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	Mission Santa Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In response, the Mission was, as far as can be discerned from available sources, the first California mission to come under armed attack by local natives.
		On the night of December 14, 1793, Mission Santa Cruz was attacked and partially burned by members of the local Quiroste tribe who inhabited the mountains to the east of Point Año Nuevo.
		The attack was purportedly motivated by the forced relocation of native Indians to the Mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mission_Santa_Cruz (701 words)

	QuirosteAttack1793.html
		Nearly two years (1) of armed resistance on the part of members of the Quiroste tribe preceded the attack, which was probably the first extended resistance against the Spanish in the entire San Francisco Bay Area.The Quiroste tribe, an Ohlonean group, was situated around Año Nuevo and the mountains to the east.
		Charquin was baptized at Mission San Francisco's outstation, San Pedro, on the eighteenth of November, at the age of sixty.
		In December of 1793, after a raid on the Quirostes by Spanish soldiers recaptured fugitives from Mission Santa Cruz, the mission was attacked by the Quirostes.
	www.indiancanyon.org /QuirosteAttack1793.html (1304 words)

	Historic Sights at Point Lobos
		A diver using historic hard hat gear, not too different from that used by Japanese Abalone divers, makes a foray into murky, cold water.
		The Rumsien, Quiroste, and other coastal Indian groups ate abalone, and use the shells as tools and decoration.
		The name "abalone" was suggested by the shape of the shell, it comes from the old Spanish word for "ear"
	www.lumigenic.com /photo/articles/HistoryWeb/PtLobos.html (929 words)

	@Pacifica, page 4
		Here are excerpts from their diaries ; the first words ever written in Pacifica, as they rested in camp on the shore of San Pedro Creek (near the present day site of Safeway).
		On November 18, 1791, the Indian leader Charquin of the Quiroste tribe of the Ohlonean group, famous for leading the attack on Mission Santa Cruz in 1793, was baptised at the Mission outstation of San Pedro now known as the Adobe Historical Site, on Linda Mar Blvd. Pacifica.
		After the California Missions were decommissioned, circa 1830, the Mission Outpost at San Pedro Creek was torn down and rebuilt into the homestead house of the Sanchez Ranchero.
	www.hallman.org /pacifica/page4.html (968 words)

	GORP - New Almaden Mine - Native Californian Trails
		Controlled by the Quiroste tribelet, the Almaden mine was the principal source of this mineral.
		Skeletons and stone implements found near the working face of the tunnel indicate that there once was an untimely cave-in.
		Unlike specialized Pomo chert drill makers or Gabrieleqo soapstone pot designers, no specialized miners class developed among the Quiroste working here.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/wildernesspress/hik_nativca4.htm (514 words)

	History unearthed: Tour examines county’s roots By RAMONA TURNER SENTINEL STAFF WRITER October 13, 2003
		The Quiroste were the subject of a historic tour conducted Sunday as part of the 18th Annual California Indian Conference.
		The two-hour tour around New Year’s Point was one of three that capped the three-day event, which used workshops and vendors to shed light on the plight of native Californians —; past, present and future.
		Hylkema noted that the Quirostes’ diet of elk shows that at one time, the sand dune area that now exists was once a grassy field set farther back from the ocean.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2003/October/13/local/stories/05local.htm (494 words)

	SpecialBooks.com provides unique historical and first person accounts on such diverse topics as Custer's Last Stand, ...
		On October 22 they had the first recorded encounter between Europeans and Ohlone people.
		They encountered Quiroste Ohlone at the village of Mitenne near today's Point Año Nuevo.
		The Ohlone people cheered the explorers and showed traditional hospitality by offering food and tobacco.
	www.specialbooks.com /dolores.htm (342 words)

	INDIANS of CALIFORNIA - Missionization
		However, there is one excellent site, Mission Santa Cruz and the Ohlone and Yokuts Indians, which goes into great detail on the founding of Mission Santa Cruz and the lives of the California Indians residing there.
		An allied site discusses the attack in 1793 on the mission by members of the Quiroste tribe, an Ohlonean group living in the area of Año Nuevo and the mountains to the east.
		This attack was probably the first extended resistance against the Spanish in the entire San Francisco Bay Area.
	www.cabrillo.edu /~crsmith/anth6_missions.html (1208 words)

	Cabrillo students dig for Native American artifacts By RACHEL GALLEGOS SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT July 28, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Cabrillo College archaeology technology excavation class spent three weeks, with their last day of field work today, finding evidence believed to be of the local Quiroste tribe from around their time of contact with Don Gaspar de Portola in October 1769.
		Their main finds are chert, a silicate-based stone like flint that flakes regularly, and lithic flakes, pieces of stone that chipped off while making tools.
		The Quiroste village, part of the large Ohlone language group, was situated around Año Nuevo and the mountains to the east.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2004/July/28/local/stories/06local.htm (640 words)

	Archeology students explore southcoast dig -- Coastsider: Half Moon Bay and Coastside news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		What they found was pretty prosaic: stone flakes, broken obsidian spearheads and shell fragments.
		But they are believed to be artifacts of the local Quiroste tribe from 250 years ago:
		The Spanish described a valley with one large house in the middle of the village, spacious enough to fit the entire tribe of 200.
	coastsider.com /comments/113_0_1_501_M (1064 words)

	cinnabar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nobody else used jade for ritual objects, for burial, especially wrapped up in cinnabar, the red powder, except in these two places."
		Native Ohlones traveled to what became known as the New Almaden Mine -- controlled by the Quiroste tribelet (pronounced KEER-os-tay) -- via Los Alamitos Creek to gather cinnabar, which they traded as far away as Puget Sound, Washington.
		In 1784, the Ohlones consecrated the walls of the Franciscan Mission, Santa Clara, with sacred mohetka.
	www.glimmerdreams.com /gemjourneys/cinnabar/history (2865 words)

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