Toypurina was a Kizh indian medicine woman from the Jachivit village.
16 Facts About Toypurina
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Toypurina is notable for her opposition to the colonial rule by Spanish missionaries in California, and for her part in the planned 1785 rebellion against the Mission San Gabriel.
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Toypurina recruited six of the eight villages whose men participated in the attack.
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Nicolas Jose approached Toypurina, who was widely renowned as a wise and talented medicine person and whose brother was the head of her village.
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Toypurina agreed, and contacted leaders of other villages to convince them to join the revolt.
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Toypurina accompanied them to encourage their will to fight; she was unarmed.
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Someone had betrayed them to the Mission guards, and the participants and ringleaders, Toypurina included, were captured.
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When questioned about the attack, Toypurina responded in a stinging statement that became famous: she participated because.
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Toypurina was banished from Mission San Gabriel and sent to the most distant Spanish mission.
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Scholars have debated whether Toypurina's marriage was a sign of her accepting Catholicism and Spanish ways, or whether the marriage was one of convenience.
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Toypurina has become a symbol to Californians and other Americans of Gabrielino resistance to the missions.
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Toypurina is a central figure among California Native women who protested against Spanish colonialism.
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Toypurina lived within a matriarchal power structure in which women were at the center of a tribe's ritual and spiritual life.
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Toypurina is portrayed in a portrait at the center of the work of Art, flashing a defiant stare and proud posture.
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The memorial was dedicated to Toypurina, and conceived as a reference to the nearby San Gabriel Mission's historical archway.
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Toypurina is strongly influenced by his mother's teaching him the ways of her people.