Ineseno

The Ineseño were Chumash people of the Santa Ynez Valley, where villages lay between the coastal mountains and the lands farther inland. Spanish missionaries founded Santa Inés in their country in 1804, bringing local people into a system of religious instruction and labour. In 1824 an uprising began at Santa Inés after a Chumash visitor was beaten by a soldier. Resistance spread to the missions of La Purísima and Santa Barbara, becoming one of the largest revolts against the California mission system.