Ask the Experts - Daily Life and Food at the Missions
- What is the main function of the mission and what specific trees were found on most missions?
- What was the daily life of a padre in the mission era?
- What was mission life like for the missionaries and why were the missions so important?
- Do you have more information on mission Indians who were blacksmiths?
- Can you tell me about weaving at the missions and its importance?
- Were Indians allowed to take communion?
- What fruit trees and plants did the spanish bring to California?
- What was daily life at Mission San Gabriel Arangel like and how was it built?
- Several questions regarding the life at the missions
- What was life at the mission like in the early days?
- What products are made at the mission,what are they made from,and what are they used for?
- Are there any documents written during the mission era that describe what the neophytes ate the mission ate?
- What was life like for the Indian children living at the mission?
- What work did the Indians perform at Santa Ines?
- What rules did the mission have?
- What was daily life like at Mission Soledad for both the Padres and the Native Americans?
- What foods were prepared eaten by the Franciscans at the mission?
- what did they eat at the missions?
- How many people lived in the Spanish missions and forts?
- Can you tell me if there were sweathouses on the Missions or were these done away with during Mission period?
- How many rooms were there in central quadrangle of San Buenaventura. ? What kind of fruit did they grow at this mission. What was the primary source of income for a mission?