The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations

Lee Alston, Marie Duggan and Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana

No 30251, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We explore the long run impact of the Spanish missions on Native American outcomes in the early 20th century. Native communities who interacted with Spanish missionaries developed into enclaves which blended Catholicism with native culture. Some survived assaults on their property rights by Mexico and the US to persist as reservations into the 20th century. We found that having extensive contact with missions increased the percentage of Native Americans Catholic, decreased crime rates, and increased income from agriculture and overall earnings from wages. Surprisingly, we found no impact on education.

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Date: 2022-07
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Published as Lee J. Alston & Marie Christine Duggan & Julio A. Ramos Pastrana, 2023. "The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations," Journal of Historical Political Economy, vol 2(4), pages 527-551.

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