The Spanish missions in california differ from those in texas and new mexico, since California missions were indifferent with converting Native Americans.
<h3>What role did Spanish missionaries have in California?</h3>
The Alta California missions, also known as reductions or congregations, were communities established by Spanish colonizers of the New World with the goal of completely assimilating indigenous inhabitants into European culture and the Catholic religion. The first step would be to convert indigenous people to Christianity. The second option would be to pacify the lands in order to colonize them. A third goal was to acquaint the locals with Spanish cultural norms so that they might transition from mission to parish status as full members of the congregation. They were meant to be places of religious conversion as well as economic productivity.
