Essay On Mission San Brutura

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Mission San Buenaventura
The missions of California were big things in California’s history. The building of the missions caused lots of events to happen in California. The missions started the small, to very large populations of California.

Mission Facts

The Mission San Buenaventura is the 9th mission in the chain of missions. ( The chain of missions is the 21 Spanish missions along the coast of California from San Diego to San Francisco. ) The mission was supposed to be 3rd, then delayed for 13 years.
Mission San Buenaventura is located along the Coast of Southern California in the city we now know as Ventura, California.
Mission San Buenaventura was built by water to attract merchant ships. ( San Buenaventura is also known …show more content…

The Chumash Indians lived near when the Franciscan order of priests/padres came to California to build the mission. There were also Spanish soldiers that lived on the mission.
The Chumash Indian men were hard - workers on the mission. They had to learn Christianity and how to read, write, and speak Spanish. The men also learned how to do leatherwork, woodworking ( The making of things made out of wood ) , and blacksmithing. ( Blacksmithing is the use of a hammer and an anvil to make tools like nails, screws, and horseshoes. ) Adobe tiles and bricks were also made for building. ( Adobe is a mixture of mud, clay, straw, and sometimes animal manure. )
The Chumash women were in charge of many chores on the mission. They’re even sometimes more busy than the men. They were supposed to cook food, wash clothing in the lavenderia, (a pit made of bricks to pour water in, then wash clothes.) and do basket and blanket weaving. The Chumash women also made candles and soap with tallow or lard. ( Tallow is melted cow fat and lard is melted pig fat. ) Both men and women did farming and animal raising. They raised grapes for wine, barley, oats, and olives for olive …show more content…

They helped the women weave baskets and blankets. The children also kept the birds and animals away from crops and wet adobe. Like the men and women, they also had to learn Spanish and Christianity.
A typical mission day might have looked like this:

Sunrise - Everyone wakes up and went to the mission church to sing and pray.
1 hour later - A bell is rung for breakfast.
7 A.M. - A bell was rung to send Indians to work.
12 P.M. (noon) - 2 P.M. - Indians ate their meal and had rest, or siesta.
2 P.M. - Everyone went back to

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