San Gabriel Research Paper

I have chosen to do my public field site on the Mission of San Gabriel for my research paper. The Mission of San Gabriel connects to historical events, starting with the Native Americans who lived in Los Angeles area, who were known as Gabrielino after the mission of San Gabriel. In 1774, Juan Bautista de Anna arrived and established a route from Mexico City to California. In 1779, the building of the San Gabriel Mission was build. By 1805 the building of the Mission was completed, however a tragedy happened in 1812 when an earthquake damaged the buildings. Once again, the Mission of San Gabriel was rebuild in 1908, but once more another earthquake hit in 1987. Taking it back to history, when the Native Americans who once occupied
and New Mexico expanded, giving Santa Fe traders the opportunity to deal directly with Californian ranchers. In January of 1830, Armijo arrived with 60 men and mules to pack woolen goods. Armijo arrived at San Gabriel Mission in California with his group unharmed, resulting of his men to rely on mule meat during their final days on the trail. In California, these men traded goods for horses and mules. The route was also used to trade horses with Chihuahua and St. Louis. With the Old Spanish Trail being born, there was finally a trade and a communication route was finally established between New Mexico and California. Separated by tough topography and climatic extremes, in 1829 a route was successfully opened, despise the separation of the two provinces of Mexico. Following the success of Armijos expedition, the San Gabriel Church became known as a profitable trade. The Spanish Trail lapsed after the War with Mexico ended in 1848, were there was no longer any need to link Santa Fe with Los Angeles by the difficult mule trail because other routes were
The Tongva arrived around 7,000 years ago and their culture they had was wiped out by the arrival of the Spanish. There were an estimated 5,000 Tongva in the region when the first Spanish settlers arrived in 1781. The name they had was lost due to the cultural assimilation into Spanish and Mexican culture, so they came to be called Gabrielinos due to the association with the Mission San Gabriel. The Indians were brought to small villages and there they began the building of the Mission. The villages where cities from today's century like El Monte, La Puente, Pomona, San Marino, Santa Fe Springs, and Santa Anita. The Tribe has been indigenous to the Los Angeles Basin for 7,000 years. The Tongva were enslaved to build the San Gabriel Mission in the City of San Gabriel and the San Fernando Mission in the City of Los Angeles. However they were denied there treaty rights. According to the “gabrielinotribe.org,” “In 1950, under the Eisenhower policy of Assimilation of Native American Tribes, the Gabrielino-Tongva were effectively terminated.” One of the languages they spoke was one of the Cupan languages. The natives lived in 50 villages, which meant that each held an average between fifty to two-hundred natives. Before the Spanish arrived the total population was about 5,000. The Tongva were the people who canoed out to greet Spanish explorer