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An Apalache chief complained that Spanish ranchers were keeping Indian children out of school
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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DAY SCHOOLS AND BOARDING SCHOOLS Once the conversion phase with its adult education was past, the education of the young continued in the doctrina day school. Elementary catechism classes were short, suited to the attention spans of little ones. The older children, combining classwork with chores at the convent, were held in school most of the day, keeping them attached to the mission compound well after they had reached the age of being useful to their elders. Knowing the importance that Spaniards attached to religious instruction, Patricio de Hinachuba, cacique of Ivitachuco, couched a complaint he made to the appointed defender of the Indians about two officers who had started ranches in Apalache in terms of class attendance: "They keep the muchachos of the doctrina out at their cattle ranches, and although the padre ministro sends for them they are unwilling to send them back, and they grow up without knowing how to recite or hearing Mass" (Hinachuba, 1699). (Bushnell SS)
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