Stilly River Sage, you are probably familiar with stories of California missions who established large farms with slave Indian labor. Thousands died of overwork and bad treatment. This thread was started by one of the nameless strike-a-lights, but it has set several of us off on a pet topic. I remember in New Mexico in the 30s- 40s that several anthropologists there took every occasion to urge the Indians to preserve their religion. I don't know whether it was the result of this or a separate quarrel, but the council of one of the pueblos padlocked the Catholic Church. We chuckled over that for some time.