The first thing I want you to remember if your going to read about these missions is the California was not part of the United States of America when the California missions were founded and in operation. Mexico owned California, and Spain owned Mexico. Mexico before it gave California to the United states finally received it's independence from Spain, when they did this Mexico needed to put large amounts of money into making their government work. This meant they could no longer afford to pay for the cleaning and running of 21 missions that were further away from Mexico's capital than Mexico's more important structures.
What does this mean?
This means that these missions had to be sold like a car that a person can't afford to buy gas for.
The 21 California missions were owned as private property by regular people. Even though the Native Americans of the area were in all cases offered the land before it was sold other owners the Native Americans either never wanted it or could never afford it.
A Note from your writer: To my fellow readers and researchers of the California missions, Hello students my name is Nick Riddle, I am just another student like you and I want you to read my work not because your teachers or parents want you to but simply because the men and women I'm going to tell you about were real people and did a good work to keep the California missions standing and to make sure that you could read the stories I have to tell you.
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