Influence of Settlers on American Indians

They traded gifts but it was rare.

They got along well.

Sometimes the explorers and the California Indians fought.

Two out of three California Indians had died from diseases that visitors had brought.

They had to work hard jobs.

They were free to come and go.

Indians were forced to work and could not leave.

Some of them lost their freedom and their beliefs when they converted to become Catholic.

California Indians continued to suffer from diseases that the settlers brought

it brought many people to California who wanted to get rich

people brought a different idea about land

it made them rich

The California Indians converted the Spanish.

The Spanish helped the California Indians learn to farm.

The California Indians built many of the Spanish missions.

The Spanish left the California Indians alone when they settled.

They could leave the missions when they wanted to.

They were forced to stay and work at the missions.

They tried to get rich during the Gold Rush.

They had to leave the missions.

The products they made on the reservations allowed them to make money.

They were forced there by the California government.

Reservations had the best land for farming.

Spanish settlers wanted their land.

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They chose to live on reservations so that they could farm the land, and they signed treaties with settlers to protect the reservations.

They learned that the settlers were not going to live peacefully with them, and their populations decreased due to new diseases.

They set up a strong system of trade with the new settlers, and they built new businesses when the Gold Rush began.

Most converted when the Spanish began building missions, and they were forced to help settlers build large towns and cities.