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| | Book Review of Native Americans at Mission Santa Cruz, 1791-1834, Interpreting the Archaeological Record by Rebecca ... |
 | | Allen asks, through the archaeological, documentary, and ethnohistorical record, if the missionization process, as epitomized at Mission Santa Cruz, resulted in acculturation (subordinated society is forced to change), assimilation (passive acceptance), or adaptation (active selection of new ideas). |
 | | Because each mission had its own unique set of challenges, researchers are obliged to understand how idiosyncracies of individuals and local history influenced the character of the colonial experience. |
 | | Later, when the mission was evacuated in anticipation of a pirate attack it was looted, not by the marauders, but by the citizens of the nearby pueblo of Branciforte. |
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