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 * Mission La Puisima Concepcion **



Created by: Casper Wu

=== **Mission location ** === The Mission,La Purisima Concepcion, was located in the Canyon of Watercress. It was suitable because The Chumash Indians lived by and they had all the resources they needed.

**Founding of the mission ** The person who founded the mission,La Purisima Concepcion, was named Fray Fermin Francisco. The mission was founded on 12/8/1787.

**Building of the mission ** This mission was built with all the rooms in a straight line. The mission at least had 47 buildings. Mission La Purisima Concepcion was made of adobe bricks. The mission, La Purisima unlike other missions,was lined up so that people could escape when a earthquake occurred.

**Life at the mission ** The Chumash Indians, soldiers, and Father Most of the men went to the fields to tend the crops or to help with the animals while women stayed at the Mission and worked on chores such as weaving cloth and making clothes, boiling down fat to make soap and candles, and tending to the vegetable gardens. Children also helped. The indians cooked traditional food and made traditional clothes They usually ate atole and pozole.

**<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indians at the missions ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chumash indians loved at the mission. <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The indians Began the day at six. First, they ate breakfast and prayed. When they were done,The men went to tend crops and help with the animals while the ladies made clothes and other stuff. The indians that didn't live in the mission lived in a hut. <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Europeans wanted the Indians at the mission so they could be baptized. <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Indians had to follow very strict rules and if they didn't they would get some kind of punishment.

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