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The ''Pobladores'' ("townspeople") of Los Angeles refers to the 44 original settlers and 4 soldiers who founded the city of Los Angeles, California in 1781. When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secular settlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the ''Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias'' and the ''Instrucción'') to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.〔Nunis, Doyce B., Jr. ''The Founding Documents of Los Angeles: A Bilingual Edition'', 73-109 and 117-129.〕 Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the ''pobladores'' was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish ''castas'' (castes). The'' castas'' of the 22 adult ''pobladores'', according to the 1781 census, were: *1 ''Peninsular'' (Spaniard born in Spain) *1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain) *1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) *2 ''Negros'' (blacks of full African ancestry) *8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black) *9 ''Indios'' (American Indians) ==Rediscovery of the ''Pobladores''== William M. Mason, historian of Los Angeles and early California, uncovered the ethnic richness of the Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles through extensive research. Mason, one of three founders of the Los Angeles Historical Society, authored six books and several articles regarding the early history and cultures around Southern California and he is credited with helping to uncover the ethnic facts about the original families of Los Angeles. The official foundation date of Los Angeles is September 4, 1781, when tradition has it the forty-four ''pobladores'' gathered at San Gabriel Mission along with two priests from the Mission and set out with an escort of four soldiers for the site that Father Juan Crespí had chosen over a decade earlier. El Pueblo de La Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanish for The Town of the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.〔http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi03b.htm〕 The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, African, and European descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society."〔Rios-Bustamante, Antonio. ''Mexican Los Ángeles'', 43.〕 Other settlers from Mexico, Central and South America, Asia, Europe, and the United States would follow in the decades to come. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Angeles Pobladores」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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