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Rancho Little Temecula was a Mexican land grant in present-day Riverside County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Pablo Apis.〔Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco〕〔 The grant was one of the few held by indigenous people.〔 The grant is south of present-day Temecula and is bordered on the north by Temecula Creek. At the time of the US patent, Rancho Little Temecula was a part of San Diego County. Riverside County was created by the California Legislature in 1893 by taking land from both San Bernardino and San Diego Counties.〔(Mexican Ranchos in Temecula Valley )〕 ==History== Pablo Apis (1792–1854) was born a Luiseño and at age six was among the first indigenous people baptized at the Mission San Luis Rey.〔 Apis learned to read and write in Spanish and eventually rose to a position of leadership in which he was the principal spokesman for the local Luiseños.〔 After the missions became secularized in the 1830s, more indigenous people came to live in Temecula, an outpost of Mission San Luis Rey. Apis was one of the Luiseño leaders who fought to keep the Californios from taking control of the mission. Apis was imprisoned for a short time in 1836 by Pío Pico, at that time administrator of Mission San Luis Rey, for objecting to Pico's management of the mission.〔(Pablo Apis )〕〔Leland E. Bibb,'' Pablo Apis and Temecula'', The Journal of San Diego History, Fall 1991, Volume 37, Number 4〕 In 1843, Apis was given the Temecula area, including the established village center, by Father Jose Maria Zalvidea, a priest briefly in control of the former mission and its lands.〔 Zalvidea appears to have undertaken an initiative to grant native peoples their village lands—other such grants made by Zalvidea include Rancho Guajome and Rancho Cuca. Apis applied for formal ownership of the one-by-one-half-league Rancho Little Temecula grant in 1845 in return for his assistance to the mission. In 1847, Apis was a participant in the Temecula Massacre.〔Tom Hudson, Sam Hicks, 1970,''They Passed This Way: Tales of Historic Temecula Valley at the Crossroads of California's Southern Immigrant Trail'', Temecula, CA, Laguna House〕 With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Little Temecula was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,〔(United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 55 SD )〕 but American settlers were not in favor of ''any'' indigenous people owning land, and used a variety of procedural tactics to impede the claim's progress.〔 Apis died between 1853 and 1855 before the Commission had decided its fate. In 1856, Isaac Williams, the holder of Rancho Santa Ana del Chino to the north and the parent of grandsons of Apis, helped carry the Little Temecula grant through the court, which decided possession in favor of Apis's daughter and Williams's wife, Maria Antonio Apis.〔 Williams died the same year. In 1872, Louis Wolf, pioneer storekeeper of Temecula, acquired the Apis grant.〔Stern, Norton B., ''King of Temecula Louis Wolf'', Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1976, pages 63–74〕 The grant was patented to Pablo Apis in 1873.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844–1886 )〕 In 1873, Juan Murrieta, Domingo Pujol and Francisco Zanjuro went in together to buy the grant.〔 Two years later, the San Diego County Sheriff forced the indigenous people from their homes in Temecula and led them to what is now known as the Pechanga Indian Reservation.〔 In 1904 Walter L. Vail, already a successful ranch owner in Arizona, started buying ranch land in the Temecula Valley; buying Rancho Santa Rosa, Rancho Temecula, Rancho Pauba and the northern half of Rancho Little Temecula. 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「Rancho Little Temecula」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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