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The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations

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  • Lee J. Alston
  • Marie Christine Duggan
  • Julio A. Ramos Pastrana

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We explore the long-run impact of the Spanish missions on Native American outcomes in the early twentieth 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 United States to persist as reservations into the twentieth 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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  • Lee J. Alston & Marie Christine Duggan & Julio A. Ramos Pastrana, 2023. "The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations," Journal of Historical Political Economy, now publishers, vol. 2(4), pages 527-551, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlhpe:115.00000039
    DOI: 10.1561/115.00000039
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    Keywords

    Missions; Native Americans; Southwest U.S.; reservations; organizational behavior;
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    JEL classification:

    • N11 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
    • N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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