How might someone have felt living in an early California mission?

Most presidio soldiers enlisted for ten years. Military life could be unpleasant, dull, and harsh. Soldiers faced years of hard work and constant danger from hostile native groups. The soldiers often did not get along with the priests they were ordered to protect. Daily life in the missions was not like anything the Native Texans had experienced. Most had routine jobs to perform every day, and the mission priests introduced them to new ways of life and ideas. The priests supervised all activities in the mission. They would often physically punish uncooperative natives. But, the missions also impacted California Indian cultures in negative ways. Additionally, Spanish missionaries brought diseases with them that killed untold thousands of natives. Prior to the California missions, there were about 300,000 Native Californians.

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