Yep, I have german double citizenship, and germans are forced to be aware of and deal with their history quite often. Keeping the Missions around is good, but americans really have a lot of work to do to create common awareness about our history, both locally and international interventions.
How many people know about the bounty that was placed for dead indians in California during the gold rush era? I'm 30, but my grandfather was both in 1894 in Nebraska, and they would send myf ather out to a ranch owned by his uncle in a roadless area bordering south dakota during summers. That was 'empty' land shortly after thousands of indians were driven off and killed.
I went to a Mission by Carmel with my mother when she just visited, because while germans have super-low church attendance, europeans are into visiting art museums and historic church buildings on the weekends. We ended up making fun of many aspects of the mission, including an ostentatious wedding, but while that mission had some artefact items to look at where you could supply the historical context by yourself, they could be doing a better job filling in the details of what life was like during the spanish period. Otherwise it become like if a few thousand jewish people were allowed to persist in a reservation ghetto at the end of the nazi period if they won the war and decided to enter into a more moderate period to pacify the population.