This was a project that Devin did for his history class at The Atonement Academy.

1. MISSION SAN FERNANDO
DE LA ESPADA
Mission Persuasion Presentation
By Devin Gonzalez

2. THE MEANING OF
ESPADA
 Mission Espada has a meaning to it.
 Espada means SWORD.

3. When it was founded
Mission Espada was
fist found in the year
1690.
In the year 1731 the
mission was moved
to San Antonio and
renamed as Mission
Espada.
This was the very first mission in San Antonio

4. Enviroment
 The Mission was very
large and spacious, there
were many trees in that
surrounded it and gave it
a lot of shade.
 The only way to get
water was to go to the
nearest river

5. The Natives
 The Native Indians were
the “Nabedache’’ it means
‘blackberry place’ in the
caddo language.
 These Indians were not
friendly.
 When the Mission was
moved to San Antonio the
Coahuiltecan Indians were
friendly Indians.

6. Transportation
 The people
that lived in
the Mission
got around
by
walking, usin
g
horses, oxen,
mules

7. Structure
 The structure on the
Mission was mostly
made of bricks and
large pieces of
wood that framed
the doors and
windows.

8. Resources
 There was not
that many
natural
recourses but
there was water
and soil.
 The aqueducts
where built to
water the
farmland

9. FOOD
 The things they used to get food was using
oxen, mules for there farming.
 They ate there livestock and wheat and
maze.

10. WEATHER
 THE weather in Mission Espada was never
to hot or cold it was warm and cool.

11. THINGS TO DO
 In Mission Espada
you needed to
farm to get food.
 You also needed
to farm and work
in the fields.
 Guard the Mission
from the enemy
Indians.

12. THINGS TO DO
 They also did
their own
blacksmithing

13. SIGNIFICANT
The one thing
that interesting
is that there
are three main
bells on top of
the church
This Mission
was the only
one to make
there own
bricks

14. MISSION LIFE
 The Mission Espada you would be able to
go to school at the Mission and there in a
church for you to go to mass.
 The missionaries strove to make life in the
mission resemble that of Spanish villages.
They taught mission Indians specific
vocations like carpentry, masonry, and
stonecutting.

15. THE CONVENT
 The Mission
had a convent
for the nuns.
 The nuns
would teach
the children.
 The church
was fairly
small.

16. OTHER INDIANS
 Some of the other Indians where the apache
and the Coahuiltecan.
 The Coahuiltecan where friendly Indians
the apache were not friendly.

17. MY WEBSITES
 http://www.nps.gov/saan/planyourvisit/espada.htm
 http://ww.rickdenney.com/texas.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimnix/4878500111/
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-
photo/mikeandkelsey/4/1268341899/mission-san-jose---
rose-window.jpg/tpod.html
http://sometimessophia.blogspot.com/2009/03/san-antonio-
day-three-and-corpus.html
http://www.teacheroz.com/Texas_History.htm
http://herenow.7beats.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
 Live Pictures : By Devin Gonzalez

18. HOPED YOU ENJOYED

19.  THE
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