In some accounts of California history, the state's native people were pastoral pacifists who led an idyllic communal existence before the arrival of the Spanish. This view of history suggests that the native population meekly submitted to the missionaries; active resistance (or at least violent resistance) was a trait learned by the Spanish over several generations of contact. This misreading of history, perhaps motivated by the narrator's ideology, may have at its root the fact that the resistance to the Spanish occupation was not, initially, an organized resistance. Unlike the Native groups of the American East Coast or central Mexico, the Aboriginal population of California did not organize politically into tribes or “nations” that spanned multiple settlements. The “tribal” names assigned to California's native groups derive from modern ethnological investigations rather than from anything recognized by the natives themselves. For the most part, these modern names represent linguistic groups, along with reconstructed village names or other geographic names. For example, the Shasta people are named after the mountain, rather than the mountain being named after the “tribe.” The mountain itself is named for trapper Peter Skene Ogden, who named a southern Oregon peak "Sastise" after a native guide. In 1841, the United States Exploring Expedition mistakenly applied the name to the California volcano. Despite the lack of a cohesive political structure, some California natives actively resisted the imposition of the mission system from the beginning. The first riot occurred just six years after the first mission was founded in San Diego. In the autumn of 1775, several neófitos—discount......middle of paper......, the raids never completely stopped, and after 1835, the remaining natives were once again devoted to banditry. The natives of the Valley continued to torment the ranchos until they too were swept away by the gold rush. Estanislao left the Valley on August 24, 1834 and returned to Mission San José. Here he thrived, teaching others the Yokut language and culture, until his death on July 31, 1838. The Stanislaus River and Stanislaus County were named in his honor. According to legend, Estanislaus' raids were sudden, usually involved a trap, and ended without any result. loss of human life. To authenticate his work, he sometimes used the sword to cut out his initial: "S." In this way, Estanislao may have served as partial inspiration for the fictional character Zorro, an outlaw who defends the people from tyrannical officials, created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley..