<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Spanish missions in Louisiana were religious outposts in Spanish Louisiana (La Louisiane) region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, located within the present - day U.S. states of Louisiana and East Texas . </P> <P> They were established by Spanish missionaries for Indian Reductions of the local Native Americans . </P>

In what present day states were the spanish missions located