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History :
Profiles in Mojave Desert History
Father Joaquin Pasqual Nuez
From: Spanish and Indian place names of California
Las Animas Benditas
Of Las Animas (the souls), which lay between
San Gabriel
and the country of the
Amajaba (Mojave) Indians,
we find the story in Fray
Joaquin Pasqual Nuez's diary of the expedition
made in 1819 by Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga, to
punish the marauding Amajabas, who had murdered
a number of Christian natives.
The Moraga party arrived at a point "about a
league and a half from Our Lady of Guadalupe
of Guapiabit. We found the place where the
Amajabas
killed four Christians of this mission
(San Gabriel), three from San Fernando, and some
gentiles (unbaptized Indians). We found the
skeletons and skulls roasted, and, at about a
gun-shot from there we pitched camp. The next
day, after mass, we caused the bones to be carried
in procession, the cross in front. Padre Nuez
chanting funeral services, to the spot where they
had been burned. There we erected a cross, at the
foot of which we caused the bones to be buried
in a deep hole, and then we blessed the sepulchre.
We named the spot Las Animas Benditas (The Blessed Souls). May they rest in peace!
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Expedition of Father Nuez
Father Joaquin Pasqual Nuez accompanied the soldiers and kept a diary. On November 25th the expedition camped at a village called Guapiabit (Las Flores ...
Descending the Mojave River
Moraga and Fray Joaquin Pasqual Nuez renamed the place Las Animas Benditas de Atongaibit, (12) and the Mojave River was renamed Rio de las Animas ...
Spanish Explorers in the Mojave
Fr. Hermengildo Garces · Don Gabriel Moraga · Fr. Joaquin Pasqual Nuez. Juan María Antonio Rivera Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Francisco Silvestre Vélez ...
Old Skeletons and New Trails
Expedition of Father Nuez. One such military expedition actually refers to the village of Topipabit. In 1819 Lieutenant ... Jedediah Smith Crosses the Desert ...
Indians Raid the Settlement
It was the Mohaves who left the trail of bodies which Father Nuez discovered on this very stretch of road in 1819. There were other hostile Indians who could ...
Timeline of History of the Mojave Desert
1819 Nuez, Fr. Joaquin Pasqual accompanies Moraga into Mojave Desert the Moraga party on a punitive expedition against the Amajaba (Mojave) Indians.
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