Native California Hero’s of the Miwok Confederation Teleguac, Estanislas and Yolosko

By Guy Nixon

Teleguac aka Chief Jose Jesus was one of California’s na-tive freedom fighters. Living through an extremely turbulent period in time where everything was put into chaos by climatic disasters and invasions by other races to the very foundations upon which the tribes were based, he would not only survive but forged a future for his people. This unique leader was also chosen by an animal that protected him in numerous battles and who’s presence brought many tribes together in common cause creating what can best be described as the Miwok Confedera-tion. His life’s story inspired the fictional California Hero we call Zorro but the real story is even more fascinating than the fiction. The real history of California Natives is almost com-pletely unknown yet it shaped the history in so many ways that it merits being brought out for all to learn.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796094190

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Copyright © 2020 by Guy Nixon (Redcorn).

Art by Jill Nixon Kearney

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dedicated to the Warriors who defended their homelands and freed as many of their people from slavery as they could.

Table of Contents

Historical Context

Teleguac and the Chatholic Missions

The Tribes at that time

Ko Kruk selects Teleguac

Organized Resistance

John Sutter the feud with Vallejo and General Micheltorena

Fremont and Company H

Battle of Wokitto-oosew

The Raid in El Dorado County

The big Conference with Coppa Hembo and Jose Jesus

Jose’s daughter Pokela’s marriage to John Murphy

Indian Jim and the descendents

The Authors experience with the family and the tribe

Bibliography

Other books by the author

The story of Teleguac aka Hoza Ha-Soos aka Jose Jesus is one I have wanted to write for many years. I have listened to the tales of his from early childhood and later in my research of him and that period of history found that these tales were true. So while I could have done a strict biography of this man, it would not have done justice to his achievements and the real meaning of his existence. In order for the reader to more fully understand why these people did what they did you need to have an understanding of how they thought. This requires some history of what had happened before then including the dramatic shift in climate as well as the ideology / mythology of the (Miwok people).

Even the term Miwok we use today is not a actual reality for the people we are talking about in that time period. They were in fact several tribes each with a unique history and different tribal politics, customs and vital differences that the reader would need to know to fully understand what happened and why. For these reasons I believe that you need more than the strict biography in order to have the context required to understand this Native California Hero.

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The tribes in Northern California in the early 1800’s were not coming out of a particularly stable set of conditions. Tribal boundaries and populations had in the very recent past been decimated. We have no real idea who was where before 1543. That was when Bartolome Ferrer (also known as Bartolme Ferralo) took the Spanish ship the La Victoria at 100 tons into the Sacramento Valley. It just so happened that he showed up when a huge flood was happening. So we know the date. The tribes in this region have numerous tales of the Great Flood and how many native people died and we now know this happened in the winter of 1843.

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Ferralo was in Monterey Bay measuring 2 feet of snow along the shore only to be followed by what we now call an (Atmospheric River) of incredible amounts of warm rain for several weeks. The result of this weather system were that many of the herds of elk and deer in the lower elevations were decimated — exaggerated by the fact that many had migrated to lower elevations to get down out of the incredible snow only to then be caught in a massive flood. That Ferralo documented sailing his ship around the Sutter Buttes just north of present day Sacramento California —giving us an approximate depth of the water there means that everything form Manteca to Chico was probably under water in this flood. Besides the herds of elk and deer being decimated analysis of the grinding rocks has reviled that these tribes like the Paiute and Washoe were cultivating a species of bunch grass we called wild rye (recent genetic analysis indicates that this species was being domesticated for well over 800 years) and its importance in these tribes food stores is only now being realized. So between the flood and the low deep snow this crop was also severely reduced. These tribes populations were only beginning to recover from the 1543 sever winter when in 1807 global climate took a turn for the worse. 1807 was markedly cooler than previous summers as recorded by the Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Chinese world wide from 1807 on —this was probably due to the sun having less output but then a series of volcanic eruptions took this