Editing Buena Park, California (section)

=== Spanish era ===
[[File:San Gabriel Mission circa 1832.jpg|left|thumb|Many villagers from [[Juyubit, California|Juyubit]], which was located a present-day Buena Park,<ref name=":0" /> were brought to [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel|Mission San Gabriel]] in the Spanish era (pictured).<ref name=":2">{{cite web |last1=Heizer |first1=Robert E. |title=The Indians of Los Angeles County |url=https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/calbk/007.pdf |access-date=January 16, 2021 |publisher=Southwest Museum |archive-date=December 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212161351/https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/calbk/007.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
The Spanish established the nearby Mission San Gabriel in 1771. Hundreds of villagers from Juyubit were brought to the mission for [[conversion to Christianity]] and to work as laborers on the mission's grounds.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=Relocations and Rebellions: Tracing San Gabriel Mission's Migrant History And Its Effects On Local Communities |url=https://research.pomona.edu/lahp/files/2017/12/hist31_f2017-group_6.pdf |access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref> Many of the villagers died quickly, with the high [[Spanish missions in California#Death rate at the missions|death rate at the mission]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Guinn |first=James Miller |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu81AQAAMAAJ |title=History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs: Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present |date=1907 |publisher=Historic Record Company |pages=56–66 |language=en |type=Digitized eBook |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223065902/https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu81AQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> and three of every four newborns dying before reaching the age of two.<ref name=":17">{{Cite journal |last=Singleton |first=Heather Valdez |date=2004 |title=Surviving Urbanization: The Gabrieleno, 1850–1928 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1409498 |journal=Wíčazo Ša Review |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=49–59 |doi=10.1353/wic.2004.0026 |jstor=1409498  |s2cid=161847670}}</ref>

Dissatisfaction with the poor conditions at the missions led to a revolt in 1785–1786 led by [[Toypurina]], a [[Medicine man|medicine woman]]. Villagers from Juyubit were involved in the revolt, which did not succeed in ousting the Spanish.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54669648 |title=Reassessing revitalization movements : perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands |date=2004 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |others=Michael Eugene Harkin, American Anthropological Association. Meeting |isbn=0-585-49966-7 |location=Lincoln |page=7 |oclc=54669648}}</ref> A few years after the revolt, a woman from Juyubit, Eulalia María, was baptized at the age of six. She became a [[Godmothers|godmother]] to as an adult before her death in 1818.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pérez |first=Erika |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020173046 |title=Colonial intimacies : interethnic kinship, sexuality, and marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885 |date=2018 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-6083-2 |location=Norman |pages=86–88 |oclc=1020173046}}</ref>

Spanish settlers began to establish larger settlements on [[ranchos of California|rancho]]s by land grants made by the King of Spain. [[Manuel Nieto (soldier)|Manuel Nieto]] of the [[Portolà expedition]]s received a grant in 1783, which was divided by his heirs into five separate ranchos in 1834. One of them, {{convert|46806|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Rancho Los Coyotes]], included the current site of the City of Buena Park. The rancho's adobe headquarters lay on what is now Los Coyotes Country Club's golf course.

The area was transferred from Spanish authority to Mexican rule in 1822 and ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the [[Mexican–American War]]. California was granted statehood in 1850.