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The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations

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

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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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  • Lee J. Alston & Marie Christine Duggan & Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana, 2022. "The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations," NBER Working Papers 30251, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30251
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    • 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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