Analyzing 18th Century Lifeways of Anza Expedition Members in Northwestern Sinaloa & Southwestern Sonora Mexico

This report was assembled by a team at the University of Arizona to provide ethnographic and ethnohistorical information to interpret and define preexisting lifeways of the people who settled San Francisco. These founders were selected, organized, educated, and guided to San Francisco by Juan Bautista de Anza (Anza). This study is especially focused on why Anza selected potential founders, why founders would have gone on this settlement journey, and what lifeways the founders would have carried with them—mostly in their heads.