How does word choice influence us, our perspective, and the way we attempt to communicate with others? How do the reports and letters of the Pima Uprising of 1751 use connotative and denotative meanings to portray the events? Background In the region of what is now southern Arizona and northern Sonora Mexico, Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino (a Jesuit missionary from Italy) set up a system of missions and smaller communities. In these communities he encouraged Native Americans to accept a Spanish way of life. This meant to learn a trade, become baptized, worship in the church, learn Spanish and gi Duration: 90 Minutes.