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Students of the Spanish California Missions, and their effect on Native American culture, should hasten to add this work to their libraries. Based largely on the registers of Mission San Francisco (known today as Mission Dolores) this well-written study addressed the ways in which the Indians of the San Francisco Bay Area adjusted to the advent of the Spanish missionaries. For the most part, Professor Newell argues, they neither completely adopted nor completely rejected Spanish Catholic customs, but found ways to combine the culture the Padres imposed with their own culture, sometimes using Catholic practices for purposes the Padres did not intend. Aside from a few minor factual quibbles (Newell refers to Concepcion Arguello's father as "Luis" instead of "José" and mistakenly claims he was governor at the time of Count Rezanov's visit to California) I have no real complaints about this fascinating work.
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