missionaries

Then the newcomers arrived — Spanish explorers, Catholic missionaries, Mexican rancheros, California settlers — and the Chumash way of life was dismantled, their people enslaved and their traditions, culture and language forbidden.

Staff detailed Spanish missionaries exploiting the work of Indigenous people in the Bay Area to build California missions and congressional actions stripping Coast Miwok people of title to their ancestral lands, including Muir Woods.

We sip and think about the Spanish Jesuit missionaries who filled this spot long before it was a hotel.

White had been binge-drinking in Manchester before he stole a phone from two Christian missionaries.

His parents scrimped and saved to pay for his tuition at Alliance, a boarding school run by British missionaries.