Talk:California mission project

Clarify
"Approximately 62,000 indigenous Californians died by the time the missions ceased operation in 1833." What exactly is meant by this - all on-mission deaths? excess deaths due to mistreatment or disease? Sheila1988 (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @Sheila1988 It was exposure to foreign diseases and mistreatment by the friars (beatings, overworking, starvation). I expanded the sentence a bit to add that context BaduFerreira (talk) 16:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)