Pimuu Nga

The Santa Ynez River flows through the mountain country of the Chumash. On Tequepis Creek near its junction with the river stood the Chumash village of Teqepsh. Spanish missionaries founded Santa Inés in the valley in 1804, drawing Chumash people into the mission system. In 1824 a revolt began at Santa Inés after the whipping of a Chumash worker and spread to neighboring missions, a determined act of resistance to colonial rule.