Aftermath of Native American Revolt
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Toypurina, a Gabrielino-Tongva Indian shaman, was baptized with a group of others at San Gabriel Mission. At the time of her baptism, she was imprisoned at the mission, awaiting punishment for helping organize a revolt there in 1785. Father Miguel Sanchez,who baptized her, was one of the people she tried to kill in the uprising. He gave her the name Regina, meaning queen.
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