Californio
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Californios
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The treaty’s terms were supposedly proposed by a Californio matriarch named Bernarda Ruiz de Rodriguez, who persuaded the two men to stand down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Gutierrez, whose ancestors came to Southern California in the 1840s, grew up with stories of Californio bravery in the face of American empire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
As someone once pointed out, the great Californio families were uncommonly blessed with daughters, and these daughters sometimes married ambitious Yankees and took family land with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2021
Five days later, Californio representatives signed the Treaty of Cahuenga, near present-day Universal Studios, which acknowledged Mexican defeat in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
The Indians under Raymundo el Californio returned, completely dispersed because the winds and high waves swamped many of them.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook
The armistice allowed Californios to keep their property and promised “equal rights and privileges.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
The Californios won battles through the fall of 1846 in present-day Dominguez Hills, the San Pasqual Valley in San Diego County and the San Gabriel River near Montebello.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
A few Californios, aggrieved by that and the power grab resulting from statehood, took to banditry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
It survived the drought of 1864, which destroyed the cattle industry in Southern California, reduced the Californios to ruins and ushered in the beginnings of the modern city.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Although some Californios staged a short-lived rebellion in September 1846, many others submitted to the U.S. takeover.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
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