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
Andres Pico was a Californio statesmen and acting governor of Alta California, and Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
But thousands of people have been making music in and about L.A. for hundreds of years — Native American, Spanish, Mexican and Californio music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
More often, new arrivals got bitten by the Spanish- and Mexican-culture bug, distilled and mythologized for them by the 1884 romantic novel “Ramona,” a kind of Californio “Romeo and Juliet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
He had just learned that a Christian Indian, named Raymundo el Californio, had left the mission at the head of about 30 or 40 other Indians in pursuit of fugitive Christians on the other shore.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook
At UCLA, when she finally learned about the Californios, she was “outraged” and questioned why her beloved high school history teacher “didn’t teach us this basic thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Before the Civil War, some Californios and residents from the American South agitated again and again to divide the state in half — Union sympathizers in the north, Southerners and slavery supporters in the south.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
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
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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