Religion in the Comics - 51

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2. Pidgeons?

The actor Walter and his family? Yeah, I'm nitpicking, but that's a really stupid error.

Everybody in here probably know this, but just in case: "saving" the Indians meant herding them together at the missions, where they died wholesale of European diseases, overwork, etc.

The individual tribes completely lost their identities. Eventually they were just all lumped together under the name "mission tribes" or "mission bands."

I lived pretty near the San Fernando Mission in Los Angeles, site of this monument. It should give you some idea of how that whole "saving" process worked out: