Editing Mission San Buenaventura (section)

===Mexico===
[[File:Fernando Librado Portrait Chumash.jpg|thumb|[[Fernando Librado]], a [[Chumash people|Chumash]] [[North American Indigenous elder|elder]] and master ''[[tomol]]'' builder was born at the mission in 1839.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=John R. |date=1982 |title=The Trail to Fernando |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j17p1td |journal=Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology |volume=4 |pages=132–37}}</ref>]]
After its independence from Spain, in 1834 the Mexican government issued a [[secularization]] decree, divesting the friars of administrative control over the missions. In 1845 Mission San Buenaventura was rented to Jose Arnaz and Narciso Botello and was later sold illegally to Arnaz.

The mission did not fully escape the impact that the [[Mexican–American War]] of 1846–1847 had on California. On January 5, 1847, while on its way from [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]] to [[Los Angeles]], the 428 men-strong [[California Battalion]], under the command of [[U.S. Army]] [[Major (rank)|Major]] [[John C. Fremont]], managed to disperse an armed force of up to 70 enemy [[Californios]] near the mission.