California Native American Survival and Resilience During the Mission Period: Middle & High School Edition

This inquiry lesson provides primary and secondary sources, maps, images, background history, and objects from our collection to offer teachers and students insight into California Native American resilience during the Spanish mission period. Students will analyze sources to answer the question, Native Americans of California during the mission period: How did Native people resist and persist in the face of extreme adversity? This resource is also available for 4th grade students.