inhabitants. The expedition then establishes a
military post to the south, St. Augustine. The first
permanent European settlement in North America,
St. Augustine will become a base for Spanish Jesuit
missionaries working among area Indians.
1568Jesuit missionaries establish an Indian
school in Havana, Cuba.
To bolster their efforts to establish a chain of mis-
sions along the Atlantic coast, Spanish Jesuits open
a school for the sons of Indian leaders. Located in
Havana, Cuba, the school teaches Spanish and the
Catholic faith in order to train the boys to assist
mission priests. The Jesuits take some of their best
students to Spain to impress them with the coun-
try’s grandeur and population. The priests hope
that after returning home the boys will share stories
about Spain’s power and thus help intimidate their
people into submission.1571Indian convert Don Luis leads a revolt
against Jesuit missionaries.
An early convert, baptized Don Luis, leads a re-
volt against Spanish Jesuits. The missionaries wereA Theodore de Bry engraving of Timucua women weeping for their dead after the Spanish conquest. The work is
based on a painting by Jacques Le Moyne, the first European artist to depict Indians from life. (Neg. no. 324285,
Photo by Rota, courtesy the Library, American Museum of Natural History)