women to sew and to read
p. 101: Clemente Guillen refers to the natives' "former wretched slavery" without a trace of irony.
Within three leagues' space along a "river" in the Cabo area are 500 Cora Indians
p. 115: Sistiaga reports that the Cochimi of the San Ignacio region are hunter-gatherers always on the move
p. 119: don't withhold Communion from natives- give it to them as soon as they are baptized and instructed in it
p. 145: flooding wrecked the soil and then the stream "sank below the level necessary to irrigate the crops"
p. 148: catechists called temestianes, a Nahua term
p. 152: Irrigation ditch at La Soledad 2592 varas long
Indians at mission live on amaranth for the fall and on pitahaya when it is ripe
p. 165: Tamaral furnished livestock, maize, water, wine, brandy and eggs as well as vegetables to the half-dead crew of the Manila galleon
p. 177: also forty beeves, a hundred sheep and goats
p. 207: Mission Dolores had in 1743:
some cows
goats
a team (of horses)
a small irrigated field, a small vineyard
a canoe
p. 224: the missionaries spoke the native languages.
p. 243: soaks and sip wells
p. 245: shortages of maize and wheat
p. 246: No idols or temples among the natives
p. 251: migrants from the north bring new languages
the Pai!
p. 257: "No crop is so perfect that some cockle[burr] will not be found in it."-Karl Neumayer
p. 25: "I grant to the commander and to the soldiers under him authorization to enter the land in order to effect the conquest and conversion of the natives."
-Viceroy Montezuma, 1697.
p. 27: Indians shown how to build better houses and raise "more abundant and reliable crops"
Salvatierra as well as the Indians got sick in epidemics.
p. 37: only three missions founded in last thirty years: S. Gertrudis, San Borja, and Santa Maria/"Mission Impossible"
p. 46: "In a very true sense, the good begun in 1697 by Salvatierra...has persister through the years into the present."
p. 54: Cochimi became Christians gladly; the Guaycura did not
"the native has not spoken for himself"
Hah!
p. 79: Santa Agueda: "excellent spring, lush reeds, pastures and so on" North of Mulege
Piccolo reports this.
Nearby the folk of Santa Lucia gave mescal hearts in abundance; others gave the Spanish pitahaya
p. 82: fifty settlements nearby, and more in the north. The Baja natives recognized maize and some had been to the Pai along the Colorado who planted it.
p. 83:
Hierarchy and chiefs and paramount chiefs
A chief is summoned who gives some blue shells to Piccolo. Abalone, indicating trade with the Pacific?
p. 85: Prickly pears eaten in some places
"when the appointed missionary get here, he can tap the water,-an easy task- and, after preparing the ground, plant as much as fifteen to twenty fanegas of corn"- Piccolo on a northern site
p. 86: a feast of the deerskins, attended by principal chiefs and by orator-shamans
p. 90: corn planted at Dolores and irrigation water easy to get for it
p. 92:Captain's wife is a teacher and teaches Indian women to sew and to read
p. 101: Clemente Guillen refers to the natives' "former wretched slavery" without a trace of irony.
Within three leagues' space along a "river" in the Cabo area are 500 Cora Indians
p. 115: Sistiaga reports that the Cochimi of the San Ignacio region are hunter-gatherers always on the move
p. 119: don't withhold Communion from natives- give it to them as soon as they are baptized and instructed in it
p. 145: flooding wrecked the soil and then the stream "sank below the level necessary to irrigate the crops"
p. 148: catechists called temestianes, a Nahua term
p. 152: Irrigation ditch at La Soledad 2592 varas long
Indians at mission live on amaranth for the fall and on pitahaya when it is ripe
p. 165: Tamaral furnished livestock, maize, water, wine, brandy and eggs as well as vegetables to the half-dead crew of the Manila galleon
p. 177: also forty beeves, a hundred sheep and goats
p. 207: Mission Dolores had in 1743:
some cows
goats
a team (of horses)
a small irrigated field, a small vineyard
a canoe
p. 224: the missionaries spoke the native languages.
p. 243: soaks and sip wells
p. 245: shortages of maize and wheat
p. 246: No idols or temples among the natives
p. 251: migrants from the north bring new languages
the Pai!
p. 257: "No crop is so perfect that some cockle[burr] will not be found in it."-Karl Neumayer