VISUAL ACTIVITY Mission Carmel This eighteenth-century drawing portrays a reception for a Spanish visitor at Mission Carmel in what is now Carmel, California. Lines of mission Indians dressed in robes flank the entrance to the chapel where a priest and his assistants await the visitor. The Granger Collection, New York. READING THE IMAGE: How does the reception ritual illustrate the relations among Indians, missionaries and Spanish officials? CONNECTIONS: How did policies toward Indians in Spanish North American colonies differ from those in eighteenth-century English colonies?