MISSION SAN FERNANDODE LA ESPADA

Mission Persuasion Presentation

By Devin Gonzalez

Mission Espada has a meaning to it.Espada means SWORD.

THE MEANING OF ESPADA

When it was founded

Mission Espada was fist found in the year 1690.

In the year 1731 the mission was moved to San Antonio and renamed as Mission Espada.

This was the very first mission in San Antonio

Enviroment

The Mission was very large and spacious, there were many trees in that surrounded it and gave it a lot of shade.

The only way to get water was to go to the nearest river

The Natives

The Native Indians were the “Nabedache’’ it means ‘blackberry place’ in the caddo language.

These Indians were not friendly.When the Mission was moved

to San Antonio the Coahuiltecan Indians were friendly Indians.

Transportation

The people that lived in the Mission got around by walking, using horses, oxen, mules

Structure

The structure on the Mission was mostly made of bricks and large pieces of wood that framed the doors and windows.

Resources

There was not that many natural recourses but there was water and soil.

The aqueducts where built to water the farmland

FOOD

The things they used to get food was using oxen, mules for there farming.

They ate there livestock and wheat and maze.

WEATHER

THE weather in Mission Espada was never to hot or cold it was warm and cool.

THINGS TO DO

In Mission Espada you needed to farm to get food.

You also needed to farm and work in the fields.

Guard the Mission from the enemy Indians.

THINGS TO DO

They also did their own blacksmithing

SIGNIFICANT

The one thing that interesting is that there are three main bells on top of the church

This Mission was the only one to make there own bricks

MISSION LIFE

The Mission Espada you would be able to go to school at the Mission and there in a church for you to go to mass.

The missionaries strove to make life in the mission resemble that of Spanish villages. They taught mission Indians specific vocations like carpentry, masonry, and stonecutting.

THE CONVENT

The Mission had a convent for the nuns.

The nuns would teach the children.

The church was fairly small.

OTHER INDIANS

Some of the other Indians where the apache and the Coahuiltecan.

The Coahuiltecan where friendly Indians the apache were not friendly.

MY WEBSITES

http://www.nps.gov/saan/planyourvisit/espada.htm http://ww.rickdenney.com/texas.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimnix/4878500111/http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/mikeandkelsey/4/1268341899/mission-san-jose---rose-window.jpg/tpod.htmlhttp://sometimessophia.blogspot.com/2009/03/san-antonio-day-three-and-corpus.htmlhttp://www.teacheroz.com/Texas_History.htmhttp://herenow.7beats.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

Live Pictures : By Devin Gonzalez

HOPED YOU ENJOYED

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