To all Native Indians looking for a place to relocate, you should consider the San Francisco de Asis Mission. The mission will teach you the Catholic religion, provided you with shelter, food, and how to live a Spanish life style. The mission has a beautiful garden for planting fruit and vegetables. There is a variety of livestock as well, like cattle, sheep, horses and mules. There are many friendly Indian tribes living nearby to trade your goods with. In addition, there is a variety of wildlife, such as deer, wild birds, fish and clams.

LOCATION
The San Francisco de Asis Mission is located in Alta California, between Lake Dolores and the San Francisco Bay.

ACCOMODATIONS
The mission has a new church, several pozole kitchens, a granary, dormitories, stables,

carpentry shops, with a fruit and vegetable garden. The missionaries will provide you with the tools necessary to make your own clothing, shelter, and meals.

INDIANS
The local Indian tribe is known as the Ohlone Indians. The missionaries refer to the non-Christian Indians as pagans, once baptized they were called neophytes.

HISTORY
Life on the mission was very difficult for the Indians to adapt to the missionaries way of life. The Indians felt like prisoners and often ran away but were later captured, returned and punished. The San Francisco climate was cold and damp, which didn't offer good conditions for growing crops. These conditions contributed to sickness and disease at the mission. Many Indians died from diseases brought over by the Spaniards,

such as measles and smallpox. The living areas were small, crowded and infested with bugs and mice, and very little protection from the weather.

TYPE OF JOBS
The mission people started their daily routine with morning Mass taught by the missionaries. After morning prayer and church lessons the women would prepare breakfast for the friars, soldiers and neophytes. After breakfast, it was time for work. In addition to cooking, the Ohlone women, made baskets, soap and clothing. The clothing was woven with an European loom brought to the mission by the Spaniards. The men were taught how to farm, care for the cattle, leatherworking, carpentry, blacksmithing and construction. The workers were given time off for lunch, and dinner. After dinner, there was more pray, church instructions and Spanish lessons, followed by free time.