Illustration by the Russian artist Louis Choris depicting a group of California "Mission Indians," Native Americans who Spanish settlers had forcibly relocated to harsh, convent-like missions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Here they are pictur
Illustration by the Russian artist Louis Choris depicting a group of California "Mission Indians," Native Americans who Spanish settlers had forcibly relocated to harsh, convent-like missions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Here they are pictured playing a traditional stick game, which would have been forbidden by the strict missionaries.
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