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This was a project that Devin did for his history class at The Atonement Academy.
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MISSION SAN FERNANDODE LA ESPADA
Mission Persuasion Presentation
By Devin Gonzalez
Mission Espada has a meaning to it.Espada means SWORD.
THE MEANING OF ESPADA
When it was founded
Mission Espada was fist found in the year 1690.
In the year 1731 the mission was moved to San Antonio and renamed as Mission Espada.
This was the very first mission in San Antonio
Enviroment
The Mission was very large and spacious, there were many trees in that surrounded it and gave it a lot of shade.
The only way to get water was to go to the nearest river
The Natives
The Native Indians were the “Nabedache’’ it means ‘blackberry place’ in the caddo language.
These Indians were not friendly.When the Mission was moved
to San Antonio the Coahuiltecan Indians were friendly Indians.
Transportation
The people that lived in the Mission got around by walking, using horses, oxen, mules
Structure
The structure on the Mission was mostly made of bricks and large pieces of wood that framed the doors and windows.
Resources
There was not that many natural recourses but there was water and soil.
The aqueducts where built to water the farmland
FOOD
The things they used to get food was using oxen, mules for there farming.
They ate there livestock and wheat and maze.
WEATHER
THE weather in Mission Espada was never to hot or cold it was warm and cool.
THINGS TO DO
In Mission Espada you needed to farm to get food.
You also needed to farm and work in the fields.
Guard the Mission from the enemy Indians.
THINGS TO DO
They also did their own blacksmithing
SIGNIFICANT
The one thing that interesting is that there are three main bells on top of the church
This Mission was the only one to make there own bricks
MISSION LIFE
The Mission Espada you would be able to go to school at the Mission and there in a church for you to go to mass.
The missionaries strove to make life in the mission resemble that of Spanish villages. They taught mission Indians specific vocations like carpentry, masonry, and stonecutting.
THE CONVENT
The Mission had a convent for the nuns.
The nuns would teach the children.
The church was fairly small.
OTHER INDIANS
Some of the other Indians where the apache and the Coahuiltecan.
The Coahuiltecan where friendly Indians the apache were not friendly.
MY WEBSITES
http://www.nps.gov/saan/planyourvisit/espada.htm http://ww.rickdenney.com/texas.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimnix/4878500111/http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/mikeandkelsey/4/1268341899/mission-san-jose---rose-window.jpg/tpod.htmlhttp://sometimessophia.blogspot.com/2009/03/san-antonio-day-three-and-corpus.htmlhttp://www.teacheroz.com/Texas_History.htmhttp://herenow.7beats.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
Live Pictures : By Devin Gonzalez
HOPED YOU ENJOYED
THE END