Toypurina

Toypurina (1760-1799) was a Tongva medicine woman and leader. She planned an attack against the Spanish colonists and missionaries who were taking over her people's land.

 1785 rebellion 
Toypurina's people were very angry at the Spanish for treating them bad.

Toypurina and some other people involved in the attack were tried. She said that she hated the priests and white men for taking over her people's land.

 Later life 
Toypurina was forced to be baptized at Mission San Gabriel. Later on, she married a Spanish soldier named Mañuel Montero and had three kids with him. However, history experts are not sure whether she married because she accepted the Spanish way of living or as a way of protecting herself from mission life. She died at age 39.

 Art 
Toypurina is famous because she represents Native American female resistance to European rule. There are many murals of her in the Los Angeles region.

Category:1760 births
Category:1799 deaths
Category:History of Los Angeles
Category:Native American people
Category:People from California